Acer announces Android phone due in Q4

As it joins Open Handset Alliance


1 June 2009 18:20 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

We already kinda mostly knew this, but Acer has made its Android plans extra official in a press release revealing its Android handset-making ambitions.

The PC and smartphone maker has revealed it has signed on the line for an Open Handset Alliance membership, in a move the company says "demonstrates its support for Android as an open mobile platform and its commitment to Android's commercial success".

Acer says its first Android-based smartphone is expected to launch in the fourth quarter of this year.

Observers might hope it is a little more exciting than the company's smartphone launches from earlier this year, that were arguably lack-lustre revamps of E-Ten devices, following Acer's buy-out of the phone company.
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