Get ready Barcelona. Acer sent out a press invite this week letting the world know that it’s using this year’s Mobile World Congress to launch their new smartphone line.
Acer bought Taiwanese mobile manufacturer E-Ten last March; they made a line of Windows Mobile phones called Glofiish that pretty much nobody in North America owns. Mobile analyst Sascha Segan tried to review one once, and it gave him an electric shock. That pretty much put him off E-Ten. Acer, of course, has a much better reputation for quality.
In April, Acer president Gianfranco Lanci said he was aiming for smartphones to make up 10 percent of his company’s revenue, and that he would look for carrier partners to sell his phones. Combined with Acer’s strength in PCs in the US, that may mean their devices are coming to these shores. We’ll have more details on Feb. 16.
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