Hard competition on smartphone business, move acer to prepare entering this business.
Announced on ITvoir, Acer, Computer maker from Taiwan propose to release smartphone in the first quarter of 2009. It will be UMTS enabled and touch screen like iPhone. And will cost EUR 500 according to Acer CEO Giafranco Lanci in an interview with German financial magazine Capital Investor.
With their own brand, Acer want to be big player in the industry and will recruit another 500 new worker to handle this division.
Acer first smartphone planned to ship in West Europe and Russia then to Asian marketplpace in Taiwan and Hongkong. But unsure this product will brought to US.
Acer will compete agains the big name in this industry including RIM, HTC and Apple.
0 comments:
Post a Comment