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Acer Drops Multiple Windows Mobile Phones at MWC

Feb 16, 2009, 3:02 PM by Eric M. Zeman
updated Feb 16, 2009, 3:02 PM

Today Acer announced at least four new touch phones running Windows Mobile Professional. All share many features, including quad-band GSM/EDGE and tri-band HSDPA, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and microSDHC support. They also have a custom widget UI on top of Windows Mobile.

M900: This phone has a 3.8-inch 480 x 800 WVGA display, accelerometer and FM radio, with a 5-megapixel camera, fingerprint reader and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
F900: The F900 has the same 3.8-inch display as the M900, but loses the keyboard and some camera resolution to fit in a 12mm-thin body.
DX900: This phone has dual SIM slots, allowing for two separate phone numbers. It also has 3G a 3 megapixel camera, accelerometer, and a 480 x 640 VGA display.
X960: This simpler smartphone focuses on navigation, and has a VGA display, 3 megapixel camera and a 3D user interface.

The company also released preliminary info on three new phones coming later in the year:

F1 (code name): Windows Mobile 6.5, 3.7-inch display, accelerometer, 5 megapixel camera, all in a 12mm thin body.
L1 (code name): A smartphone with a feature phone price (as cheap as free with contract). Features slider design with numeric keypad, GPS, touch screen, and multiple color options.
C1 (code name): Affordable like the L1. Standard slab form factor, with jog wheel and multiple color options.

source: Microsoft / Acer

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Overmann

Feb 17, 2009, 10:36 AM

Need CDMA version...

acer makes reliable PCs, let's hope they do good with phones. But we need CDMA version!

Azeron

Let's see how this works on GSM first. Once the kinks and bugs are worked out then let them drop a CDMA version. It's not as though most manufacturers do not drop GSM first anyway.

terryjohnson16

Feb 16, 2009, 3:37 PM

Again no AWS support

Yawn.

Azeron

So...no go with T-Mobile and it is yawn?

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