Acer is on board to launch a suite of new Android smartphones and one new Windows Phone 8 device next year, according to a report from
DigiTimes and confirmed by
The Register. The company's president,
Jim Wong, revealed the plans, saying that Acer has six new smartphones in the pipeline for 2013. The higher-end phones will use Qualcomm dual-core processors, while the lower-end models will use MediaTek processors. Wong elaborates to note that five of the size new phones will run Android, with a lone Windows Phone 8 device
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The number and variety of accessories available to all CE dealers has greatly increased exponentially in recent years. Ballooning mobile device sales accounts, in part, for the crowded peripherals market. But whatever the reason, dealers are grateful for a broader choice of options, and they say they are constantly on the lookout for new products, technologies and ideas that will stimulate foot traffic and boost their bottom lines.
New accessories such important business drivers heading into 2013 because, for one, pricing competition within the most popular accessories categories has put strong pressure on margin points. “Margins are thinner nowadays,” said Simon Sedek, buyer at Electronic Express, Nashville, Tenn. “They used to be better. But there is more competition.”