Acer Liquid Mini Review

GENERAL
2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100


SIZE
Dimensions 110.4 x 57.5 x 13 mm
Weight 109 g


DISPLAY
Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 256K colors
Size 360 x 640 pixels, 3.2 inches
          - Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
          - Multi-touch input method
          - Touch sensitive controls
          - Acer UI


SOUND
Alert types         Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack       Yes


MEMORY
Phonebook Unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Practically unlimited
Internal 512 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
Card slot microSD, up to 32GB, 2GB card included


DATA
GPRS                 Yes
EDGE                 Yes
3G                       HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi      802.11 b/g, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth            Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR
Infrared port        No
USB                    Yes, microUSB v2.0


CAMERA
Primary 5 MP, 2592х1944 pixels
Features Geo-tagging
Video Yes, 480p@30fps
Secondary No


FEATURES
OS Android OS, v2.2 (Froyo)
CPU 600 MHz ARM 11 processor, Adreno 200 GPU, Qualcomm MSM7227 chipset
Messaging   SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
Browser HTML
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS
Games Yes
Colors Black
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
Java Via third party application
                       - Google Search, Maps, Gmail
- YouTube, Google Talk, Picasa integration
- MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ player
- MP4/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
- Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
- Facebook, Twitter integration
- Voice memo
- Predictive text input



BATTERY    Standard battery, Li-Po 1300 mAh
Stand-by Up to 400 h (2G) / Up to 480 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 8 h (2G) / Up to 6 h 30 min (3G)

Acer Liquid Metal Review

Key features

• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
• 3G with HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA 2Mbps
• Android OS v1.6 with Acer UI 3.0
• 3.5" capacitive touchscreen of WVGA resolution
• Qualcomm Snapdragon 8250 768 MHz CPU, 256 MB RAM
• 5 megapixel autofocus camera with video recording
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and GPS receiver
• Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and turn-to-mute
• Digital compass
• Standard miniUSB port for charging and data
• Stereo Bluetooth (A2DP)
• microSD card slot with support for up to 16GB cards (2GB one included)
• Standard 3.5mm audio jack
• Direct access to the official Android Market

Disadvantages

• Camera lacks flash or lens cover, has outdated features
• No smart dialing, no voice dialing, no video calling
• No web Flash support
• Acer UI 3.0 offers only minor changes to the original interface
• Somewhat limited 3rd party software availability
• No DivX or XviD video support or a third-party application to play that
• Poor MP4 playback performance - any videos over QVGA res are barely watchable
• No proper file manager out of the box
• No TV-out port
• No FM radio