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.

Toshiba recently introduced the TG01 smartphone and from the looks of it, Toshiba appears ready to challenge some other touchscreen-based handsets. Toshiba is referring the TG01 as a device that will “revolutionize the mobile entertainment world.”

To begin with, the TG01 features a large 4.1-inch WVGA 800×480 resistive touchscreen display, but that is not where it stops. Also included in the feature set is built-in 3G support, Wi-Fi, GPS, A-GPS, a microSD card slot as well as support for DivX and flash.