The Acer Liquid could be something of a dark horse in the world of Android powered handsets. Acer is not the first name that springs to mind when thinking of smartphones – honestly, it would be lucky to scrape into the top ten. …
Busses. You wait for ages for one and then three come along together. So, it seems, is the case with Acer, which has recently announced no fewer than four Windows Mobile smartphones. The beTouch E200 sits at the head of its beTouch group of three.
It …
Acer has been busy lately releasing a slew of Windows Mobile devices all sporting the new Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional. These ‘Windows Phone’ devices are topped by the high end neoTouch, a smartphone with specifications to salivate over.
The Liquid A1 is Acer’s first Android phone, and the first Android phone from anyone to be equipped with the 1GHz Snapdragon processor. The design is quite plain – although by no means unattractive – the build quality is very impressive and the …
It hasn’t been the criticism that is most damning for the new Windows Mobile 6.5, but the rather the fact that WinMo licensees will continue to cover up the newly, supposedly finger-friendly UI, with their own custom front-ends, and vastly more functional ones at that. If they don’t have any faith in it, when why should anyone else? We take a look at the best, and worst, of some of the many faces of Windows Mobile.
HTC
The most famous example, HTC has done more than any to try and hide the regular WinMo UI beneath something a little more user friendly. With calendar, contacts, weather and web the latest version goes deeper than ever, but support for customisations is minimal.
Verdict: Not perfect, but an ever-impressive effort. ****
Acer’s first Tempo series PDA, the DX900 was capable of carrying two SIM cards. The second unit to come our way, the X960, doesn’t do that but it does have a very novel feature of its own: a widget driven user interface.
The DX900 was originally slated for release in 2008 under the glofiish brand, but after Acer’s acquisition of E-TEN now forms part of the opening wave of Windows Mobile devices in Acer’s Tempo range.
It is also the first smartphone to support …
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