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Thursday May 7, 2009
Acer: No US Smartphones Till 2010 (Retracted)
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Updated, 5/8/09. Acer emailed us to say they "misspoke" and that they may still be able to launch their smart phone line in 2009. See our new post.

Original post. Acer got off to an enthusiastic start in the smart phone market back in February, but it looks like their plans for freebie Windows Mobile phones are being held up by the usual carrier-related traumas in the US.

Acer's been having a lot of press events for their laptop and notebook lines here in New York, but they haven't said much about their smart phones. So we asked. According to Acer's laptop PR folks, Acer now isn't planning any US smart phones until 2010.

That's disappointing, as they've already started to roll out products overseas and the head of their smart phone division, Aymar de Lencquesaing, has years of experience in the USA. When I spoke to him in February, he said there was some hope that they'd get phones out before Christmas of this year.

Acer's first-half devices are pretty run-of-the-mill Windows Mobile stuff, but they have more interesting products in their pipeline. The company's $500 H2 model, for instance, uses Qualcomm's state-of-the-art 1-GHz Snapdragon chipset and has a 3.8-inch, 800-by-480 touch screen, and they've also said they're experimenting with Google Android phones.

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