Acer Smartphone Expected
Posted by Sam Churchill on January 28th, 2009Acer, maker of the ultra-affordable Aspire One Netbook, has announced its plans to enter the smartphone market at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona on February 16.
Boy Genius Report (above) first reported it.
But the description of Acer’s contribution on the MWC website may shed light on what to expect: “Now Acer enters the Smart Handheld market with an exciting range of easy-to-use devices designed to offer phone capability, simple one-hand usability, and complete connectivity.”
A few websites are already speculating on what OS the Acer smartphone will run. The Boy Genius Report is fairly certain it will run Windows Mobile, yet Stuff.tv says Google’s Android is behind the curtain, due to Acer’s part in the Open Handset Alliance.
Smartphones are good business for AT&T (and Apple). Om Malik says the iPhone subsidies cost AT&T about $1.3 billion in 2008, but AT&T added 2.1 million new wireless subscribers just during the last quarter. Nearly 1.9 million 3G iPhones were activated during the three-month period, and 40 percent, or about 760,000, were new to AT&T. Malik figures those subscribers need to stick around for more than 10 months (given the Q4 average revenue per user of $59.59) to offset the subsidy.
It’s also worth noting that Microsoft is expected to unveil Window Mobile 6.5, with a completely revamped look, around the same time, notes Venture Beat.
source : dailywireless.org
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