Acer to Launch eReader, Chrome-based Netbook, Tablet & App Store This Year

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Acer is about to have an extremely busy year. While no actual products have been named yet, we heard that Acer wants to launch a couple of new gadgets this year besides its regular plethora of computers, laptops, phones and other useful devices.

According to Bloomberg, Acer is developing both a tablet and an eBook reader and it’s also focusing on the implementation of a personal application store. Furthermore Acer is ready to take the bull by the horns and we might see a Chrome OS-running netbook coming out before the year’s end.

The app store and the eReader should be here in the first half of the year while the Chrome OS netbook will only be available at some point in the third quarter. But Acer expects to sell 1 million Chrome OS-based computers this year which is a very bold move. The Acer tablet might be announced only at some point after Apple unveils its tablet and Acer might “work either in the Windows world or in the Google’s definite OS space.”

Acer is the world’s second-largest computer vendor but that’s apparently not good enough for them. The company wants to improve its current performance and it’s ready to enter some markets that belong, at least so far, to Apple and Amazon.

Apple has the App Store which became a model for many of its rivals. Acer will develop its own store in the near future although there’s no clear indication of how it will work and what we will find inside. The report suggests that Acer will offer Android, Windows Mobile and Chrome OS applications, which sounds particularly interesting considering that both Google and Microsoft already have their own app stores too.

Amazon on the other hand is the king of content for eBook readers, a position that’s not likely to concede without a fierce battle. Acer is ready to develop its own eReader and it will definitely have to work hard to impress the masses. We already have all those Kindles out there and the nook is not too shabby itself. Not to mention that CES 2010 revealed lots of upcoming eReaders, some more interesting than others.

Naturally you can expect us to cover all Acer’s upcoming gadgets as soon as the company is ready to launch them.