Acer's beTouch and neoTouch smartphone series made official

It feels like these phones have been on sale for a solid six months for some weird reason, but in reality, Acer's 2009 line of WinMo 6.5 devices -- including the range-topping F1 -- are finally out and about with shiny new names to boot. As we'd previously heard, the Snapdraon-powered F1 is actually going to market as the S200 and will sit in the high-end neoTouch range, while the E100, E101, and E200 will slum it down in the beTouch series. All four are touch-equipped and range in price from £159 to £295 ($259 to $481) at retail, and when you consider that they're all fully unlocked and unbranded, that may not be so bad of a deal -- particularly for that sexy S200 up there.

[Via Slashgear]

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 19th 2009 4:45PM]

Still only for UK right...?

[littlemonster Posted Oct 19th 2009 5:40PM]

where can you buy one of those for $481??

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 19th 2009 8:07PM]

The sexy S200 up there is absolutely identical to my 12 months old HTC TouchHD, which is not a bad thing after all.
Still, I don't think I will cancel my HD2 preorder.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 20th 2009 5:18AM]

Why must a smartphone with slide out keyboard at the bottom have a crappy spec. Why couldn't they created the E200 with at least Wifi and VGA and some more interesting stuff. Still have the HTC Touch Dual but it's missing a lot.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 20th 2009 11:46AM]

Purchased the Neotouch s200 when it first came out - way too buggie for me! Very disappointed. Sometimes it resets itself others it freezes and you have to reset it. Acer should have spent more time refining the new 6.5 software issues instead of trying to be first to the gate!