Acer's Five New Touchscreen Smartphones

Touchscreen and slide-out QWERTY keyboards bearing smartphones are the 'in-thing' of mobile market. A tough competition lies amongst the mobile operating system residing in the new handsets. Evolving Mobile Internet is a strong factor driving more touchscreen and QWERTY smartphones being launched at affordable rates.

Acer Tempo F900

Of all new Acer smartphones, the Tempo F900 is an easy-to-use touch screen phone built for avid mobile browsing aficionados. Featuring Acer Shell v2.0 interface, this smartphone runs Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system. The 3.8-inch WVGA TFT LCD screen is just 0.1 inch larger than the screen of new Samsung Omnia II. However, it should be noted that Omnia II has AMOLED touchscreen with resistive feedback. Tempo F900 comes with Internet Explorer 6 (Mobile) along with a number of other applications. Along with quad-band GSM/GPRS support, this phone also has WiFi (802.11 b/g).

Network: HSDPA-Category 8/ HSUPA Category 5 ( 2100/1900/850 Mhz)
GSM/EDGE-Quad-band, 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
GPRS/EGPRS-Class B, multi-slot class 11
Operating system: Windows Mobile 6.1
User interface: Acer Shell UI 2.0
Processor: Samsung S3C 6410 (533 MHz)
System memory: 128 MB SDRAM, 256 MB flash memory
Display: 3.8" WVGA TFT LCD touch screen, 800 x 480
Expandibility: microSD Card
Dimensions: 117.5 (L) x 63.5 (W) x 12.85 (H) mm
Camera: 3.0 megapixel resolution, auto-focus
WLAN: 802.11b/g WLAN
Bluetooth: Bluetooth 2.0+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
GPS: SiRFstar III
Sensors: Accelerometer, Light sensor
Applications: Office Mobile, Outlook Mobile, Internet Explorer 6, Maps, Friends locator, Web search, Video streaming, Webmail, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Media Player.
Battery: Rechargeable 1530 mAh lithium polymer battery
Talk time: up to 6 hours
Standby: up to 300 hours

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