By Sai Krishna D.
June 17, 2011
Acer, a long time manufacturer of PCs and laptops has forayed into the smartphone market with a bunch of Android powered devices. Here we will take close look at the Acer Liquid Metal, which is one of their premium smartphone offerings competing with the likes of the HTC Desire and Samsung Galaxy S.
Acer's Android skin running on the large 3.6 inch OLED display is still pretty rough at the edges and needs a lot of work to compete with similar skins from HTC and Samsung.
The main menu scrolls horizontally, but strangely, the first two rows do-not scroll sideways.
A close look at the weather widget on the home screen. One can have up-to five home screens on which various widgets can be installed. While there are a plethora of widgets to choose from, the Acer Android widgets don't match the eye-candy found on the Samsung touch wiz widgets and don't even match the intuitiveness of HTC sense.
The standard Android buttons are capacitive touch buttons, which work smoothly.
The rear of the device houses a decent 5-megapixel snapper, which also shoots HD videos at 720p. Although the camera performed well, the results were no way close to the ones found on the iPhone 4, which houses currently the best 5-megapixel camera in the market.
The battery compartment is covered with a classy looking aluminium cover, which is also very rugged and does not scratch easily.
Here we can see the top end of the device which houses the power button, the 3.5mm jack and also three notification lights for charge level, messages and missed calls.
A side view of the device with a close look at the volume rocker. We can clearly see this is not the slimmest Android phone in the market, at 13.5mm it is one the larger devices on the market but that is not entirely a bad thing as its curvy design lends it a form factor which makes it very comfortable to hold.
The bottom end of the device houses the lone micro-USB port.
June 17, 2011
Acer, a long time manufacturer of PCs and laptops has forayed into the smartphone market with a bunch of Android powered devices. Here we will take close look at the Acer Liquid Metal, which is one of their premium smartphone offerings competing with the likes of the HTC Desire and Samsung Galaxy S.
Acer's Android skin running on the large 3.6 inch OLED display is still pretty rough at the edges and needs a lot of work to compete with similar skins from HTC and Samsung.
The main menu scrolls horizontally, but strangely, the first two rows do-not scroll sideways.
A close look at the weather widget on the home screen. One can have up-to five home screens on which various widgets can be installed. While there are a plethora of widgets to choose from, the Acer Android widgets don't match the eye-candy found on the Samsung touch wiz widgets and don't even match the intuitiveness of HTC sense.
The standard Android buttons are capacitive touch buttons, which work smoothly.
The rear of the device houses a decent 5-megapixel snapper, which also shoots HD videos at 720p. Although the camera performed well, the results were no way close to the ones found on the iPhone 4, which houses currently the best 5-megapixel camera in the market.
The battery compartment is covered with a classy looking aluminium cover, which is also very rugged and does not scratch easily.
Here we can see the top end of the device which houses the power button, the 3.5mm jack and also three notification lights for charge level, messages and missed calls.
A side view of the device with a close look at the volume rocker. We can clearly see this is not the slimmest Android phone in the market, at 13.5mm it is one the larger devices on the market but that is not entirely a bad thing as its curvy design lends it a form factor which makes it very comfortable to hold.
The bottom end of the device houses the lone micro-USB port.
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