Acer to launch new smartphone by year-end or early 2007

Acer will return to the handset market by launching a smartphone later this year or early in 2007, company chairman JT Wang said at an investors conference last week.

The smartphone, which is outsourced to Compal Communications, will be marketed as a BlackBerry handset for the SOHO and small- and medium-size enterprise (SME) sector, Wang said, without elaborating further.

Acer to launch new smartphone by year-end or early 2007