Acer being ambitious. I post this because both HTC and LG have made similar comments about breaking into the top five. All three are at a similar stage of development and the units mentioned are typical.
Acer aims to ship 20 million smartphones annually in 2012-2014
DIGITIMES Research - quarterly shipments data
Yen-Shyang Hwang, Taipei; Steve Shen, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 17 June 2009]
Acer aims to ship 2-2.5 million own-brand smartphones in 2010 and expects annual shipments to increase to 20 million units in 2012-2014, making it one of the world's top-five smartphone vendors with a 6-7% market share, according to Aymar de Lencquesaing, president of Acer's Smart Handheld Business Group (SHBG).
There is still room for the further development in the smartphone segment given that only 300 million out of the world's four billion handset users are smartphone subscribers, Lencquesaing stated.
Acer forecasts global demand for smartphones will grow 15% annually over the next five years, Lencquesaing added.
Acer's branded notebook and netbook product image and its partnerships with telecom carriers to promote netbooks can be recruited for pushing its smartphones, Lencquesaing said.
In other news, Acer officially released four models of its Tempo-series smartphones, the Acer F900, M900, X960 and DX-900, in the Taiwan market on June 16. The devices will be distributed in Taiwan through an agreement with Weblink International, Acer said.
The company plans to launch six new handsets as well as one Android-powered phone in the second half of this year, according to Roger Yuen, Acer's SHBG vice president of Asia Pacific.
Acer also plans to roll out TD-SCDMA-enabled smartphones targeting China's handset market, Yuen revealed. |
