Acer has officially confirmed the availability of the Acer LumiRead eBook reader in Germany. The company will launch this e-book reader in October 2010, with a speculated price point of €250 or around $316. In case your didn’t know, this gadget supports a 6-inch 800 x 600 pixel E-ink display, Wi-Fi, 3G wireless and a Barnes & Noble content partnership. [Softpedia]

Acer has unleashed their latest 3D-ready DLP projector ‘P1203′ in Australia. Designed for SMB’s and classrooms, this new projector is able to provide 1024 x 768 XGA resolution, 2600 ANSI lumens brightness, 4000:1 contrast ratio and 120Hz refresh rate. It also has a number of connectivity ports including D-Sub, Composite, S-Video, HDMI and Stereo Mini Jack. The Acer P1203 sells for AU$1,699 (about $1,520). [Acer]

According to macles, Acer is going to release the Aspire One D255 netbook as the follow-up to the AOD260. The new model will be powered by Intel’s newest Atom N550 dual core 1.5GHz processor. The AOD255 comes with a 10.1-inch display and a glass splitter like “flake” design. You can also expect WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity.

Acer has recently showed off their first e-Book reader namely the LumiRead. The device sports a 6-inch E-Ink display, a QWERTY keyboard, a 2GB of internal flash storage, a microSD card slot, WiFi, 3G and comes with a built-in ISBN scanner that allows you to create your own wish lists or search for a certain book online. The Acer LumiRead will hit stores in Q3 2010 for unannounced price yet. [Softpedia]

Acer is launching in the UK the 20-inch AT2056 and 23-inch AT2356 KCD displaysm bith with integrated DB-T HD receiver for users to watch HD TV channels. The AT2056 features 1366×768 resolution while the AT2356 offers Full HD 1920×1080. They have 20000:1 contrast ratio, 5ms response time and two HDMI connectors.

Acer’s AT2056 and AT2356 will be priced at GBP200 and GBP250 respectively.

The Acer Liquid A1 was announced just last October and it looks like this first Android smartphone from Acer is coming out soon. For one, it has gained FCC approval and even has AT&T 3G support (850/1900 MHz) now. The Acer Liquid A1 features a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a 3.5” WVGA touch screen display, Wi-Fi, GPS and access to social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

Additional features for the Acer Liquid A1 include a 5MP camera with autofocus and a 3.5mm headset jack. So for all you doubters out there, Acer’s plan to invade the smartphone market seems to be imminent so watch out for it!

It’s no secret that we’re facing down a tidal wave of new netbooks at CES in January, with all signs pointing to Intel unleashing its brand new graphics-friendly Atom N450 chip based on its new-generation Pine Trail platform. So, before we get all netbook’d out, let’s allow ourselves a small amount of excitement at this Acer Aspire One 532 spotted within the bowels of the internet (Acer’s driver pages). A bit of Google work uncovered specs that include an Atom N450 processor with Intel GMA 3150 and a 10.1-inch 1280 x 720 screen. It’s been listed for 299 Euros in one of these random, bean-spilling online stores, so that gives a decent reason to hope that a new generation of Atom won’t mean a major leap in pricing. Is that a whiff of holiday optimism we smell in the air?

The Acer Liquid A1 is now available in the UK market. The company’s first Android smartphone is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor with a 3.5-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen, Quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE and Triband (900/1900/2100) HSDPA, WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and a 5-megapixel camera. FYI, Acer has decided to underclock it to 768MHz in order to prolong the 1,350mAh battery life span. The Acer Liquid A1 is currently in stock at retailers Expansys and Clove, priced at £339.99 ($556) and £328.99 ($538), respectively.

 If you need yet more reason to delay purchasing a current generation netbook, we’re hearing that Acer has eagerly scooped up an order for NVIDIA’s Ion 2 chips, which will eventually be found partnering Intel’s forthcoming Pineview hardware in machines of the future. With Intel now integrating graphics processing and the memory controller into the CPU packaging, the Ion 2 is expected to serve much more like a discrete GPU than the Ion chipset of today. Plans to support VIA processors are also still firmly in place, should you wish to experience the improved graphics processing outside of the realm of Lord Intel.

 Acer loves it some Google. And unless Google’s trying to stamp out your revenue stream, who doesn’t? Now Acer chairman, JT Wang, says that he expects to be first to market with an official Chrome OS netbook — sometime in the second half of 2010 according to DigiTimes‘ sources. In fact, JT says that Acer’s been working on a Chrome OS device since mid-2009. This despite admittedly weaker than expected demand for its dual-boot Android netbook, the Aspire One AOD250. Guess even the Google halo isn’t enough to shoehorn its smartphone OS into a market dominating position on cheap ultra-portables. It’s worth pointing out that DigiTimes‘ moles aren’t saying anything new with the launch time-frame since Google’s target for its gold Chrome OS build has been 2H of 2010 ever since the lightweight OS was announced. Not that the timing matters too much since we’ll likely be seeing plenty of Chromium OS netbooks flooding the grey market long before the second half of 2010.