The Acer Guy

Hi everybody and welcome back to another very rare installment from the ever-so-slightly-hectic world of The Acer Guy.

In the four years I’ve been living online I’ve discovered that writing an article here is like preparing for a wedding. You have to know that “she’s the one” and that you want to go though with it of course, yet every now and again, when you’re under the kind of pressure we are day in-day out to satisfy her never-ending needs, you often experience first hand that love has some wonderful ups and colossal downs.

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OK. Confession time. My contributions to this part of the site are in direct proportion to the amount of spare room I have on my desk which more or less sums up the atmosphere over at Acer HQ. Today I got a sneak preview of the Gartner results for 1Q 2010 and there’s very little between the top two brands (Acer and HP) and also I’ve seen what’s coming (and named most of it too) and can actually say that after a long stretch of CPU brags and first to market technologies, the PC market is about to become very interesting. It’s a battle and we’re definitely closing in which explains why I feel like I’ve aged 5 years this year alone!

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January – and the best part of February for that matter – was one hell of a month.

It started out of course with the Global Kickoff in Rome where we had to kit the hotel out, prepare all promotional material including stands, showcases, no fewer than 5 videos, too many press releases to count and a make sure everyone’s presentation was squeaky clean.

Then immediately afterwards, we had to start working on the 7 new smartphones due to be presented at MWC in Barcelona. Seven? I thought there were only four new ones… That’s right – three got canned but only after I’d written the web texts. Grrrr…

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I’m going to go on record here by saying that the Acer Liquid is more than a valid alternative to the iPhone. It’s just as slick, has a better screen resolution, and if anything is slightly faster, but the killer is the Android Marketplace which lets you set it up just the way you want it, which means I’m still Tweeting and Shazamming but I’m also chatting on Gtalk and Skype while getting live updates on my friends’ Social Network sites. What’s more the Acer Liquid multi-tasks unlike the iPhone and some of the simple but oh-so-geeky apps available free of charge mean I have a much better chance of the battery lasting all day unlike it’s flashier rival. Rival? It costs between €150-€200 /$220-$300) more than the Acer Liquid…

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After some serious trials and tribulations – it was much easier than I thought in the end – TheAcerGuy makes its debut on Facebook. According to Facebook’s TOS, a Page has to have 25 fans before you can register the name (facebook.com/theacerguy) so the first thing I’ve got to ask you is to head off [...]

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I recently noticed an interesting new e-mail signature from Acer employees from the US with links to a Twitter and Facebook pages, and being the inquisitive type, just had to click and find out more. Dig a little deeper over on the Marketwire site and you find that Acer US is offering K-12 scholls the [...]

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I was looking at my stats for 2007 (in actual fact I only started measuring in April) and I noticed something very particular. In 2007, 75% of you were first-time visitors. Three out of every four people who stumbled on this site in 2007 came through some form of search engine. The current monthly average [...]

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What better way to end the week-end than with the thought that everything is just as you need it to be.

I’m not talking about life and family although last week’s trip to the hospital left me with a flickering warning light inside my mind.

No I’m talking about technology.

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