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Acer’s beTouch E400 is a slim and elegant Android phone with a 3.2in touchscreen. It has touch-sensitive buttons below the screen, which makes the fascia a flat, glossy surface.
It comes with Android 2.1 and Acer has added a few tweaks and apps of its own. The most useful of these is a copy of Documents To Co, which lets you view Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents.
There’s also a copy of Twidroid, a well-known Twitter client, a music streaming app called Spinlets, and the NemoPlayer media player. The latter will address the concerns of those who find Android’s built-in media player too basic, while Spinlets is more of a music discovery app, letting you sample music. Read the rest of this entry »

Here I would like to introduce Acer’s new 10.1-inch Aspire One D260 netbook which has dual-boot capability with Android and Windows, likely XP. An update to the Aspire One D250. At the same time, Acer revealed a netbook running on Chrome OS is also due in the summer of this year.

The netbook is powered by an Intel Atom CPU, 2GB of RAM, a 160GB of HDD. Aspire One D260 features a 0.3-megapixel webcam, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a card reader and include 3G broadband support.

Acer introduces us its new  neoTouch P400  Windows Mobile. Here we have Windows Mobile 6.5. It is convenient to edit Office documents with the new neoTouch P400  but, in fact, the application offering lacks sexiness. Inside the neoTouch P400 there is a Qualcomm 7227 processor, 512MB of ROM, 512MB of RAM.

The 115mm x 59.3mm x 12mm (4.5in x 2.3in x .47in) P400 has a 3.2-inch HVGA touch screen display, 3G and 802.11b/g WiFi support, a 3.2 megapixel camera, and features sync support for automatic wireless and web-based synchronization with your notebook or netbook. The device also features  GPS support, an accelerometer, and support for Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and supports a battery life of 5 hours.

Both Acer neoTouch P300 and neoTouch P400 run on Windows Mobile 6.5.3, with the former having a 3.2-inch WQVGA touchscreen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard, while the Acer beTouch E110 and E400 run Android (1.5 Cupcake and 2.1 Eclair respectively) with the E110 having a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen and the E400 having a 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen.

Across the board there’s 3G and Bluetooth, while on the E110 lacks WiFi b/g.  No vast processor speeds here, though; at most you’ll get 600MHz.  All have a 3.2-megapixel camera together with GPS and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

Acer expect the neoTouch P300 and beTouch E110 to arrive in March 2010, with the beTouch E400 following on in April and the neoTouch P400 dropping in May 2010.

Those who had an eye for the new Timeline 1820P multitouch tablet should know that Acer officially rolled out a new ultraportable model in Italy, today. Dubbed Acer Aspire Timeline 1820PT, the device has made its way on the company’s Australian website with an 11.6-inch convertible design, Windows 7 Home Premium to run the show, both a multitouch display and a touchpad. Read the rest of this entry »

We’re still not entirely convinced by the Acer’s physical design, and we wish they’d done more to the smartphone’s UI too.  Arne gives them credit for bundling the excellent RoadSync Exchange client  - which goes some way to making up for their choice of Android 1.6 rather than 2.0, which has native Exchange support – along with some of their own apps for streaming media, improved local media control and social networking. The new look and the new design of Acer Phones are worth something.

In the end, the Liquid A1 scores highly for its performance and its stability, though it lacks some features many consumers might reckon are becoming essential: an LED flash, for instance, and an integrated Twitter client.  It’s expected to hit shelves across Europe within the next few weeks

It looks like the big hype with Windows 7 is that it offers great multi-touch capabilities, hence why we see more and more multitouch-capable LCD monitors these days. Another addition to the market is the new Acer T230H, a 23-inch Full HD display (16:9, 1920 x 1080 resolution) that brags to recognize one- and two-finger gestures, such as pinch-zoom and chiral-rotate.

A sleek build with a bunch of goodies inside, Acer T230H is the company’s first touch-activated display. It sports VGA, HDMI and DVI inputs, delivers a 2ms response time, 300 cd/m2 brightness and a 80,000:1 dynamic contrast rate. It also comes with an USB port that allows you to hook up the multi-touch interface to your PC in case you haven’t opted for Windows 7 already, and has built-in 1.5W stereo speakers. Read the rest of this entry »

He’s twisting away from the camera because he’s shy, obviously. Acer’s Aspire 1420p tablet made an appearance today at a Chinese press event, and our regional Engadget correspondents were there to grab as many glimpses as their cameras would allow. What makes it even sweet, though, is knowing this little guy’s coming to the states, as a rough product page was found on Acer’s US site. From what we read, it’s got a 11.6-inch LED-backlit multitouch screen with WXGA resolution, an Intel Celeron processor with integrated graphics, up to 8GB RAM and 320GB HDD, 802.11b/g/Draft-N, Bluetooth, a multi-card reader, webcam, and optional 3G.

On a day that’s been wholly dominated by Acer what with us having already covered the Aspire Timeline AS1810TZ notebooks, the mulittouch touting Acer Aspire AS5738PG notebook (and, of course, Acer’s new neoTouch S200/beTouch E100, E101, E200 and their Liquid A1 Android smartphones) Acer make TFTS once more today with news concerning their Acer Aspire 5738DG 3D laptop which is Acer’s first laptop to boast 3D capabilities thanks to employing 3D CineReal Technology backed up by TriDef’s 3D Experience software bundle – the latter dispensing with the need for a specialised GPU for 3D display. Read the rest of this entry »

The Android market is getting bigger by the day, with developers trying to prove that the open source operating system that has taken the mobile phone world by storm, is actually suited for netbook usage. And a very good example to back these things up, here’s Acer’s AOD250-1613, a dual boot 10-inch netbook that runs both Windows XP and Android.

Although not yet officially released, the new Acer AOD250-1613 has made it for pre-order on Amazon, with deliveries at a later time. Read the rest of this entry »