| p>Released in December 2009, and averaging around | | | | microSD. |
| the £330 mark for a SIM-free version - the | | | | Data is processed using Class10 GPRS and EDGE at |
| Liquid is Acer's First Android Smartphone - and | | | | 236.8 kbps. 3G runs on HSDPA at 7.2Mbps and |
| perfectly fits the market slot it was designed for, | | | | HSUPA at 2.0 Mbps. It is on the WiFi that his handset |
| outperforming other androids (such as it's sluggish HTC | | | | comes into its own. For UK users who don't want to |
| Hero competitor) in keyboard response, background | | | | pay large connection bills, this will be a pleasant thing to |
| applications capability and it's tendency to satisfy | | | | know. The handset does have Bluetooth and MiniUSB. |
| smart-phone needs. | | | | As they tend to say in the industry - the megapixels |
| It's a quadband, working on three channels on 3G. This | | | | do not make the camera - however the 5Mp camera |
| it does quite happily, even with multiple applications | | | | in this handset more than holds its own, with |
| open in the background. Although slower than we | | | | Geo-tagging capability, autofocus and LED flash plus |
| thought it would be, there is no huge delay between | | | | VGA video at 20fps. There is no secondary camera. |
| starting apps and being able to use them, and it zooms | | | | The operating system is Android OS v1.6 (Donut) and |
| along quite happily while surfing the web. | | | | despite the fact that the pre-announcement hype led |
| The phone measures 115 x 62.5 x 12.4 mm and | | | | us to believe that the handset would offer 1Ghz speed, |
| weighs (in phone terms) a fairly hefty 135g. The | | | | at the slightly slower 768MHz the Qualcomm |
| outside is not quite as glamorous as you can find on | | | | Snapdragon 8250 processor chugs along quite happily |
| other handsets, slightly plasticky, but not unpleasant. It | | | | as we surf and run application in the background at the |
| comes in a variety of colours - black, red and white. | | | | same time. |
| The Acer Liquid beats most other handsets with its | | | | If it is important to know where you are - the phone |
| TFT capacitive touch sensitive display - it shows 480 | | | | does offer GPS with A-GPS support, supports Java |
| x 800 pixels in 256K on a large 3.5 inch screen, and | | | | (via 3rd party application) and will play all the common |
| uses the same Acer User Interface we saw before, | | | | sound and video files. It comes with Facebook and |
| with very little difference. It has an accelerometer for | | | | Flickr integration and Pocket Office offering Word, |
| auto-rotate and a proximity sensor for auto turn-off. | | | | Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and PDF viewer. |
| The Liquid has all the usual alerts, includes a | | | | The battery could do with a little more oomph, but if it |
| speakerphone, and a useful 3.5mm audio jack for your | | | | is charged on a daily basis, there is plenty of talk and |
| listening pleasure. | | | | surfing time to be had - up to 400h on standby and up |
| Call records and phone book, including photocall are | | | | to 5h talktime. |
| practically unlimited on its internal 256MB RAM, 512MB | | | | This is a good phone, we liked it a lot. |
| ROM and 32GB max additional storage in the form of | | | | Our rating: 4. |