Acer Liquid slips through human fingers, but not before divulging new specs (updated)

Generic form factor? Check. Default Android skin? Check. Sure, that's nothing exciting, but the real draw of Acer Liquid's gonna be its large, 800 x 480 resolution screen (the exact size of which we still don't know) and its 1GHz Snapdragon chipset. Unfortunately for the guys at Pocket-Lint, they didn't get to play with the Donut-powered handset long enough to really push those two selling points, but on the bright side they did discover a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and some ISO adjustment options, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and what appears to be a 3.5mm headphone jack. Perhaps more importantly, they nabbed some pictures of the thing powered on and in action. Jealous? Yes, yes we are.

Update: We finally have the first images (above) showing Acer's customized Android UI and social networking integration (after the break) courtesy of HDBlog.it. It not quite the full-blown replacement a la HTC Sense, but they've clearly brought a new bag of tricks in an attempt to make the vanilla OS experience Acer-unique.

[Thanks, Josh]

[RileyFreeman Posted Oct 16th 2009 3:08AM]

http://themobileninjas.com/iphone-running-on-telus-network-and-mms-enabled

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2009 3:11AM]

more pictures here - http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/10/14/acer-android-smartphone-hands-on/

screen size is 3.5" - http://www.gsmarena.com/acer_liquid-2968.php

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2009 9:42AM]

*Le sigh*

Didn't Acer learn anything from the iPhone/HTC. We don't want another fingerprint magnet. Soft touch rubber FTW!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2009 10:28AM]

Whats up with that lame Acer menu tab on the bottom.

[FORDY Posted Oct 19th 2009 2:40PM]

Agreed!

I actually really like this, it looks really interesting and I think I'll get one if for nothing more than just to see what it's like.

But come on, that ugly grey menu? Acer, you can do better than that - and stock Android?

Alright, apart from a few Acer apps, and an ugly Acer menu on the main screen, it is just Android.

- Anyone else tempted to break into Monty Python quotes here?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 17th 2009 5:25PM]

So I guess since the renderings say flat-out "Vodafone," we probably shouldn't expect this phone in the states first, right?