Acer Working on Several Android Devices

Written by Gizmo

Thursday, 30 April 2009 07:15

Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service

Acer is already working on several different devices using Google's Android operating system and software, and plans to launch a smartphone using the software later this year.

"The entire industry is looking at Android," said Acer president and CEO Gianfranco Lanci at the company's first-quarter investor's conference in Taipei on Wednesday.

"We are testing Android on a lot of different solutions," he said. "We are working on an Android solution for the smartphone, [but] I think it's too early to say if we're going to see Android on a netbook in the near future."

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