Acer has dapper phone on deck. Benq.

Up-and-coming PC maker Acer is shifting its lineup a bit. At its first-quarter investor relations forum in Taipei on Wednesday, Acer President Gianfranco Lanci said the caller would release its first smart phone–a Windows Mobile device–by the end of this year or pioneer next year, and that smart phones will account for 10 percent of concern revenue. Acer made its interest in the smart phone market very well-defined in March, when , which makes PDA-phones under the brand. At the conference, Acer said E-Ten would transfer entirely to smart phones and away from PDAs, which it has sold in the past. In another change, the fresh Acer smart phone will be sold through wireless carriers, instead of directly to retail, as E-Ten has historically done.

Acer has played catchup to its PC rivals this sometime year, growing organically as well as through acquisition. The house bought U.S.-based Gateway and Europe’s Packard Bell, and now finds itself behind No. 2 Dell with 9 percent of worldwide retail share, according to IDC.

SellyourCell.com CEO Takes Issue with AP story; Says It’s Safe to Sell Your Cell. Benq.

SellyourCell.com, a director in the apartment phone recycling industry, says that perversely to an Associated Press report, it is safe to sell your cell. () October 6, 2006 — The AP article, published latest month, examined enhanced “smart” phones that were purchased from an online auction spider’s web site, then assaulted in a lab with forensic software to discern what secrets they would reveal.

It turns out some of them did reveal a fair shred of data, and experts cited in the article admonished readers not to sell their used cell phones. It is this in the end point that Keith Ori, CEO of SellyourCell.com has a problem with. “It’s just regular sense that selling any device with a high memory capacity such as a home computer or au fait phone online without properly erasing your data is a very bad idea,” Ori says, “The limited point in the article that SellyourCell.com and the wireless recycling industry in general take outflow with is that it’s risky to sell or recycle used cell phones to anyone.

I consumed years on motorola.howardforums.com, the biggest motorola phone forums, and i never once heard of this. Benq.

The ridiculous thing is Motorola started to loose sales because they where using BSD based phones , GNU/Linux demographic is a powerfull batch of buyers with real money. BSD? I have no principle where you got this from, but i doubt there’s any truth in it. I tired years on motorola.howardforums.com, the biggest motorola phone forums, and i never once heard of this.

Also i, and many others have hacked/researched the firmwares of those phones motorola made, which presumably are based on bsd, and we never ever found one succession which said anything like “Regents of California” or something like that. AFAIK the BSD allow does require this, so either they’re in violation of license and changed all the strings, or it’s ascetically not true. Violation of the license is an option too though, since they didn’t included the GPL with any of their later Linux phones too.

With respect to article: there