http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/ Engadget Comments for Acer Liquid slips through human fingers, but not before divulging new specs (updated) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 2:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 2:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 2:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 3:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/The interesting thing about Android isn't its looks, it wont win a beauty contest

BUT

what is interesting is what you can do with it as an OS. Right now, when I get an SMS it's backed up to a server (as an email message). That means I always have a backup and I can actually read messages if I leave my phone at home. That's not amazing, but it's useful and the design of the OS allows you to hook into standard events like that and add your own functionality. Not only can you add functionality you can also make it the default functionality. Don't like the standard SMS app? Change it, make it ChompSMS.

I still have my iphone but I don;t realy use it, my aging G1 is still my phone of choice and although this looks like a really nice phone I wont be buying it. I want a physical keyboard.

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It's the fact that the OS itself is very stable and open, which makes it easy for other phone companies to modify it and improve upon it. Google's taking an approach similar to what Microsoft did with Windows. It's licensing the software out to phone manufacturers and letting them do what they want with it. All Google has to worry about is providing excellent support for developers and they're golden. ]]>Oct 16th 2009 3:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/
I suppose it may merely be a personal preference though, as I prefer Android to all the other smartphone OS's despite its current lacking in certain functions(like integrated pdf reader). I'd say that my personal favorite thing about it is that it's very easy to use and yet it's not so simple that it bores me. Basically, it's fun to use, which is a really important factor.

But I'll agree with the statement of it being unpolished from my experience with my G1: the first problem being the terrible battery life . Actually I don't even use my G1 anymore because I can't seem to last through a day with it since I tend to use my phone a lot for web browsing and the such. Since then I've switched to S60v3 which is certainly a lot more functional but seriously lacks the ease of use that Android has. And really, it's just downright boring(not to mention ugly even after using some themes).

That being said, once my contract's over I'm sure I'll be going back to Android assuming that things like battery life get addressed(and hopefully by then there'll be some phones that are nearly as aesthetically pleasing as my E71). Realistically though, even if the functionality is still lacking, I'd still take it over other smartphone OS's just because I find it enjoyable to use. The iPhone wasn't such a big hit because it was more functional than other OS's, it just was a lot easier, intuitive, and most importantly more enjoyable to use. I'm sure that there will always be a market for people who need business level capabilities, but I don't really think that's what Android's targeted to.]]>Oct 16th 2009 3:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/
Yeah because it's wrong for Google to protect it's own products.

HTC and other handset makers HAVE to pay to distribute those apps Google can't let just anyone come along and do the same.

Cyanogen knew this, eveyone knew it it was just a matter of time. Google's Android IS free and you can freely make you own ROMs compile then entire thing and install it. The thing you can't do is DISTRIBUTE applications that are under a different license. Why is that so hard to understand?

and just for the record I use Cyanogen's ROM and I'm most definately not a google fan boy.

"The Very Same ROMS's that can be cooked into, edited, and redistributed freely between WinMo builds?"

wtf are you on about?

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Yes, that's clearer.

The only way to reskin is to open the apk change the graphics and resign it. I don;t think anyone has modified the google apps other than that because there's no access to that code in the codebase.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Personally I use k9 for mail and OS maps for mapping so don;t have any issue with google less ROMs although the calendar/contacts sync is really immportant. Cyanogen has fixed this anyway by simply automating the extraction process from a legitimate ROM image.]]>Oct 16th 2009 7:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/
Any handset maker can snap a fast processor. It is not
like Acer is inventing a new processor for their handset.
User wants to know how long the battery will last with
these processors. The handset makers putting 1ghz
processor never mention about their battery usage
and you wonder why.

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Your assumption is incorrect. Laptop makers don't use desktop pc processors
for obvious reason. They consume too much power!

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This is not new. My 4 year old AMD chip do just that. Still the processor
is still the desktop processor and consume a lot more power than mobile
processors. Bottom line is you can't assume their power usage to be
very efficient. If they were handset makers would probably make a big
deal out of it.

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What the fuck are you talking about? I was talking about the phone, not a laptop.]]>Oct 16th 2009 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 2:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 3:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 3:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 3:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Nov 28th 2009 12:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 3:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 3:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 3:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 3:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 4:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.gpsandco.com/news/2009-10-16/id6053/Video-exclusive-du-smartphone-Android-Acer-Liquid/]]>Oct 16th 2009 3:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 4:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Worst video ever, basically shows nothing. The least they could have odne is show how quickly some of the apps started up rather than showing us the back of it all the time. ]]>Oct 16th 2009 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/
No skins, no shells, no extra software out of the box? Who cares when there's a big modding community and in a few weeks we'll see HTC's shells running on this device (and, hopefully, many other ones too)?]]>Oct 16th 2009 3:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 3:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/
Of course no build quality like Apple or Sony or even FS, but still it was rather robust. I'm not a fanboy and if I had a tad more money back in 2004, I'd go for, say, Asus.

Seems to me same can be said about their netbooks (I used to have Aspire One but it didn't find any use with me) and PDAs/smartphones - affordable, simple, of agreeable quality, robust.]]>Oct 16th 2009 4:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 4:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 4:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 4:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 5:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 5:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/Oct 16th 2009 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/
Processor: 1GHz Qualcomm QSD 8250
3.5 “WVGA (800 × 480) Capacitive Touchscreen Display
256 MB SDRAM / 512 MB FLASH
Messaging: MMS, SMS
WLAN: 802.11b/g Wi-Fi CERTIFIED
Bluetooth® 2.0+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
HSDPA Category 8/ HSUPA Category 5 /UMTS (2100/1900/900 Mhz) EU
HSDPA Category 8/ HSUPA Category 5 /UMTS (2100/1900/850 Mhz) US
GSM: Quad-band 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
GPRS/EDGE Class B
Integrated A-GPS
5 megapixel camera with autofocus
Accelerometer
Light sensor
3.5mm headphone jack
Capacitive buttons: Home, Search, Back, Menu
Hardware buttons: Volume Up, Volume Down, Camera, Power / Standby
Battery: Lithium Polymer rechargeable with 1.350 mAh capacity
Talk time: Up to 5 hours for WCDMA / Up to 6 hours for GSM

http://www.dancewithshadows.com/tech/acer-liquid-a1-photo-and-specifications/
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Thanks!]]>Oct 16th 2009 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acer-liquid-slips-through-human-fingers-but-not-before-taking-p/It's called the Power Control widget in Android 1.6, if you use Cyanogen's roms you can have it now otherwise you need to wait ntil 1. is pushed.




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