New Acer Liquid A1 Launch Details

Acer Liquid A1, Smartphone By Daniel Wells

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 A1, Smartphone By Daniel Wells

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