Acer launches new Android Smartphone Acer Liquid

Acer India launches their first Snapdragon 1GHz and OS Android1.6 based 3G smartphone with 3.5 inches full Touch screen. With a captivating square shaped looks giving you ultimate new mobile experience. The exterior of the phone is “refreshing”, curvy and closer to a media player, with white, red and black color options. At a size of 115×64×12.43 mm, the Liquid weights 135 g only and features a 3.5″ WVGA (800×480 pixels) capacitive touchscreen. WVGA is yet also new for Android devices and was just enabled by Google with the recent introduction of Android 1.6 code-named Donut. The autofocus camera on the back supports 5 MP and can be used for photos and videos.

Acer Liquid features a WVGA touchscreen measuring 3.5″ and it supports HSPDA 7.2Mbps / HSUPA / GSM. It has a 1350mAh battery and also features an FM radio. The phone has an inbuilt memory of 256MB which can be expanded through a micro SD. The phone also supports various multimedia functions such as audio – video streaming, mobile browsing, social media connectivity and Nemo player along with a full-screen-preview task manager. The phone although does not offer social networking connectivity.

Software and OS details

It has a customised UI over the standard Android 1.6 OS, but there are only few differences to the stock version, like a modified dialer and camera app. It has all the Google Apps like Gmail, Google Maps, Market, YouTube and Google Talk even though it is not a Google branded “Experience” phone.

The Handset comes with smart integration of Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Picasa and Flickr in the address book, with realtime notification of status or content updates.

Hardware Configuration

Includes WVGA touch screen of the size 3.5”, 1350mAh Battery, 256MB internal memory with microSD support, 3G, Wi-Fi, FM radio(Stereo), USB connectivity and HSPDA 7.2Mbps / HSUPA / GSM Support.

This mobile costs arount Rs. 24,990 Indian Rupees.