Acer Plans PDA Phone, GPS Devices

Written by Adam Gosling

Monday, 05 June 2006

After making its way to a top five position in the global PC  market, Taiwan-based Acer now has its sights set on the GPS and PDA markets, with more devices scheduled for release in the second half of this year. According to DigiTimes, Acer plans to add two Taiwan-based ODM makers, Wistron and Compal Communications, to its supplier list for GPS and PDA devices which will significantly increase its supply capabilities. Acer currently only uses Lite-On Technology for contract manufacturing of its handheld devices. Acer has said previously that intends to bolster its handheld revenues to US$1 billion a year and to do this it plans to launch two GPS devices - one a handheld model, the other for in-car-use. There’s also a GPS-enabled PDA and a PDA/phone planned according to the DigiTimes report. Wistron is believed to be lining up the contract to make Acer's new handheld GPS device, while Lite-On will manufacture the in-car GPS device. Compal Communications is expected to become the contract manufacturer for Acer's new PDA phone, which contradicts earlier reports that Quanta Computer would get the business. Related news items First Windows 6 Palm In Australia -12/09/2007 HP Goes iPaq Mad -06/09/2007 ASUS A686/696 GPS PDA -23/08/2007 Acer To Introduce 5 Centrino Pro Notebooks -17/05/2007 BMW-Inspired Acer Aspire -03/05/2007 Newer news items Motorola Mobile Office Has Barcode Reader -02/05/2007 Q1 #2 -19/03/2007 HP Will Also Offer Draft n Notebooks -09/11/2006 Hard Times Are The Only Increase For PDA Makers -07/08/2006 O2 Beefs Up XDA Atom For Business Users -28/06/2006 Older news items BlackBerry Shows Its Fun Side -09/05/2006 PDAs CONTINUE DECLINE: IDC -05/02/2006 WORLD’S SMALLEST MULTIMEDIA PDA-PHONE -09/11/2005 COLOUR YOUR PALM FOR $179 -12/10/2005 LIMITED EDITION JAM -01/08/2005 Tag This Now: