Acer is starting to ignore Windows Mobile
WHILE IT IS STILL developing Windows Mobile-based smartphones, Acer has shifted its development policy to focus more on Google's Android, reports Digitimes.
Quoting unnamed industry sources, Digitimes said that at least half of new models launched in 2010 will be Android-based.
Apparently Acer has plans to cooperate with its current production partners in 2010, outsourcing Windows Mobile and Android based smartphones to Compal. It will also contract the manufacturing of Windows Mobile handsets to Inventec.
It all seems a bit swift given that Acer's first Android powered smartphone, the A1, will not get into the shops until November.
It also seems odd because the outfit plans to roll out three Windows Mobile models, the F1, L1 and C1/E1, at the end of the year.
However it is a sign of how much Windows Mobile is starting to slip from the consciousness and plans of manufacturers and businesses. µ
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Acer makes mobile phones and PDAs? Who the hell owns one and why would you want one next to players such as HTC?
If HTC was to make this announcement I would get worried, but Acer? I say who cares, as long as HTC makes top of the line WM devices there will always be something available for us (by that I mean people who are not stylus challenged). The rest of you can go ahead and buy iPhones, see if I care.
If you havent heard Acer is an OEM Partner for WM7 ( along with HTC ) so I doubt that they will IGNORE Windows Mobile...
Everyone want to have a go @ WM these days, so know yourselves out ...
Do you do any research, or just make this stuff up based on half facts?
Microsoft was the value of WM. Look at Ericsson, for instance, who thought the word "Windows" would help them. It did not and was skipped.
Windows Mobile has less and less value.
It is as simple as that.