Acer E310 Mini Liquid With 3.2-inch TFT Capacitive Touchscreen and Android Froyo 2.2 The Review
- Quad Band GSM 850/900/1800/1900 Mhz
- HSDPA 900/2100 Mhz
- 3.2-inch TFT touch screen capacitive with a depth of 256K colors 320 x 480 pixel resolution with Acer display UI
- ARM 11 600 MHz processor and GPU Adreno 200
- Camera resolution 5 MP (2592 x 1944)
- 480p resolution video recording at 30 fps
- Android OS Froyo 2.2
- Accelerometer sensor
- Connectivity Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g with DLNA support and Bluetooth version 2.1 with support for A2DP and EDR
- GPS with A-GPS
- FM radio with RDS support
- 3.5mm standard audio jack
- MicroUSB port
This phone will compete closely with the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X8, Galaxy Mini Samsung, and LG Optimistic ME.
Hardware
For the class of low-end Android Mini Liquid design looks good. Both sides of the top and bottom looks curved and gives the impression of the effect of luxury. The use of plastic materials selected by Acer but not cheap plastic. Plastic material was quite thick and sturdy.
For business display, Acer Mini Liquid supplement with 3.2-inch touch screen TFT 256K color depth capacitive with resolution 320 x 480 pixels (HVGA) with Acer display UI. Liquid Mini's screen resolution is more pleasing to the eye when compared with its competitors resolution Galaxy Mini which uses a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels (QVGA). When viewed from the side of the screen remain clearly legible.
Display Inter-Face With Acer UI
Mini Liquid Display already customized using the Acer display the UI which makes the display look more attractive. Display the home screen is equipped with 5 home screen widgets that you can apply.
Music Player
For the music player business, Liquid Mini does not come with a choice of EQ but the sound that comes out of this mobile phone speakers sounded pretty good. Almost all formats of popular songs can be played on music players like MP3, WAV, WMA, and eAAC +.
Photo Gallery
Photo gallery show with the 3D view just like any other handphone Froyo. To perform a zoom-in, there are several ways such as pinching (pinch and zoom) screen mobile phone, mobile phones are quickly tapping the screen twice, or use the zoom-in virtual. Sensitivity level of the screen feels pretty good when we used to do the pinch and zoom photos. Photos can be sent using MMS, Picasa, Bluetooth, Facebook, and Email.
Video Player
The videos can be played by Liquid Mini is MP4, WMV, H.264, and H.263. For 720p resolution video can not be played when we were testing the MP4 format video playback resolution of 720p. For video below 720p resolution all can be played smoothly and well.
FM radio with RDS support
To listen to the radio you have to use a headset. FM radio comes with RDS to easy find radio channels. Radio channels you can search manually or automatically, and you save on the radio feature.
Connectivity
Acer Liquid Mini works on Quad Band network GSM 850/900/1800/1900 Mhz and HSDPA 900/2100 Mhz. For local connectivity there is a Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g with DLNA support and Bluetooth version 2.1 with EDR and A2DP support. Liquid Mini can be used as a portable hotspot because of the Wi-Fi Tethering. To connect with the satellite there is a GPS with A-GPS. MicroUSB port is available at the bottom of the phone to connect phone and PC.
Browser
For browsing you can surf using Liquid's eighth Mini tab windows. Yup, the browser can be used for up to 8 tabs open windows. For real Froyo already support flash, but the processor's Liquid Mini is not yet support flash. Pinch and zoom as well as the kinetic scrolling makes it easy when you are browsing more convenient browsing experience.
Performance and Benchmarking Acer E310 Mini Liquid
Mini Liquid Acer E310 uses ARM 11 600 MHz processor and GPU Adreno 200, below are the results of benchmarking the performance and Froyo Android phone made by Acer this:
- Quadrant Standard: 480 points (above XPERIA X10i)
- Antutu: 904 points
- Benchmark PI: 2795
- Neocore: 33.8 fps
- Linpack: 7.77
Performance and benchmarking Acer E310 Mini Liquid visible below its competitors namely LG and Samsung Galaxy Optimus Mini Me. For information, we do the task killer to cover every application for the benchmark.
Camera
Acer Liquid Mini uses a 5-megapixel resolution camera capable of capturing images at a maximum resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels. You can use the camera features such as choice of image resolution (5 MP, 1080p, UXGA, 720p, XGA, VGA, HVGA, QVGA), white balance (auto, daylight, cloudy, fluorecent, incandescent), brightness, self timer (2 seconds, 10 seconds), color effects (mono, negative, sepia, aqua, ISO (100, 200, 400, 800), geotagging, zoom-in, and EV.
Battery
Acer Liquid Mini uses a batery 1300 mAh Li-Po, which can hold up to 400 hours (2G) / 480 hours (3G) on standby and 8 hours (2G) / 6 hours and 30 hours (3G) when used to make calls.
Conclusion
For those of you who want to try Android but with a limited budget, the phone is quite good in terms of quality and the screen. But for the benchmarking results are not as good as its competitors are LG and Samsung opimus ME Galaxy Mini.
- The designs are fresh
- Relatively good-quality mobile
- The screen is good for low-end mobile phone size Android
- Quality speakers, good enough when playing a song
Minus:
- The results of benchmarking competitors under
- There is no flash on the camera
- A higher price compared to competitors