The phrase "acquiring a device" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the process of obtaining or purchasing a device, such as a smartphone, tablet, or computer.
Example: "After much research, I decided that acquiring a device with better specifications was necessary for my work."
Alternatives: "obtaining a device" or "getting a device."
It's not long before you acquire a device called the Address Disruptor, a tool that seems to rewrite the code governing certain elements of the world around you.
There also exists a growing cohort of people who desire and deserve EPWs for mobility but who have not been able to acquire a device because of severe impairments in motor, sensory, or cognitive functions that have precluded them from passing a clinical assessment or because of inadequate resources to allow them to practice driving [ 14– 16].
Device churn is very high; employees are acquiring a new device approximately every 18 months.
New Yorkers might remember Modo from its risque advertising campaign that encouraged 20-somethings to keep up with the city's night life by acquiring a $99 device that resembled a fancy pager.
For example the pain, the stress, distress and disappointment that they faced during PT/INR self-testing, taking anticoagulant drugs, acquiring a coagulometer device, visiting an anticoagulation clinic/laboratory as well as communicating with their doctors, nurses, pharmacists and the insurance companies in relation to their anticoagulant therapy and its monitoring.
When Khan escapes from a 15-year exile to exact revenge on Kirk, the crew of the Enterprise must stop him from acquiring a powerful terraforming device named Genesis.
The American Museum of Natural History had just acquired a sophisticated device called a variable-pressure scanning electron microscope, the latest improvement in that technology.
In addition, the health care company Johnson & Johnson announced that it would acquire a medical device maker, the Micrus Endovascular Corporation, in a cash-for-stock exchange worth about $480 million.
Moreover, it is widely reported in the media that Al Qaeda, for example, has in the past sought to acquire a nuclear device to detonate in a western city and the 9/11 attacks and bombings in Bali, London, Madrid and Mumbai should leave no doubt whatsoever that Al Qaeda would use such a device if they could get their hands on one.
