Starting all the way back in December of 2008, Acer let it be known that it was working on a self-branded smartphone. Then, this past June, Acer up and joined the Open Handset Alliance and said that it would release its first Android device by Q4 of 2009. Well what do you know. Q4 is here and Acer has actually put its money where its mouth was with the announcement ... Read More

Online retailer Expansys is now offering the Android powered Acer A1 for pre-order (in German). Back in June, when Acer joined Android's Open Handset Alliance(INFO), it promised that its first Android handsets would be available in Q4 of this year. This move by Expansys seems to suggest that may indeed happen. There are some questions, though. Expansys has the device listed as running on the Android 2.0 platform, which is mislabeled ... Read More