The Acer F1 is almost here. The second Acer Snapdragon smartphone, a 3G and 3G+ (HSDPA) Windows Mobile based smartphone (running WinMo 6.5), will be released on October 6, the same day Microsoft will be releasing Windows Mobile 6.5 - and pre-orders for the F1 (for U.K. residents) are being taken now.

The Acer F1 features a 3.8" TFT WVGA touchscreen with a motion accelerometer, a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, and built-in FM radio, 3.5 mm headphone jack, Wi-Fi, and GPS. The device also comes with Microsoft's latest mobile web browser upgrade, Internet Explorer Mobile 6.

As for memory, the Acer F1 will come with only 256 MB out of the box, but a microSD card slot supporting as much as 32 GB is built-in. The included Lithium-ion 1350 mAh battery is reported to hold power for about 5 hours of talk-time and 400 hours of standby time.

Snapdragon is the state-of-the-art Qualcomm 8250 1GHz processor.

The DX900 supports both 2G and 3G connections. Acer calls the it the first dual-standby and dual-SIM smartphone the world has ever seen. It's an HSDPA Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone with a 2.8" display screen. Looking at the list of countries in which the device has been released it seems the only place that doesn't have it is the U.S.

Coming soon to Asian and European stores will be the Acer X960. It's also a Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone, but it has a keyboard where the DX900 does not. The X960 also sports a better digital camera (though only slightly better), with 3.2 megapixels to the DX900's 3.0.

Also in the works is an Acer smartphone that runs on the Google Android OS.

Don't hold your breath for any Acer smartphones - Tempo, Google, or otherwise - to come your way if you live in the United States though. Apparently Acer smartphones won't be coming to America until 2010.

HTC Magic: The second Google Android powered smartphone from HTC and the first from Vodafone, the Magic is smaller than the inaugural Google Phone, the HTC T-Mobile G1 and will first be distributed into hands overseas (U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Spain). Downsides? It doesn't have a physical keyboard, nor does the touchscreen keyboard operate in landscape mode.

Also unveiled from HTC, the HTC Touch Diamond2, HTC Touch Pro2, and the T-Mobile G2.

Acer M900: The business set will like this latest Windows Mobile smartphone, with its large 3.8" touchscreen, vast messaging capabilities, and--get this!--fingerprint scanner for cutting-edge security.

LG Arena: It was only a matter of time before we saw a 3D interface, and here it is, looking like the onscreen Rubiks Cube of menus.

Nokia E55: With its own take-off of the BlackBerry Sure-Type keypad.

A common thread for a lot of the devices unveiled this year is the built-in 5-megapixel camera--though the ones in the new Nokia N86 and Samsung Omnia HD sport 8 megapixels, and the Sony Ericsson Idou, with its enhanced touchscreen, has 12.1 and a sliding lens cover. So there!