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Acer X960, F900, M900, DX900

acert released 4 tempo smartphones

Acer, the world’s third largest PC maker, is getting serious about cellular phone market. Today, Acer announced 4 new Tempo-series smart phones for the Asia-Pacific region, showing its ambition in cell phone maker, after seeing the recent boom of smartphone / PDA phone market. The 4 new smartphones are X960, F900, M900, and DX900.

X960

acer X960

The X960 looks very alike to HTC Touch phones. In fact, the phone has almost identical features of HTC Touch, such as GPS, PDA, camera, MP3 player and a widget-based friendly interface for instant access to the web, email and your life online.

F900

acer F900

The F900 is there to challenge iPhone 3G. It features a gigantic 3.8-inch WVGA touch screen. Like iPhone 3G, the X900 phone relies on visual QWERTY keyboard for input. It features a widget-based home screen based on Windows Mobile OS.

M900

acer M900

The M900 looks very alike to Pantech Duo. The phone is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1, and is designed for mobile professionals who need to access corporate emails frequently. The phone has a gigantic 3.8-inch WVGA touchscreen, a sliding QWERTY keyboard, and Outlook Mobile.

DX900

acert DX900

The DX900 is the world’s first dual-sim phone to support 3G and 2G Sims. This feature allows users to have flexible mobile connectivity for fast Internet access on the same phone. This might not make sense for US users whose phones are mostly carrier locked, but for other countries, where users are free to swap carrier by having changing sim cards, the dual-sim feature would help users.


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Acer Shell UI video demonstration

acer-shell-uiAs part of Acer's inaugural push into the smartphone space, the computer-maker turned mobile phone vendor used the Mobile World Congress world-stage to showcase their new Windows Mobile UI overlay, the widget-based Acer Shell UI.

The whole idea behind a Windows Mobile UI overlay is to give the customer a more intuitive and finger-friendly UI with which to interact with the Windows Mobile platform. Done right, a good WinMo UI obviates the need to access Windows Mobile's decidedly less intuitive, menu-obsessed operating system. In that regard, the Acer Shell UI shines.

Keep in mind that HTC has been doing their TouchFLO 3D UI for a long time, and it's almost an accepted fact that HTC's WinMo overlay is the best in the business. Does the Acer Shell UI measure up? Almost.

The premise behind the Acer Shell UI is a virtual office space. You're sat at your virtual desk, around which you arrange all sorts of typical desktop knick-knacks - things like picture frames, a Rolodex, a clock, etc. Each desktop item represents a widget application, allowing you to move about your virtual office and interacting with information sources like you would in your physical office. Unfortunately, the Acer Shell UI seems to lack the kind of system-wide integration that HTC has achieved with their TouchFLO 3D UI.

Take a look at the video demonstration for a closer look at the Acer Shell UI.


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