| The Taiwan based computer giant Acer unveils its | | | | Local wireless and wired data transfers get Bluetooth |
| latest line of Android beTouch and Windows Mobile | | | | 2.0 with EDR and microUSB 2.0, respectively. You |
| neoTouch smartphones at the recent Mobile World | | | | also get a built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS support |
| Congress held in Barcelona, Spain. | | | | for SatNav functionality. Its 970 mAh Li-Po battery |
| Only a year old in the mobile phone business, Acer | | | | when fully charged can deliver no more than 4 hours |
| claims to have sold roughly 500,000 handsets in its | | | | of talk time and 400 hours in standby. |
| debut year and plans to do 3 million this year. While | | | | Its digicam gets 3.2 megapixel of resolution with |
| we can't put its ambitious plans squarely with the | | | | autofocus and geo tagging. Video recording remains |
| lackluster breed of smartphones it unveiled at the | | | | a mystery as of this writing. Multimedia is supported |
| MWC, we can only hope these now phones are just a | | | | by its Windows Media Player for playback of popular |
| start and a stab at a wider market with smartphones | | | | media file formats, but you get no FM stereo |
| that feature water-down specs on both its Android | | | | receiver. Its 3.5mm audio jacks allows standard |
| and Windows Mobile products. | | | | wired stereo listening while its A2DP support allows |
| Among its Windows offerings, the new Acer | | | | lets you listen wirelessly. |
| neoTouch P300 gets the limelight as the first in the | | | | It's a socially aware smartphone with SNS apps for |
| expanding neoTouch family of Widows Mobile | | | | integration with Facebook and comes preloaded with a |
| smartphones to sport a tactile full QWERTY slider | | | | rich set of apps that include messaging apps like |
| form factor together with its touchscreen display. | | | | Outlook, Hotmail and Webmail client, the Internet |
| Features Up Close | | | | Explorer 6 with Flash for browsing and Windows Live |
| With an elegantly sculpted QWERTY slider body | | | | Messenger. |
| measuring 110 x 55 x 15.1 mm and weighing a hefty | | | | It also gets a document viewer for PDF ad MS Office |
| 130g, the neoTouch P300 gets to accommodate a | | | | files, Active Sync, Cloud Sync and Acer Sync as well |
| 3.2-inch TFT LCD resistive touchscreen with Wide | | | | as SatNav aids like Satellite Data Update. Google |
| QVGA resolution the 65k colors common among | | | | Maps, Street View, Latitude, Traffic tracking and POI |
| Windows Mobile smartphones. There's a gravity | | | | Search. You get access to the Windows Marketplace |
| accelerometer for auto rotate viewing convenience | | | | as well as music streaming via Acer Spinlets, video |
| according to handset tilt. | | | | streaming via YouTube client. |
| A 528 MHz Qualcomm MSM7225 engine with 256 MB | | | | Availability |
| RAM and 512 ROM runs the Widows Mobile 6.5.3 Pro | | | | As announced at the MWC, the Acer neoTouch P300 |
| and supported with microSD memory expandability. It's | | | | is expected to hit Europe and the rest of the world |
| 3G phone on the single bad UMTS with 7.2 Mbps | | | | starting this April and will come only in black. There is |
| HSDPA connectivity for high speed internet access. It's | | | | still no price information but with an average feature |
| also a quad band GSM for unrestricted international | | | | set common with other Windows smartphones, we |
| roaming with class 10 GPRS/EDGE data connectivity | | | | don't expect this to go over the €200 SIM-free price |
| on the 2G network. | | | | point before taxes and subsidies. |