ACER LIQUID S2 FULL SMARTPHONE SPECIFICATIONS ANNOUNCED

ACER LIQUID S2 QUADCORE 6 INCH 13 MP CAMERA FULL SMARTPHONE SPECIFICATIONS ANNOUNCED

Finally a competitive smartphone from the Acer, it seems that the R & D team of Acer has pulled up its socks and this time they are determined to provide its prospect a descent smartphone which will live up to the name of the company. This smartphone from the house Acer is code named as Liquid S2 which is a perfect combinations of elegant looks and powerful performance, overall a complete package of specifications that will be competing with the likes of Samsung Galaxy S4, HTC One M7, iPhone 5, Sony Xperia Z, LG Optimus G2. Acer Liquid S2 is a 4G / LTE smartphone and it sports a 6 Inch IPS LCD Capacitive Touch Screen with multi touch & Acer's customised Float UI. The display looks brilliant in full HD as it packs in a resolution of 1080 x 1920 Pixels, ~367 ppi pixels density, 16 M Colours. While Acer has also added muscles to this brilliant front panel, this smartphone features a Corning Gorilla Glass 3 Protection. Further Acer Liquid S2 boasts of DTS sound enhancement & stereo loud speakers, now that will take your multimedia experience to the next level. Dimensionally this smartphone measures 166 x 86 x 9 mm (6.54 x 3.39 x 0.35 in), it weighs pleasingly mere 116 gms, Acer Liquid S2 will be available in two flavours viz; Black & Red. Acer has really worked very hard on the exterior of this smartphone. Just beneath the skin of this elegant looking smartphone is a Quadcore 2.2 GHz Krait 400 Processor, Qualcomm MSM8974 Snapdragon 800 Chipset, Adreno 330 GPU, 2 GB RAM. Technically if you are a multi tasker or a gamer or both, in either case you won't regret after buying this smartphone. Acer Liquid S2 will come out of the box with Android OS v4.2.2 (Jelly Bean). The internal memory packed in this smartphone is of 16 GB & further Acer has packed in a microSD card slot that supports upto whopping 128 GB memory card, it totals upto 144 GB (that is huge). The data connectivity aspect generously features Wifi, Wifi Direct, Wifi HotSpot, DLNA, Bluetooth v4.0 A2DP, NFC, microUSB v2.0. For positioning this smartphone is loaded with GPS with support for A GPS & GLONASS. The latest fad in the smartphone market is the camera with higher MP & Acer Liquid S2 has on its rear panel a 13 MP Primary camera with LED ring flash, auto focus, geo tagging. This Primary camera on the rear panel is capable of clicking images of 3840 x 2160 Pixels, take 27 MP Panorama images, record videos of 2160 P @ 24 fps & of 1080 P @ 60 fps. The Secondary camera on the front panel is of 2 MP which can also record HD videos of 1080 P @ 30 fps. This secondary camera can also be used for video chatting & my friend it will be a pleasant experience on this smartphone. Acer Liquid S2 comes with a 3300 mAh Li-Po Battery.

ACER LIQUID S2

ACER LIQUID S2 FULL SMARTPHONE SPECIFICATIONS AT A GLANCE:

• 6 INCH IPS LCD CAPACITIVE TOUCH SCREEN
• MULTI TOUCH & FLOAT UI
• DISPLAY RESOLUTION 1080 X 1920 P, ~367 PPI PIXELS DENSITY, 16 M COLOURS
• CORNING GORILLA GLASS 3
• DTS SOUND ENHANCEMENT
• STEREO LOUD SPEAKERS
• ANDROID OS v4.2.2 (JELLY BEAN)
• QUADCORE 2.2 GHz KRAIT 400 PROCESSOR
• QUALCOMM MSM8974 SNAPDRAGON 800 CHIPSET
• ADRENO 330 GPU
• 2 GB RAM
• 16 GB INTERNAL MEMORY
• SUPPORTS UPTO 128 GB microSD CARD
• 13 MP PRIMARY CAMERA
• LED RING FLASH LIGHT
• 27 MP PANORAMA IMAGES, VIDEOS OF 2160 P @ 24 FPS & 1080 P @ 60 FPS
• 2 MP SECONDARY CAMERA
• 4G / LTE, WiFi (WiFi HotSpot, WiFi DIRECT), DLNA
• BLUETOOTH v4.0 A2DP, NFC, microUSB v2.0
• GPS (A GPS) & GLONASS
• DIMENSIONS 166 x 86 x 9 MM (6.54 x 3.39 x 0.35 IN)
• WEIGHT 116 GMS
• COLOUR OPTIONS BLACK & RED
• 3300 mAh Li-Po BATTERY

DISCLAIMER: THE DETAILS ON THIS BLOG MAY NOT BE 100 % ACCURATE. FOR ANY DISCREPANCIES KINDLY LEAVE A NOTE BELOW. THANK YOU FOR READING.

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ACER LIQUID S1 FULL SMARTPHONE SPECIFICATIONS

ACER LIQUID S1 5.7 INCH QUADCORE ANNOUNCED

Taiwanese PC, Laptops & Tablet giant has revealed another Smartphone in its Liquid Series named Acer Liquid S1 which will be competing with Samsung Galaxy Mega 5.8

Acer Liquid S1 is scheduled to release in Third Quarter of 2013 @ the approx price of 349 Euros / $ 453 / Rs. 25660/-. The Smartphone has a 5.7 Inch TFT Capacitive Touch Screen with Multi Touch & Float UI. The Display resolution is 720 x 1280 Pixels, ~258 ppi pixels density, 16 M Colours, The Dimensions of the Phablet are 163 x 83 x 9.5 mm, weighs 195 gms (6.88 oz) & offers numero uno colour option viz Black. The Phone is a bit heavy & ppi pixels density is not that great (anything above 300 is considered as good), but the rest display specs are good. Now lets look at the technicalities, It holds under the hood a Quadcore 1.5 GHz Cortex A7 Processor, Mediatek MTK 6589 Chipset, PowerVR SGX 544MP GPU, 1 GB RAM. It comes out of the box with Android OS v4.2 (Jelly Bean). Whether you want to play latest games or want to multi task, these specs on such a gigantic display size will be a pleasure. The internal memory of 8 GB is far too less keeping in mind that nowadays some of the games use upto 2 GB of disk space, but the support upto 32 GB microSD compensates for the drawback. The rear features a 8 MP BSI Snapper with LED Flash which will capture your memories in 3264 x 2448 Pixels resolution & can also record HD videos of 1080P @ 30 fps. The primary camera will give better performance in low light also due to its BSI sensor. The front snapper is of 2 MP which is descent enough for video chatting. Liquid S1 also features Wifi, Wifi HotSpot, Bluetooth v3.0, microUSB 2.0, GPS with Support for A-GPS. The power bank has a juice of 2400 mAh.

ACER LIQUID S1

ACER LIQUID S1 FULL SPECIFICATIONS:

• ANDROID OS v4.2 (JELLY BEAN)
• 5.7 INCH TFT CAPACITIVE TOUCH SCREEN, MULTI TOUCH, FLOAT UI
• DISPLAY RESOLUTION 720 X 1280 P, ~258 PPI PIXELS DENSITY, 16 M COLOURS
• QUADCORE 1.5 GHz CORTEX A7 PROCESSOR
• MEDIATEK MTK 6589 CHIPSET
• POWERVR SGX 544MP GPU
• 1 GB RAM
• 8 GB INTERNAL MEMORY (SUPPORT UPTO 32 GB microSD)
• 8 MP BSI PRIMARY CAMERA
• 2 MP SECONDARY CAMERA
• LED FLASH LIGHT
• COLOUR OPTION BLACK
• DIMENSIONS 163 x 83 x 9.5 MM
• WEIGHT 195 GMS (6.88 OZ)
• 2400 mAh Li-ion BATTERY

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ACER ICONIA W3 810 WINDOWS 8 TABLET FULL SPECIFICATIONS

ACER ICONIA W3 810 WINDOWS 8 PRO, 8.1 INCH TABLET

Acer will be launching soon its latest windows 8 tablet which will give tough competition to Google Nexus 7 & Apple iPad mini.

Acer's latest tablet code name Iconia W3 model no: 810 will be hitting the shelves soon. The tablet will be useful to many Executives / Students, who are always on the go, due to its compactness combined with Windows 8 PRO OS (Microsoft Office pre-installed). Acer Iconia W3 810 has a display of 8.1 Inch LCD Capacitive Touch Screen with multi touch. The display resolution of the tablet is of 1280 x 768, ~187 ppi pixel density, 16 M Colours. Technically Acer Iconia W3 810 is loaded with a 1.8 GHz Dual Core Processor, Intel Atom Z2760 Chipset, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3650 & 2 GB RAM. The tablet comes in two internal storage option viz; 32 GB and 64 GB. Most of the tablets have the Rear Camera superior than the Front Camera, but here Acer has made an exception by giving 2 MP Front & 2 MP Rear Camera. On the data connectivity front Acer Iconia W3 810 packs within it features such as Bluetooth v4.0, microUSB, microHDMI, Wifi, Computer sync & OTA sync. To give a complete laptop feel to this tablet  it has an optional keyboard dock. You wont have a problem in selecting colour of your Acer Iconia W3 810 because there are no options available except Silver Colour. This tablet's 2 cells Li-ion Battery has a juice of 3500 mAh.

ACER ICONIA W3 810 WINDOWS 8 TABLET

ACER ICONIA W3 810 FULL SPECIFICATIONS:

• WINDOWS 8 PRO WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE PRE-INSTALLED
• 8.1 INCH LCD CAPACITIVE TOUCH SCREEN, MULTI TOUCH
• DISPLAY RESOLUTION 1280 X 768, ~187 ppi pixels DENSITY, 16 M COLOURS
• 1.8 GHz DUAL CORE PROCESSOR
• INTEL ATOM Z2760 CHIPSET
• INTEL GRAPHICS MEDIA ACCELERATOR 3650
• 2 GB RAM
• 32/64 GB INTERNAL MEMORY
• 2 MP REAR CAMERA
• 2 MP FRONT CAMERA
• SILVER COLOUR
• OPTIONAL KEYBOARD DOCK
• BLUETOOTH v4.0, microUSB, microHDMI, Wifi, COMPUTER SYNC, OTA SYNC
• 3500 mAh Li-ion BATTERY

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Acer neoTouch P300

Style & Handling Summary for Acer neoTouch P300
The P300 certainly looks the business, with a polished body and a solid build.

User Friendliness Summary for Acer neoTouch P300
Despite some improvements to the Windows interface, some of the menu setting are still fiddly, and the touch-screen doesn’t really work effectively unless you use the stylus.

Feature Set Summary for Acer neoTouch P300
The P300 boasts a great set of business features: Wi-Fi, HSDPA, Office Mobile and A-GPS are all present and correct. You also have access to Windows Marketplace for downloading extra apps.

Performance Summary for Acer neoTouch P300
The slow processing speeds make for delays when opening and closing apps.

Battery Power Summary for Acer neoTouch P300
With 240 minutes’ talktime and and 400 hours’ standby, battery life is pretty much what you’d expect.

Full Review and Specification for the Acer neoTouch P300

Acer has been producing smartphones and a rate of knots over the past six months, likely trying to get the message across that it does more than computers and establish itself as a name in the mobile market. Quality has varied wildly, from the spot-on Acer Liquid to the underwhelming beTouch E200.

Style and handling on the Acer neoTouch P300

With the exception of the Liquid, Acer handsets have failed to impress with their design so far. Luckily the P300 bucks that trend. It’s a nicely built slider device with a polished finish and a 3.2-inch touch-screen. The QWERTY keyboard slides out smoothly and feels stable, which isn’t that common on phones like this.

Hold the phone vertically, and below the screen sit the call and call end keys alongside a Windows Menu key – we’ll talk more about that later. They are much too thin, resembling trimming as much as keys – we kept mistaking the icons above for the actual keys. In fact, these simply symbolise which key is which.

Touch-screen and QWERTY keyboard on the Acer neoTouch P300

You need to be careful using the screen if you don’t want to end up in completely the wrong place. Press a key or scroll too fast and it’s likely that the P300 won’t even recognise your command. You’re better of using the stylus, which lives at the bottom of the phone. It seems a bit archaic, but you definitely get better results.

The QWERTY keyboard also has flaws: it looks good and it’s spacious, but the flat keys make it hard to differentiate between them. Plus, the space bar is positioned slightly left of centre, which is counter-intuitive to fast typing.

User friendliness on the Acer neoTouch P300

Windows phones are notorious for their fiddly menus and settings, and while it’s far from perfect, Windows 6.5 is certainly better than previous versions. The text-heavy menu has been replaced by clear, vivid icons, and there is a list of shortcuts visible on the homepage.

But things are still far from perfect. For example, the volume switch, which on most phones you push one way up and one way down, requires you to push one way to open up a virtual volume level display on the screen, which you then adjust. It’s just unnecessarily complicated.

The verdict on the Acer neoTouch P300

The neoTouch P300 is a well-featured, good-looking smartphone that fails on usability. It’s a shame, because the Windows functionality means that you can open, edit and send documents in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, and Wi-Fi, HSDPA and A-GPS make for good access to the internet and mapping.

But it’s fairly slow, and applications take forever to launch and to close. A more powerful processor would have been handy.

It certainly had promise as a business phone, but until the Windows issues are sorted out, it fails to impress.

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Acer Aspire One ZA3

Style & Handling Summary for Acer Aspire One ZA3
The Acer Aspire One ZA3 is a smart, glossy device that comes in a choice of five colours and doesn’t attract fingermarks too badly.

User Friendliness Summary for Acer Aspire One ZA3
The ZA3 is fairly straightforward to use, with no over-complicated functions to navigate, and switching between connectivity options is simple enough.

Feature Set Summary for Acer Aspire One ZA3
The Acer Aspire One ZA3 offers the latest netbook trend of accessing the internet via a 3G SIM for a reasonable price. There’s plenty going on, even though the preinstalled software is a little too much to handle.

Performance Summary for Acer Aspire One ZA3
The low-spec processor and all that onboard software slows the ZA3 down considerably, especially when you are running more than three programmes at once.

Battery Power Summary for Acer Aspire One ZA3
Seven hours of power with Wi-Fi running is pretty good.

Full Review and Specification for the Acer Aspire One ZA3

Netbooks, like everything else, are subject to trends. The next big thing will be getting online using a 3G SIM, and the first to feature this technology is Acer, with the Aspire One ZA3. A Windows XP device has a preinstalled BT SIM, the ZA3 costs just £249 – but, as we know by now, you get what you pay for when it comes to netbooks.

Style and handling for the Acer Aspire One ZA3

In terms of size, the Acer Aspire One ZA3 is par for the course, at one inch thick and weighing 1.35kg. The11.6-inch LED screen is larger than average with a high-definition 1366x768 pixels – a high-end spec for a netbook – and shows up your webpages clearly and vividly. It only pushes back to around 120 degrees, which isn’t as much as some netbooks, but unless you’re in direct light it shouldn’t pose too much of a problem.

The sleek device comes in a choice of black, white, pink, navy or brown and the glossy frontage is not as prone to fingerprints as some. It’s just a shame that the battery protrudes, ruining the smooth line. Three USB ports sit on the sides, alongside a TV-out cable, and Ethernet port and an SD card reader.

The keyboard is spacious and well laid out, although the tablet keys are rather flimsy and tend to click – that’s usual for netbooks, of course, but we have come across better. The touchpad is responsive for standard navigation – up, down, left and right – but rather too jerky for tasks that require more accuracy such as photo editing. The pinch-zoom function is also fitful.

If you start a video call the Crystal Eye 1.3-megapixel webcam and digital microphone automatically fire up. You can also load the webcam from the menu to take a photo, but the results are washed out.

Processor and applications on the Acer Aspire One ZA3

The Intel Atom Z520 processor is moderate when compared with other netbooks, running at 1.33GHz and packing just 1GB of RAM. This makes for slower loading of applications than you get on higher-spec devices, particularly when you are running three or more programs simultaneously.
The battery life is more impressive, though: with Wi-Fi running, it’ll give you seven hours before having to recharge.

The high-definition screen allows you to watch at 720p, not the full 1080p, but it’s enough for a screen of this size. If you do crave a bigger picture, you can connect to your TV via an HDMI cable. That high-def media is hard work for the little processor, though, and it does freeze from time to time. Luckily you get no such problem with browsing the web, messages and document editing.

The main issue for the processor is all the software which has been preinstalled by Acer and BT. For a start, there are three office programmes: a Microsoft Office trial version, the open-source office package OpenOffice and, just in case, the aged and barely used Microsoft Works. Google Desktop has been preloaded alongside a dozen extra games through Acer Gamezone and the RSS reader/meta search engine eSobi. There’s no option to choose, although as software goes, these are pretty good. Finally, McAfee Virus Scan uses enough processing power to cause those delays, and reminds of its presence on a regular basis to install updates, restart your machine or check on whether you’ve received the objects. It’s rather irritating, to say the least.

You can uninstall all of this if you want, and with a bit of technical knowhow download more efficient programmes such as Avira Antivirus, for free.

Internet on the Acer Aspire One ZA3

Thanks to the onboard BT Connection Manager, you can get online using the 3G SIM or swap over to a Wi-Fi network. There’s a choice of five internet profiles to use, dependant on tariff, including PAYG Wi-Fi, free BY Wi-Fi and Ethernet. Switching between connections is a simple process but the user interface is crowded with options and menu tabs.

It’s handy to be able to switch networks at will, but we would have liked to have seen an option to text a mobile phone from the ZA3, like you can with Nokia’s Booklet 3G.

3G is slightly more complex to set up. You can’t just hot-swap the SIM – it’s a pre-installed card that has to be registered on BT’s website before you can use it (we guess they expect you to use the Wi-Fi connection on the ZA3, or another computer altogether). It could also be slow to load, on occasion taking us up to 30 seconds.

The verdict on the Acer Aspire One ZA3

The ZA3 is a competent netbook that ticks all the boxes but the slow processor and clunky preinstalled software means it takes a little longer to react than other, similar netbooks. We like the option to go online using the 3G SIM, Wi-Fi or Ethernet but would like to see better use of the 3G SIM, like the option to send SMS to mobiles. But overall it’s a solid device and a good addition to the Aspire One range.

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