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Oops, they did it again.
In a week of back flips by electronic giants, making it look more like a gymnastics class than a product announcement, Acer have come out to cut-and paste their earlier comments made this week about the eventual phasing out of their notebooks.
the tech giants have just issued a statement designed to revoke comments made by Acer’s Sales Manager Lu Bing-hsian, who declared their soon to be released tabs range was “aimed at phasing out netbooks. That’s the direction of the market.”
In a swift u-turn yesterday, Acer confirmed “the company will not phase out netbooks in favour of tablets.”
“Acer recognizes that the computer market is changing. This range of devices available to users is getting wider and tablets are just another piece of the mosaic.
Therefore, they will find their space next to netbooks and notebooks,” the Taiwanese maker said.
Acer ‘s Tablet OS devices when released later this year will include a 7-inch and 10.1 model running Android and although tipped to contain Intel’s Sandy Bridge processor, this is now not going to happen, they have confirmed.
A Windows 7 model could pre-empt the Android version, although this has yet to be confirmed.
The phase out also seems a little pre-emptive since they just launched its Aspires 522 multimedia netbook along with a slew of other models.
Acer chief Gianfranco Lanci said late last year that he anticipates that Acer will get between 10 to 20 percent of the Tablet market with 12 months and will take the lead from the iPad later on.
This latest backtrack comes as laptop maker Asus also revoked its promised June release for the Asus Eee Pad range, powered by Honeycomb, the notebook makers last week revised the date, citing the CES announcement two weeks prior as a ‘mistake.’
