Nice start for today as another leak makes an appearance and this time, it is concerning Acer’s beTouch E130. The new Acer’s smartphone certainly has a nice look which can almost be seen as Blackberry’s usual look. But it doesn’t come with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard like most phones seem to be sporting these days.

It comes with a full QWERTY portrait keyboard. It has a 2.6-inch touchscreen display. It works on Android 1.6 and runs on a 416MHz processor. It comes with 256MB of RAM and 512MB of ROM.

The phone comes with a 3.2-megapixel camera. It also has an FM receiver, WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS. Slated to be a low-to-mid-range smartphone, the Acer beTouch E130 does not come with the most complicated and expensive features. It does come with Acer’s custom user interface, and the Acer Spinlets music application. As of now, we know that Acer plans to release the beTouch E130 at the beginning of August this year.

Good news for those who loved the Liquid E smartphone from Acer, the brand has announced a follow-up to the model which will be called Liquid E Ferrari Special Edition.

The new design is for those who live life on the fast lane and maybe for those who own a Ferrari. On a serious note, when Acer first released the Liquid E smartphone, while we loved the design, many opposed to it. They said it’s too business and professional-like. So to mix up and jam it a little, Acer will now released the redesigned version into a Ferrari body but it will still be a smartphone though.

The new Acer Liquid E Ferrari Special Edition will be released with a 3.5-inch high-definition (WVGA) capacitive screen. It comes with a 5-megapixel camera with auto-focus and geo-tagging functions. It is powered by Qualcomm snapdragon 8250 processor and runs on Android 2.1 Eclair Operating System. As of now, Acer has yet to release the price and release date of the Acer Liquid E Ferrari Special Edition smartphone.

Today we decide to take a look at Acer’s new phone, the neoTouch P300 which was recently unveiled at the MWC event. The neoTouch P300 phone feels moderate with the Windows Mobile 6.5.3 OS. We are hoping that later on this year, there would be a nice upgrade on the phone to Windows Phone 7.

The device works on the Qualcomm 528MHz CPU. It comes with 256MB of RAM and 512MB of ROM. It has a 3.2-inch WQVGA which is of course, a low resolution display. The neoTouch P300 works great on many applications and process fast too. There are quite a number of third-party applications that currently run on the Windows Mobile 6.5.3 OS but not on the Windows Phone 7. We wished though that the costs of getting this phone would be lesser.

The Acer neoTouch P300 will be available at the price of around $400. The smartphone is available for preorder from Clove as of now and shipment will be sent off later on this month.

The Acer Liquid is a mobile phone powered by a 1GHz Snapdragon processor. It features a WVGA screen (800 x 480 resolution) touch screen display that measures 3.5-inch. The display also supports four flat, touch-sensitive buttons: home, back, menu and search. It also has a 5MP camera with auto focus and Geo-tagging, HSPA connectivity with 7.2Mbps speeds high speed packet access internet browsing; Wifi Synching that lets users sync files between a computer and the Acer Liquid phone; and supports the Android 1.6 Donut build. The Liquid also features an internal GPS antenna, Bluetooth® 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate and A2DP for wireless stereo headsets, Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi ®: IEEE 802.11 b / g, 3.5 mm audio jack 3.5 mm audio jack, 512 MB ROM / 256 MB RAM memory and utilizes the Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz network bandwidth. It is powered by a rechargeable Lithium-ion battery (1350 mAh) that provides users with up to 400 minutes of standby time and up to 300 minutes of talk time. The phone measures 115 x 62.5 x 12.5 mm and weighs 135 g. The Acer Liquid was announced in October 2009.

Specifications
The Acer Liquid is a quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE mobile phone powered by the Android Donut operating system and provides users with a user interface (UI) including access to entertainment/bookmarks and Spinlets – which is a free music/video streaming function that can be shared with friends/family through web/email. The phone features a microSD ™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible) slot that provides memory expandability and is a handset that provides users with access to social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Picasa, Flickr, and other Social Media/Networks. Available in Red, White or Black color options, the Liquid is supported by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset and comes with a camera (with ISO levels) that will be able to tag photos and pictures with location information from the built-in GPS receiver. The phone is also designed for Internet surfing and browsing, and allows high speed Web access through HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) mobile networks.

Display
It also features a 3.5-inch touchscreen display. The touchscreen display comes with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels and supports 256K colors. The phone’s display comes in the form of graphical with it being a TFT capacitive touchscreen that can support 262K colors.

Design
This Acer phone measures 115 x 62 x 12mm and weighs 135g.

System
This cell phone from Acer is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHz processor. It works on the Android operating system version 1.6.
Camera
There’s a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash on this phone. The camera comes with Geo-tagging and autofocus.

Power
There’s a Li-Ion, 1350 mAh battery in this phone. Battery life consists of 5 hours talk time and 400 hours stand-by.

Network & Connections
It has Wi-Fi and 3G. This mobile phone features Bluetooth (v2.1 with A2DP) and Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) and 3g (HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2.0 Mbps). This block-form phone supports 2G network such as GSM 900/GSM 1800/GSM 1900/GSM 850.

Memory
In this phone, there’s an internal memory capacity of 512MB. For more memory, users can use its microSD card slot as it can support of up to 32GB.

Phone Features
The phone supports playback for MP3, AAC/AAC+/E-AAC+/AMR-NB/WB/WB+, WMA/WMAPro, Ogg-Vorbis, AC3, MIDI music files and H.263 at 4CIF (704 x 480 resolution; 30fps/ 704 x 576; 25fps) or H.263+/MPEG4/H.264/WMV9 (VC-1) at D1 (720 x 480; 30fps/720 x 576; 25fps).

Other Features
CPU of this cell phone is Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1GHz while OS is the Android version 1.6. There’s an accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and a proximity sensor for auto turn-off. There’s also an ambient light sensor. The phone comes with an internal antenna. The Liquid comes in the dimension of 115.0 x 62.5 x 12.5 mm and weighs 135g.

Reviews

“Overall we were impressed with our early play with the Acer Liquid – it bodes well for Android that this level of hardware integration has appeared already this early in the OS’ life. We just need to see how much it will cost and how well the developer community will react to all these new options to play with. (Techradar, 2009)

“We’re still not entirely convinced by the Acer’s physical design, and we wish they’d done more to the smartphone’s UI too.  Arne gives them credit for bundling the excellent RoadSync Exchange client  – which goes some way to making up for their choice of Android 1.6 rather than 2.0, which has native Exchange support – along with some of their own apps for streaming media, improved local media control and social networking. In the end, the Liquid A1 scores highly for its performance and its stability, though it lacks some features many consumers might reckon are becoming essential: an LED flash, for instance, and an integrated Twitter client.  It’s expected to hit shelves across Europe within the next few weeks.” (Slashgear, 2009)