During mid-2008 Acer announced plans to purchase E-Ten and make an entry into the smartphone market. Well, fast forward about six-months and it seems that the first Acer branded smartphone will soon be announced.

Sadly, it may not come as an exciting announcement because it looks like that first handset is going to be a re-branding of an already existing Glofiish handset. That’s right, rumor has it that the first Acer smartphone will be nothing more than the Glofiish DX900.

We first saw E-Ten announced their Glofiish X610 and V900 smartphones about six months back, however until now there has been very little in terms of details. Well it seems that E-Ten has re-announced both models however they have still not announced an exact release date, leaving it as they will be available soon.

The Glofiish X610 is a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE handset and features a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen display, 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, FM radio, Wi-Fi and GPS. The X610 has 128MB ROM and 64MB SDRAM, will be running Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and powered by a 400MHz SC3 2442 Samsung processor.

Tired of bringing two phones everywhere you go? Your prayers may have just been answered by E-TEN’s latest offering, the Glofiish DX900. Most people who carry two separate phones, one for work and one for personal, know how much of a hassle that can be, especially since they probably also carry other devices such as more »

A recently surfaced (albeit blurry and slightly unclear) image is showing off what appears to be an upcoming dual-SIM smartphone from E-Ten, dubbed the Glofiish DX900. Overall the DX900 has a similar appearance as the V900. Feature wise it is expected to offer the two SIM card slots, as well as feature quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE, triband more »

Acer’s acquisition of Asian smartphone maker E-Ten has put them in a position to start manufacturing their own smartphones very soon. And they will, as confirmed by Acer President Gianfranco Lanci, saying that their company will release its first Windows Mobile powered smartphone by the end of this year or early next year. They’ll be more »

While the deal has not been made official just yet, Acer has announced having entering into an agreement to purchase E-Ten. For those unfamiliar, E-Ten is a mobile phone maker, who has been getting well known for their Windows Mobile-based Glofiish smartphone lineup. It is being reported that the deal is going for $290 million more »

Just yesterday we showed off some pictures of the upcoming Glofiish V900 in both black and blue and now another version, this time in red has turned up. The pictures, which feature the V900 in red take away some of the style that the black version has going for it but still offers a nice looking phone. Of course like other posted pictures, its possible that someone just had a little phone with Photoshop, you can decide for yourself.

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The Glofiish phones seem to be getting nicer and nicer and the V900 is no exception. With some chrome accents around the phone, a nice large touchscreen display and a minimalist approach with buttons it appears to have a solid design going, and at this point that will have to be sufficient because there are not that many solid details know yet.

The V900 is rumored to have onboard TV support to include DVB-H, DVB-T, T-DMB, and DAB. We can also see what appears to be a front-facing camera that should come in handy for video conferencing, which would also lead one to believe that the V900 will be a 3G handset.

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