At today’s press event, Acer officially announced “100% phone, 100% tablet” in conjunction with their tablets, launching April of next year. Acer’s yet to be named phone will have the second generation snapdragon and it will be paired with a brilliant 4.8 inch screen and impressive new controls choices.
The highlight of the device — it’s very large screen has a resolution of 1068×480, making it’s aspect ratio similar to the 21:9 standard, seen primarily in movies. We aren’t yet sure how most Android games will respond, but we expect large black bars to dominate either (or both) side(s) of the screen for older, and unsupported games. Furthermore we can’t speculate on how well this aspect ratio will actually fare in smartphones, and it’s performance in the market is the only thing that will get developer attention.
It will reportedly feature metal construction.
Interestingly Acer’s new phone comes packed with a six axis accelerometer and a gyroscope for better positioning. It’s something we’ve seen in the wii motion plus and it adds to the depth and accuracy of acceleration control a great deal more powerful than the more common 3 axis accelerometer. Along with the updated Qualcomm’s chipset comes improved graphical performance with the Adreno 205 GPU. In addition it will come with the updated Bluetooth 3.0 standard, an 8 MP camera with HD video (720p) support and all the standard components of a modern smartphone. The usual GPS and WiFi B,G,N dual-band modes are both supported. Unfortunately we’re hearing that it’ll also be shipping with the next version of Acer’s custom Android skin, unfortunate because it’s been known for slowing devices down in the past.
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Improved motion controls using a gyroscrope is an important step forward in Android and something we hope we’ll be seeing on more handsets going forward, especially considering this phone has no face buttons or keyboard for control.
Websites Referenced: Engadget
