Acer launches its first Android-based mobile handset – the Acer A1
In a Thursday interrogate with Reuters, Aymar de Lencquesaing, leader of Acer’s phone entity, believed that Acer has this week initiated the sale of its first Google Android operating system-based mobile handset – the Acer A1.
Having ventured into the mobile handsets pitch this year, Acer – the world’s No. 2 PC brand – has thus far feigned ten mobile handsets, including the newly-launched Acer A1. The nine other handsets dart the Windows Mobile operating method.
Noting that consumers can gaze onward to a budding number of Android-based Acer handsets in the coming year, de Lencquesaing believed: “There is definitely momentum behind Android. The pace is faster than most would have anticipated one year ago.” He further added that Acer had no objectives of using other operating methods.
Whereas de Lencquesaing confessed that the fast-growing smartphone souk had turn into a virtual combat zone for both traditional handset-makers as well as PC makers – with Hewlett-Packard, Asustek, Dell and Lenovo also venturing into it – he précised that Acer believes a launch of 8-10 smartphones per year as its “sweet spot.”
Toting up that Acer is gazing at a 6-7 percent market share of the smartphone souk in about five years’ occasion, de Lencquesaing also believed that virtually 40 telecom operators had been prioritized by Acer for the sale of its handsets, with roughly ten operators presently involved in the sale of the company’s handsets.
