Two new Android smart phones from electronics manufacturer Acer will be arriving in UK store shelves on July and August. While there is nothing that is especially high end about these two devices, they certainly make fine buying options for any Android fan with a limited budget.
The beTouch series of smart phones have always stayed several notches lower on the spec rank sheet when compared to Acer’s more famous Liquid series, but that still gives the beTouch a definitive market niche: the low end smart phone market and that is where the profits are.
Nokia has been on top of the mobile phone industry for several years now, despite the growing popularity of the Google Android and the rise of the Apple iPhone to a cultural phenomenon. It is the mid to low end market that is giving many phone manufacturers the much needed financial growth through sales. And with the beTouch E120 and E130, it appears that Acer has gotten the formula right.
Coming mid-July, the Acer beTouch E120 is a standard touch screen smart phone. It has a 2.8 inch TFT capacitive touch screen, a 416MHz CPU, a 3.2 mega pixel camera and the Android 1.6 Donut operating system. Acer is giving this handset the advantage with software features, from the Acer’s very own UrFooz social networking app to Spinlets, web widgets, and more, users can expect to get extra functionality with this humble mobile phone.
These same features will also be coming with the Acer beTouch E130 when it arrives this August. The device is pretty much like the E120 in terms of hardware, with the exception of having a smaller 2.6 TFT touch screen and a full physical QWERTY keyboard. Like an E120 for heavy email users, the E130 also gives social networking integration, support for various office documents and Acer’s custom apps.
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