Acer F1 coming in September, powered by Snapdragon?
By Ross Miller 
posted Mar 26th 2009 12:37AM
posted Mar 26th 2009 12:37AM
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The estimated percentage of cellphones that were recycled in 2007.
The EPA estimated that of the 126.3 million cellphones disposed of in 2007, only 14 million -- about 10 percent -- were recycled. The rest? Landfill heaven. (source: EPA, July 2008)
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well that is just lame my clipboard some how copied twice.... I fail, but the message prevails.....
Oh well thought I messed up it just reformatted the text... never mind....
Triple post alert!
Acer $820 after tax. iPhone as low as $99 in USA.
What brand would u trust acer or apple,. ?exactly. Who Would drop 820$ on acer ?
you actually only paid 99 bucks for your iphone? go back to 2nd grade and learn how to add and subtract.
The type of people who would drop $700 on a non-subsidized iPhone, only in this case, these people are smart because this phone will not be so locked down and restricted in terms of capabilities and functions like the iPhone.
yeah, if anyone wants a touchscreen only phone, I guess the new iPhone is the best option, along with the Tegra Android phone (one is rumored to have a full qwerty)
However, the iPhone is for $799. NOT $99....
you have to compare the unlocked prices, not a locked price and unlocked price.
That's what people always forget to do compare unlocked to unlocked pricing but instead they do the subsidized 2 year pricing to non-subsidized. Anyway it's still cheaper to go 2 years considering there are few that actually want the bleeding edge. I wouldn't want to buy into the iPhone 3G now since LED backlit version of the iPhone is just around the corner. Gotta wait and see what options are out there...
o come on why does winmo get all the cool phones touch pro 2 now this when is cool android stuff being release
I don't have anything against Android, but can you fanboys please stop coming to every post with a Windows Mobile phone and whining about how it doesn't support Android? If it doesn't support Android, tough. Also, I thought you could install Android on any phone? Or am I wrong?
This looks absolutely phenomenal by the way.
Looks to be a great year for WM phones.
Don't get your hopes high.
For a 2009 WM phone, the biggest achievement would be to run as smoothly as a 2007 iPhone. It won't. Just look at Toshiba's snapdragon phone.
Till WM supports GPU acceleration and capacitive touchscreens, its UI experience will be behind a 2007 phone.
If anything, it's going to be a glorious Android, Palm, and maybe Apple year.
i'm sure they'll do capacitive screens if they can make the screens work with finger nails and pointy stylus.
no... i ain't clipping my nails!
iPhone will have this phone for lunch guaranteed. Add this to the guaranteed to fail product list, acer go back to making $400 laptops. Wm been out for 8+ years n a new os comes along n smokes it. So now wm back to the cloning I mean drawing board. I always hear an fanboys say next wm will be better watch,.wm10??lol. It will be the year for capacitive smoothness, feature rich doesn't guarantee success ,. 20000 apps does. Wm is going thru a slow death, zunephone is 2 years toooo late. Wm geared for third world or uninformed that don't know better options out there.
TareX,
The day it runs as smooth as an iPhone will be the day I stop using them.
Compared to my Touch Pro running Mighty ROM with TF3D2 / Rhodium Interface, the iPhone is laggy, unresponsive, and plain ugly.
Oh, and it still can't multitask, whereas I can run a dozen apps in the background and still fly through any other task.
You were saying?
Shank,
Funny you should bring up the apps numbers.
The documented WM apps are 20,000 +, the undocumented ones (just visit XDA-Devs, PPCgeeks, or any number of other sites) is in the countless thousands as well.
However, most of our apps are productive and worth the asking price, not thousands upon thousands of useless, limited, apps like tip calculators and me-too fart apps.
Come back and talk when a single one of those 20,000 will let you do what SoftMaker Office allows, editing any office document, irrespective of the complexity.
Or come back and talk when you can run your choice of over a dozen turn-by-turn voice (in some cases voice activated) GPS apps.
Or come back and talk when you can multi-task.
How about Flash?
What you don't have flash? It's 2009, but I guess it took you guys 2 years to get copy/paste...so I suppose by 2011 (another 2 years) you'll be able to see my Youtube review videos of my WM phone.
For now, I'll just use Voice Command to launch Hulu and catch a quick show, right after I finish editing this post in Office, and then copy/pasting it on Engadget.com via a tab in Opera Mobile.
What, you can't do any of that yet?
Maybe 2011 will be the year the iPhone finally has features worth talking about.
@ Hamidxa
Damn Right!
All the Windows Mobile Bashers will never understand the versatility and power at our fingertips. The funny thing is: most of them have never used a current version of Windows Mobile, and certainly not a ROM based on HTC latest and greatest (I’m personally running Dutty's latest ROM on my HTC Touch HD).
Unlike most other users: I own an iPhone, a couple G1s (one rooted, the other standard), and a few Windows Mobile Phones (I’m an enthusiast). And the only one not collecting dust in my Touch HD.
WM Bashers: Please name me one device to top the HTC Touch HD’s specs?
I hate the iPhone, Apple and all the tripe both have spawned.
By the way McLovin, where are you using the Touch HD? In Europe with 3G or in US with 2G? I am still so tempted to get that phone... it is the best damn looking phone I've seen, and the screen is fantastic. I can dig WM also. I just can't see limiting myself to 2G knowing it's a limitation of the phone in the US.
McLovin,
Amen.
Running a Touch Pro here, but my cousin has the Touch HD (imported version, running it here in the States), and it's a beautiful device, arguably the best phone right now on the planet.
I'd like to get my hands on one as well, but the fact that I use Sprint (CDMA) coupled with the fact that I have a SERO plan (unlimited EVDO-RevA data plan) kept me from buying one, plus I got a ridiculously amazing good deal on my Touch Pro (Brand New for $50 from Sprint themselves ;) )
But yeah, non WM users/bashers are simply ignorant of the changes made recently by vendors such as HTC, and are oblivious of interfaces such as TF3D, TF3D2, SPB Mobile Shell, Touch Wiz, etc, which all make WM just as finger friendly as any other phone out there.
Couple that with the fact that the power our phones have, the versatility they feature, and the countless apps out there that are actually worth a damn, it is no wonder why they call these Pocket Personal Computers, (Pocket PC's), whereas others are still debating as to whether or not to call the iPhone a mere smartphone, we do on the other hand have miniature computers in our pockets.
Touch Pro simply doesn't deliver when it comes to performance. The smartphone is buggy and frustratingly slow,no standard headphone jack.no dedicated camera key. music player is ages behind u know what ,accelorometer is sluggish. battery sucks n drains quick, plastic face instead of glass. Sliding QWERTY keyboard feels like it’s going to break. Stylus mounted on bottom of device - falls out ,Call quality is tinny,camera takes forever to take the picture the person literally has to sit still for 5-7 seconds till the picture is taken!!! . the touch is very unaccurate and choppy comppared to iphone or g1. Basically this phone does everything but make a good phone. locking up or delaying in between modes… If you go from the main screen to the qwerty text position it closes out & opens up again and then it is fine but it is still a delay and just downright annoying for the top dollar you spend to own this PDA.-screens keep disappearing or appearing spontaneously,I can’t reply to texts without going through a number of steps,when putting a new number in contacts it requires that you type the contact name in two places and often the screen disapears in the middle forcing me to restart the process,and finally browser blows compared to iphone.i have spoken n silenced.
800Mhz... that makes me dizzy
same sentence would apply to PCs in the 90s..
But seriously, what can a phone do with 800Mhz of seepey yew sap?
Hahah my laptop that i actually use is 800Mhz
And what they failed to point out (perhaps assuming everyone knows) is that the Snapdragon is not an old ARM11 running at 800Mhz, but is based on the next-gen Cortex-A8. This thing should be crazy fast... Too bad crappy WinMo is used..
needs to be capacitive with its own (and i think it actually has) GPU!
Looks nice, but I need a phone now... asap... I'm so tired of waiting for the new releases... teh F900, the TG01, the Omnia HD, etc, etc. I'd like something released in April please.
@Kwikit
Yeah, I live in Miami, Fl USA
Wtih Regards to 3G: It does not suupport it, but my G1 does, and I must tell you that Opera does an awesome job of rendering websites so I don't notice a huge difference between my G1 and my Touch HD, if you're going to tether with it though, that's when it's noticable. But to me, it's definitely worth it!
The Camera is awesome!
The interface is the best!
It seamlessly acts as external storage when connected to the PC: PRICELESS! (I have virtual servers and PCs loaded on there for mobile IT testing!)
The Display is absolutely outstanding. 3.8" C'mon
Resolution = WOW (480 x 800)
It's the same size as the iPhone but packs a bigger punch (two cameras, longer lasting battery, standard mini usb port, 5Mp camera with panarama, and autofocus, and video record in full VGA"
Microsoft Office
Bluetooth file explorer
Built in FM Raido
Built in Tethering
Great for RDP
Heck yeah, it's worth it!
Like Hamidxa said: it's a PC in your pocket literally!
Heh, I missed you all the way down here. Thanks for the feedback. Only thing keeping me from buying the Touch HD is anticipation on some 3G capable phones... the F900 has the same size screen and resolution... the TG01 looks like it may suit me also, as I want a touchscreen with handwriting and sketch capabilities. Omnia HD may be good with Symbian but I'm not excited it's 360 x 640. Touch Pro 2 and Diamond 2 don't excite me since they're smaller screens. You get the general idea... I'm buying something in the next couple of months... as soon as these are available and people report back on their capabilities... and if those all fail, I'll definitely order the Touch HD. Sucks that HTC did that to the phone. Otherwise, it would have not even been a question, I'd have bought it in December.
Thanks again. It's nice to know the 2G isn't so debilitating.
the only thing i can figure is that mobile device execs have never actually had to rely on WinMo. If they did, there is no way they would let a WinMo device off their dock. Its rubbish.