Oct

2010

Android Rant – Is Android really open source? Absolutely, and here’s why

by Dustin Karnes
tagged Acer, Android, AT&T, carriers, gnu, HTC, huawei, manufacturers, moto, motorola, open, Samsung, source, Sprint, t-mo, T-Mobile, tmo, tmobile, Verizon, vzw

You probably heard about Steve Jobs losing another few thousand brain cells over Android in an earnings call last week. He went off on a bit of a tangent, saying a bunch of things about Android, and how they’re not really open, even though some people think they are. He also called Tweetdeck “Twitterdeck”, and [...]

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Oct

2010

Acer planning to dual-boot all of their dual-core netbooks with Android

by Tyler Cunningham
tagged Acer, Android, dual boot, dual-core, Netbook, windows 7

We’re not exactly sure why, but Acer has announced their plans to begin dual-booting all of their dual-core netbooks with Windows 7 and Android. Acer’s argument is that the addition of Android doesn’t hurt anything, but I’m not exactly sure how adding Android as a secondary OS on a Windows 7 netbook helps anything either. [...]

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Sep

2010

The Acer Liquid E Ferrari unveiled and coming to… India

by Chris Moor
tagged Acer, Ferrari, Liquid E

Talk about variety. Variety is one of the most beautiful things about Android. Instead of having just one phone, coming in one color, on one carrier, Android has variety, and a lot of it. So much of it, that now, if you want a phone that has Ferrari designs, you can get one. Yeah, that’s [...]

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Sep

2010

Acer planning to launch 3 tablets in 5, 7, and 10 inch sizes

by Steve Ginter
tagged 10 inch, 5-inch, 7 inch, Acer, Android 3.0, tablet

Acer is looking to join the growing Android tablet market with 3 new devices coming in the first quarter of 2011. They are expected to run on Android 3.0 and will be available in 5-inch, 7-inch, and 10-inch screen sizes with their 5-inch panel targeted towards the market between smartphone and tablet PC. I wasn’t [...]

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Sep

2010

Acer Liquid Metal Android phone confirmed, dated

by Dustin Karnes
tagged 2.2, Acer, Android, froyo, liquid metal

There have been rumors flying about for Acer’s new Liquid Metal smartphone, said to come full-flavored with Android 2.2 (Froyo). The guys over at Electricpig have gotten in contact with a representative for Acer UK, who has confirmed the handset. The rep also let loose that the device will have a metal backplate (hence the [...]

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Sep

2010

Acer phone ‘Liquid Metal’ details and pics

by Chris Moor
tagged 2.2, Acer, Android, froyo, liquid, metal

Details and photos of an upcoming phone from Acer have emerged through the Russian website Habrahabr. The phone, said to be called ‘Liquid Metal’, has a 3.61-inch capacitive touchscreen WVGA display and features a brushed metal casing, hence the name. Regional availability and release dates are TBA but head past the break for a short [...]

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Aug

2010

Acer chairman predicts iPad market share drop in favor of Android tablets

by Tyler Cunningham
tagged Acer, Android tablet, JT Wang

Acer chairman JT Wang is predicting that Apple’s iPad market share will drop from the nearly 100% it enjoys now to roughly 20-30%, largely due to the emergence of Android tablets. He is also predicting that iOS, which runs on the iPhone, will continue to decline in favor of the open platform Android OS. The [...]

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Jul

2010

PC World highlights upcoming Android tablets

by Dustin Karnes
tagged Acer, Android, Cisco, Dell, LG, slate, tablets

Over at PC World, there’s a pretty cool slideshow up, showcasing up and coming Android tablets. Included in the slideshow is the upcoming Cisco Cius tablet, LG’s upcoming tablet, the Dell Streak, and more. So, if you want to get your geek on with some previews of what’s going to be big in the Android [...]

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Jul

2010

Acer to release Dual-OS netbook with Android and XP

by Dustin Karnes
tagged Acer, Android, dual boot, Google, microsoft, Netbook, OS, windows, xp

According to a very, very short (did I mention how short it is?) article at digitimes, Acer is expected to be releasing a netbook that runs two Operating Systems – Android and Windows XP. The Aspire One AOD 255 would retail for $370 US, and will be shown at the 2010 Taipei Computer Applications Show [...]

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Jul

2010

Acer Stream Launch Date Confirmed for August 9th

by Chris Moor
tagged 2.1, Acer, Android, eclair, froyo, stream

After the usual pre-release leaks, and tidbits of information here and there, Acer finally came out and finalized a launch date for their upcoming Stream phone earlier. The device sports Android 2.1, a 1 GHz processor, 512MB RAM, 3.7in screen, and HDMI 720p out among other features. Personally I think that this device will have [...]

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