Acer serves up smartphone offerings

ACER HAS finally announced the bunch of phones we've been expecting for some time now.

The Taiwanese outfit showed off smartphone offerings at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with its Tempo-branded devices.

The firm bought Taiwanese smartphone maker E-Ten last year. Since then it was only a matter of time before the aggressive company delivered its own phones.

Acer said it expects to become one of the top five handest makers within five years and that it has the marketing muscle to achieve this dream. It intends to launch eight phones this year.

Here come the specs of four of the phones the firm has been showing off in Barcelona. It kept prices under its hat but said it cheapest offering would be about €50.

The M900 sports a Qwerty keyboard, a 3.8-inch screen,with HSDPA (High-Speed Download Packet Access) support, built-in GPS and a 5-megapixel camera.

The F900, comes with 3.8-inch screen. It has a 3.2-megapixel camera, and HSUPA for faster uploading and support for Wi-fi, GPS, FM Radio, voice recorder, voice command, and expandable memory.
The X960 has a smaller 2.8-inch VGA touchscreen, embedded GPS, a VGA 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera with flash

The DX900 is the first Dual-SIM Smartphone to support both 3.5G (HSDPA) and 2.75G (EDGE) SIM cards It sports a 2.8 inch touchscreen, a 3.2-megapixel autofocus camera with flash and expandable memory. µ