Acer Liquid is one of Acer’s contribution for the Android phone market. It runs Android 1.6 (Donut) as of now and will get timely updates to the OS whenever they are released. With Android OS, the phone is pretty powerful in what it can do.
Acer Liquid features 2G quad-band operation and 3G tri-band (HSDPA 900/1900/2100). This feature is called HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access). As the name suggests, HSDPA supports high download speed over the internet compared to the versions of internet available on the 2G scale, like EDGE. This is what makes 3G desirable.
Now, who wants to carry a bulky big phone in their pockets? I certainly dont want to. The world of communicators and brick phones is already doomed. It the world of sleek and slim phones. Acer Liquid fits in this new category with dimensions of 115 x 62.5 x 12.5 mm. And it weighs 135g.
These days, its no fun to use a phone which doesn’t have a touch screen. With so many advances in touch screen technology and great demand for it in a lot of other fields, it has become less expensive and also a lot of time is into its research. So we have great sensitivity and more durable touch screen these days. Talking about which, Acer Liquid also has a touch screen. Its a TFT capacitive touch screen. It can display 256k colors. Pretty good eh?? Its a big 3.5″ screen with a resolution of 480×800. Its a pleasure to work on this phone. There is the Acer UI 3.0 working on this phone. And with the phone’s accelerometer, its automatic rotation of the screen when you rotate it sideways. And with the proximity sensor, auto turn off feature is also present.
For your call and alerts, the phone supports vibration, MP3 ringtones and WAV ringtones. Acer Liquid also has a speaker phone. So you can share that joke with everyone around you with the speaker phone. If you are music buff, you will be happy to know that the phone also a 3.5mm audio output jack. So you can plug in any headphones of your wish. You dont have to use the one provided.
Next, coming to memory, the phone has unlimited entries to save your contacts in, you can save as many contacts as the phone and the memory card can hold. Its the same when it comes to call records also. And it has 256MB of RAM and 512 MB of ROM. So you dont have to worry about your phone slowing down. You gotta meddle with it big time for that to happen. It also has a microSD card slot, meaning you can insert a memory card and save your files on to that. Its supports up to 32GB, and believe me, you, that’s a lot.
When it comes to data, it has GPRS class 10 (32-48 kbps), EDGE class 10 (236.8 kbps) and 3G HSDPA (7.2 Mbps) and HSUPA (2.0 Mbps). Other usual features of this include WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP and a miniUSB port. It has a brilliant 5MP camera, 2560×1920 pixels. So all you photographers, have a good time snapping stuffs. The good thing is that the phone supports GeoTagging. So the location of the photo comes with it. Great!! Liquid also supports video recording. But one negative in this interest, there is no secondary camera.
The phone runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8250 768 MHz processor. 76s MHz isn’t a bad figure. Its pretty fast. It supports SMS, MMS, E-Mail and IM when it comes to messaging. And also sports a full HTML browsers. So you dont get mobile browser-optimized sites on the phone when you browse. You get the complete HTML webpage as you would on your computer. And for everyone who listens to the radio a lot, you can’t on this phone, because there is no radio.
It has A-GPS built in. So you get maps and turn-by-turn navigation on the Liquid. It supports Java via third party applications. Like MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ player, MP4/WMV/H.264/H.263 player, Facebook and Flickr integration, Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF), Voice memo.
It has a Li-ion battery, 1350 mAh, pretty standard. You get a stand-by backup of around 400 hrs and a talk-time of 5 hrs on full charge.