According to the unboxer, elements that may look a bit cheap in pictures – like the hardware buttons and battery cover – really don’t feel that way in person. He says you can be a lot more rugged with it the he had originally thought, calling it a very solid device.

Via Android and Me

This is a possibility at best and is totally unconfirmed. But I like this sort of news and gave a disclaimer, so there. The forums over at modaco.com feature a thread where a MoDaCo writer named Paul is discussing the progress he’s made in rooting Acer’s Liquid A1, which started shipping in the UK on December 8th.

As you can see, the sole poster – an admin of the forums – goes from deciding to embark to successfully rooting the device in a matter of hours:

Time will tell how simple and complete the hack is but if it allows people to bump that Snapdragon up to 1 GHz from the stock 768, I don’t expect many savvy owners to go without – regardless of its effects on battery life.


Via modaco.com

For £349.00 – currently $580 – you can pre-order Acer’s under-clocked (to 768 MHz) Snapdragon device, the Liquid A1. Set to ship December 7th, white will be the only color available initially. The phone will come with Android 1.6 (later upgradeable to 2.0), a 3.5″ WVGA touch screen, 5 MP cam w/ autofocus and geo-tagging, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS. Check out some other specs copied from Amazon after the image. Web browser: Google Chrome? (cont.)

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The first Snapdragon Android, and the first with a WVGA display, also comes with a 5 MP cam, 3.5mm audio jack, a slightly modified version of Android with some widgets and social network integration, and bonus syncing capabilities (like Outlook sync over Wi-Fi). The folks at cnet UK recently got their hands on the device, which will be available in red, black and white. Check out the snaps:

Via cnet UK

Acer announced today two Android products; a touch screen cell phone dubbed Liquid – previously known only as A1, and a 10.1″ Aspire One notebook that is already up for pre-order at Amazon. Unfortunately, details are sparse.

Here’s what we do know: the phone will ship with Android 1.6, a geo-tagging 5MP cam, and GPS. Most importantly, it features a 1GHz Snapdragon processor with 3D chipset. (cont.)

The netbook is said to boot in 18 seconds, shut down in three, and allow switching between Windows and Android with a simple click. I’m guessing Android mnight be virtualized within the Windows environment, but Amazon lists the computer as a dual-booter. Perhaps the simple ‘click-to-switch’ method invokes a shut-down. Aspire One’s battery has up to nine hours of life. It packs 1 Gig of RAM and a 160 GB drive.

Via PCWorld and Gizmodo