I have to say that Android is making big moves right now. It has fast become one of the most talked about mobile phone OS’ and is finding its way into other products. One of the products that many people have been waiting for Android to turn up in are netbooks. If you have your heart set on the spiffy Acer AOD250-1613 10.1-inch netbook with the dual boot Andorid/Windows XP OS you can pre-order yours now.
If Acer’s Aspire 1410T (aka the Timeline 1810T) took your fancy but you’re a multitouch convert, how about a convertible tablet version of the same ultraportable notebook? macles have spotted the Acer Aspire Timeline 1820T, ostensibly the same 11.6-inch 1,366 x 768 notebook with an Intel CULV 1.4GHz Core 2 Solo SU3500 processor and 2GB of RAM, but gaining a rotating screen hinge and a multitouch-capable touchscreen.
Acer look to be following in the footsteps of HTC, with the company rumored to be planning to shift much of its focus from Windows Mobile to Android. According to the usual, shadowy “industry sources” that hang out in the bars DigiTimes frequents, Acer intends at least half of its new handsets in 2010 to be based on the Google-led Android platform.
The Acer AspireRevo AR1600-U910H nettop is one of those slick little systems that offers all the performance you need for general computing needs in a tiny form factor that is easy to hide inside your entertainment system or on a desk. The little machine is now available for purchase on Newegg.
Acer’s Android netbook has been regular grist for the rumor-mill, with delays tipped, buyer apathy prediced, along with vehement denials from the company themselves. So it’s with no small amount of interest that we read one of the first reviews of the Acer Aspire One D250 Android – as the netbook appears to have been labelled – courtesy of ePrice. They found the AOD250 to be “semi-finished”, with Android perhaps unsurprisingly causing many of the issues.
Acer’s F1 smartphone was tipped to drop on October 6th by DigiTimes yesterday, and now the company themselves have confirmed that the 1GHz Windows Mobile handset will arrive “within weeks”. In fact, the handset will apparently arrive in time for the launch of Windows Mobile 6.5, itself expected on October 6th, and while they’re being coy on full specs, they have confirmed that retailer Clove’s technical run-down is accurate.
The latest DigiTimes rumors are in, and this time they don’t seem all that unlikely. According to industry sources in Taiwan, Acer’s F1 and HTC’s Leo – both using the Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz chipset – will each drop in Q4 this year, complete with Windows Mobile 6.5. They also finger ASUS and Inventec as developing Snapdragon-based smartphones, though those are unlikely to hit full-scale production until the first half of 2010.
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Last year people took to the skies in order to try to clinch Acer's Want One? Win One competition; this year the stakes have been raised to an Acer Aspire Timeline notebook capable of an estimated 8hrs of runtime from a single charge. The new Eight Hour Contest is calling for would-be Timeline winners to shoot a video explaining what they'd do with all that runtime; the public will vote and the most popular will get not only the ultraportable but a trip to CES 2010 and more.
Acer is a big sponsor of the Ferrari F1 team and as such, the company has been making special edition Ferrari notebooks for a while. The thing most of the Ferrari editions have in common is improved performance and a big price tag.
Here we go again with another week in review for your perusal. A mystery Android-powered MID tipped up this week looking very much like those renderings of the Apple tablet to my eyes. It’s cool to see android showing up on so many devices. Logitech unveiled an update to the coolest racing wheel ever, the G25, called simply enough the G27. The new wheel promises more accurate force feedback effects and keeps with the slick clutch and gated shifter we loved from the G25.
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