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Acer Prepare ‘Rain’ Android phone

acerandroidAcer smartphone more serious business. Apart will launch its first Android-based handsets, Acer Liquid in early December, the computer company is also ready to remove the product with other smartphones in 2010.

Acer says is likely to release approximately 10 Android-based smartphone. “Maybe 8 to 10 devices,” said Aymar de Lencquesaing, Acer’s Head of Mobile Phone Products.

In 2009 this year, Acer’s already released a line of smart phones, but all rely on the Windows operating system. As the trend of rising Android phone up, Acer did not want to lose the opportunity.

“Clearly there is momentum for Android. Development faster than we originally anticipated,” said de Lencquesaing.

Currently, Android has a 3.5 percent share of global smartphone market. While Microsoft’s market share reached 8.8 percent, down from a previous 13.6 percent last year.

Acer itself had no intention of producing many phone models as do other vendors. Their targets ‘just’ mastered 6 to 7 percent of the smartphone market in the next 3-5 years. Year 2010 is estimated, the total number of handsets sold Acer reach 1 million units.

Leave Game Developers Android

ponselandroidSupply games for Android mobile platform will certainly dwindle from Gameloft, one of the largest game developer applications for mobile phones, retreating footsteps of other developers.

The reason the company presented the French game developer is none other because of business factors. According to Alexandre de Rochefort, Finance Director, Gameloft, to develop games for Android is not profitable.

“We have reduced our investments for Android operating system, as well as with several other developers. Until now Google’s operating system has not attracted many consumers,” he said.

This statement is clearly surprising. Because, as is known, the operating system Google’s products so popular due to the nature of the openness of its software based on open source, making it easier for application developers to more freely sparked his ideas.

But the reality is not so. Gameloft and other gaming developers admitted the difficulty to develop mobile games for Android platform. That’s why, they plan to leave the development of the Android mobile phone games besutannya range.

“Game on Android is not as good as the iPhone. Google’s not too smart attract consumers to buy products. In Android, no one who managed to get significant benefits,” said Rochefort.

From the stock iPhone gaming application, Gameloft get 13% share of profits from all sales. While the Android, recognized the executive, is still below 1%. “We can sell 400 times as much on the iPhone than on Android,”.

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