Acer Liquid unboxed on video

December 9, 2009

The Acer Liquid has seen its first unboxing video courtesy of Paul from Modaco. It’s quite a thorough 12-minute video that goes through the requisite unboxing ritual along with giving us a look at the boot-up process and a quick flick through the menus and camera operations. My impressions are that the Acer Liquid seems [...]

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Acer Liquid gets rooted

December 9, 2009

The Acer Liquid Android smartphone was only released this week, but modders have been hard at work and already rooted the handset. The great thing is that rather than any complicated procedure, the phone can be rooted via a one-click process. For the uninitiated, rooting an Android handset allows you to install custom ROMs, change [...]

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Acer Liquid now shipping in the UK

December 7, 2009

As expected, the Acer Liquid Android smartphone has started to ship in the UK. A number of retailers including Expansys and Clove have the handset in stock. Amazon UK has moved the handset out of pre-order but now has it dispatching “within 1 to 3 months”. Play.com still has it on pre-order, due to ship [...]

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Acer Liquid sample videos and photos surface

December 6, 2009

The Acer Liquid is due to hit UK shores tomorrow (December 7th) and therefore it’s probably not surprising to hear that we’ll start to see more impressions of the Android handset. One thing we haven’t come across so far is an idea on the imaging capabilities of the Android handset. However, Italian site Batista70Phone, has [...]

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Google Maps Navigation demoed on the Acer Liquid

December 6, 2009

We already know that Google has included one of its killer apps, Google Maps Navigation, within Android 1.6 (Donut). Although, this is still no use for anyone in Europe as it only officially works in the US only. There are hacks to get this to work, however, this is what the guys over at Batista70Phone [...]

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Acer Liquid delayed to early December

November 26, 2009

The Acer Liquid was meant to be out by the end of this month. However, it looks like the release date has slipped by 1-2 weeks. Clove originally expected shipments at the end of November, however their product page for the Acer Liquid now says: “Stock due first week of December. Only WHITE available in [...]

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Gameloft reiterates ‘next-gen’ Android phone support

November 24, 2009

There has been quite a bit of press over the last week regarding Gameloft supposedly reducing its investment in Android. Gameloft’s finance director, Alexandre de Rochefort, said: “We have significantly cut our investment in Android platform, just like … many others,” at an investor conference last week. He went on to say that the company [...]

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Google Maps Navigation hits Android 1.6

November 23, 2009

Google Maps Navigation is, without question, one of the killer features of Android 2.0 (Eclair). Google is aware of this and, as it could be some time before manufacturers move over to the Eclair update, it has decided to update Android 1.6 (Donut) to include Google Maps Navigation. The Acer Liquid is due to launch [...]

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Acer Liquid confirmed to ship this month in UK

November 17, 2009

There has been a distinct lack of news regarding Acer’s first Android smartphone over the last few weeks, however Clove has now confirmed that the Acer Liquid will indeed launch later this month in the UK. No specific date has been given, but Clove expects shipments to “start in late November.” The company is taking [...]

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Android 2.0 source code released; greater chance of seeing it on Acer Liquid?

November 14, 2009

Acer haven’t said whether the Acer Liquid handset will see the latest & greatest Android 2.0 (Éclair) update at some point after release. The phone was announced to hit with Android 1.6 (Donut) only. As the Acer Liquid handset is not a ‘Google Experience’ device, it will not see OTA updates. Acer has tweaked the [...]

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Acer Liquid gets first preview

November 4, 2009

The Acer Liquid Android smartphone has got its first proper preview. The guys over at the::unwired have quite an extensive preview of the device that includes a good look at both the hardware and software. Overall they were impressed with the handset, feeling that it is on the right track to join the big players [...]

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Acer Liquid gets French launch details [Video]

October 30, 2009

French Android fan site, FrAndroid managed to get some hands-on time with the Acer Liquid last night and came back with some interesting tidbits. Apparently the Acer Liquid will first launch in white only for €349 in December. They also managed to confirm that the Red and Black models will follow suit in January 2010. [...]

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Official: Turn-by-turn navigation hitting Google Maps with Android 2.0 [Video]

October 28, 2009

Google has officially announced the Beta of Google Maps Navigation that will hit handsets running Android 2.0. The Acer Liquid will launch with Android 1.6 (Donut), but hopefully it won’t be too long after release before Android 2.0 (Eclair) makes an appearance. All of the core features that you’d find in any half-decent GPS device [...]

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Android 2.0 gets SDK support + official launch video

October 27, 2009

Google has officially announced SDK (software development kit) support for its latest & greatest version 2.0 of Android (dubbed Eclair). This enables current developers to create new application programming interfaces for features such as device synchronisation and Bluetooth. Interestingly, Google confirmed that a number of new Android handsets will be released over the next months [...]

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New Acer Liquid smartphone videos surface

October 21, 2009

Acer looks to have taken their roadshow across mainland Europe, after first revealing the phone in London last week. We’ve come across a couple of videos of the Acer Liquid from both German and Italian blogs that give us a bit more insight into the phones hardware and software. The video from Telefonino.net gives us [...]

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