www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Acer intends to introduce four smartphones, the A1, C1/E1, F1 and L1, at the September-end and in Q4′09. The A1 is an Android-powered model, while the other three are based on Windows Mobile platform.
The production has been outsourced to Taiwan-based Compal Communications and Inventec Appliances. Compal will manufacture the L1 on an ODM basis, while rolling out the F1 and A1 on an OEM basis, who also indicated that Inventec will turn out the C1/E1 smartphone on an ODM basis.
Another OEM/ODM handset maker Arima Communications may join Compal and Inventec to compete for Acer’s smartphone orders in 2010 as the company has also stepped into the development of smartphones based on Android and Qualcomm platforms.