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Acer Liquid A1 Unboxing, Review And Test

Acer Liquid — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:04:48 +0000

If you have not made up your mind yet if the Acer Liquid A1 is the cell phone that you would like to buy then the following three videos might aid you in your decision. All three videos have been produced by the guys from Geekanoids and uploaded to Youtube.

Acer Liquid A1 Unboxing:

Acer Liquid A1 Review:

Acer Liquid A1 Test:

Acer Liquid A1 Black Now Available

Acer Liquid — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:06:19 +0000

The first cell phone of the Acer Liquid series of phones, the Acer Liquid A1, was only released with a white cover by Acer back in December. Even then it was clear that Acer would eventually produce different colored versions of the A1 phone. It still took some time but the time has finally arrived. The first Acer Liquid A1 black cell phones have been spotted in stores (in countries where the phone is already sold).

The only difference between the white and black Acer Liquid phone is the color. All the technical details are identical.

Official Acer Response To Android 2.0 Support And Other Questions

Acer Liquid — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:25:03 +0000

We have created a list of questions that had yet to be answered by Acer about their debut Acer Liquid A1 smartphone. The questions addressed several “unknown” factors about the cell phone that potential customers wanted to know before making a purchase. Our contact at Acer sat down with us and answered all of the questions that we had. Below are the most pressing matters and their official answers by an Acer representative:

The Acer Liquid has launched in the UK and some other European countries. Is there a list of release dates available? When will it for instance hit the US and Canada?

I am unable to give a precise date for release in the US & Canada but it is likely to be within the first 3 months of 2010.

Will there be carriers that offer the phone?

Not at present, likely to be in 2010 though.

The phone ships with Android 1.6, will it be possible to upgrade to Android 2

his is not planned at present.

Is the screen multi-touch capable?

This will depend on the Android system, with Android 1.6 it isn’t possible.

Is there a tethering option?

There is no tethering option

Does the phone support FM radio?

The phone does not support FM radio.

Is Flash for web browsing integrated?

Flash for web browsing is not integrated.

There you have it from an official source. There are currently no plans up provide Android Liquid A1 owners with an upgrade to Android 2.0. This does not mean that this is not going to happen though but if it is going to happen it will be not in the coming months, that is for sure.

Acer Liquid A1 Unboxing Videos Hit Youtube

Acer Liquid — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:39:34 +0000

The Acer Liquid A1 smartphone went on sale just a few days ago in several European countries. Shortly thereafter first so called unboxing videos appeared on the popular video portal Youtube. Unboxing videos are videos by customers who bought the Acer Liquid A1 and decided to film the unboxing process.

Unboxing videos are usually a great source of first hand information about a device and the Acer Liquid videos are no exemption from that rule. One of the videos for instance mentions that the Acer Liquid A1 supports tethering which is backed up by a screenshot of the manual pages that describe the tethering setup.

Some other interesting factors like the cell phone’s battery life will become accessible in the near future when the first owners post their findings on the Internet.

New Acer Liquid A1 Launch Details

Acer Liquid — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:08:39 +0000

We have confirmed December 7 as the launch date of the Acer Liquid smartphone in the United Kingdom yesterday and would like to bring some other launch details to your attention:

The Acer Liquid A1 will only be available in white in December, red and black colors will follow in the first quarter of 2010.
The Snapdragon processor will be underclocked to 768Mhz
The 5MP digital camera has fast autofocus, geotagging but no Flash
The phone will ship with Android 1.6 but it will be possible to upgrade to 2.0 in 2010.
Status notifications for Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Picasa and Flickr
Spinlets custom Android app for streaming media
Options to automatically upload videos to Youtube and images to Flickr
Options to sync Outlook email, calendar and contacts
Acer Sync, a syncing alternative, to pair the Liquid with any Windows PC over the same Wi-Fi network
Optimized power management
First Android phone to run WVGA screen
Acer App store coming but not available at launch

The Acer Liquid A1 white will also be available shortly in other European countries including Spain, France and Germany. The suggested retail price for the Acer Liquid A1 is €349.

Acer Liquid A1 Available In UK On December 7

Acer Liquid — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:34:38 +0000

The wait is over. UK retailer Clove will be among the first retailers worldwide to offer the new Acer Liquid A1 smartphone to phone enthusiasts in the UK. The cell phone is already available for pre-order at the Clove website but will not be delivered to customers until December 7. The version of the Acer Liquid A1 that is offered to consumers is the white version of the phone. The retail price of the Acer Liquid A1 White is £286 (£328.90 inc VAT) which is about €360 or $538.

The box will contain the Acer Liquid A1, a battery pack, 2GB micro SD card, mini USB charger, mini USB headset, mini USB data cable, software CD and quick starter guide. Clove offers world wide shipping according to our information which means that consumers from other parts of the world who are interested in the Acer phone can order it from Clove as well.

Features of Acer Liquid A1

Qualcomm 8250 768MHz processor
Android 1.6 (Donut) Operating System
Slim design just over 12.5mm thick
3.5″ WVGA Touchscreen Display
Quad-band GSM/GPRS 850/900/1800/1900
Tri-band HSDPA 850/1900/2100 MHz
512MB ROM / 256MB RAM
5 Megapixel Camera
Bluetooth 2 with EDR

Update: Amazon.co.uk is also offering the phone for pre-order. They do however only ship to locations in the United Kingdom