Acer launches its Tempo Smartphone Series

Acer has already proven that it has what it takes to divert from the traditional PC market with the company’s successful Aspire One netbook. Now it wants to prove that it can do the same in the mobile phone market as it launches the Acer Tempo Smartphone series. And boy, they do know how to do it with a bang by announcing not just one, but four new smartphones in the series – the X960, F900, M900, and DX900 with all four touting WVGA touch screen features.

Now this may be a handful of new mobile phones for a starter, but are these devices different from one another? Of the four it’s quite obvious that the M900 and the DX900 are the more promising devices. The M900 is a Windows Mobile phone running version 6.1 while the DX900 has a dual-SIM slot for additional functionality and convenience. Of course, with Windows Mobile 6.1 running on the M900, we don’t have to tell you that you can do a lot of mobile office computing using the phone. The DX900′s dual-SIM slot would let you load both 3.5G (HSDPA) and 2.75G (EDGE) SIM cards. Both the Acer M900 and DX900 would surely appeal to users whose levels of mobile phone usage vary from personal to business functionality.