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It's not exactly major news but if you've been waiting for the black Acer (A1) Liquid then you can get it now. It's available for around £330 ($537 USD) on a couple of UK e-tailers (Clove and Handtec) at this very moment. This Android handset is actually pretty cheap considering the specs, but the Nexus One is actually a tad cheaper and could be the better option.

[Engadget]

So, the Acer A1 Liquid has just been launched in the UK and it has just passed the FCC with 3G bands for North America. The good news here is that Acer has just mentioned that the Liquid will be running Android 2.0 in 2010. It'll be shipping with it, so I don't think right now is a good time to buy one...

I'm assuming that they'll make the current ones upgradeable, but don't quote be on that.

[Phandroid]
Picture Source: Mobile Magazine

Well, well, well, what do we have here. It looks like the Acer (A1) Liquid has just passed the FCC (filing here) with 850 / 1900MHz bands. We already know all about this Android-based handset, since it's been available in the UK for a couple of days now. Unfortunately, it'll have the same specs and that would be great if the Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU wasn't underclocked to 768MHz. There's rumours going around that AT&T will launch this, but we'll just wait and see. AT&T still doesn't have an Android device.

Maybe Canada will get it...

[Boy Genius]

There's not much for me to say here but it looks like the Acer Liquid aka the A1 is set to launch in the next week. This handset will come with a 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen display, a 5MP camera, aGPS support, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a 768MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU - that should be running 1GHz, but it's underclocked.

[Mobile Magazine]

It looks like we've just got confirmation about the CPU speed of the Snapdragon in the Acer Liquid (A1) handset. Well, it'll be running Android 1.6 and will actually sport an underclocked 768MHz CPU. This definitely sucks, but if you're interested in the rest of the specs you can check out the picture above. I won't reiterate it.

[Engadget Mobile]

Although there's been the debate on whether this handset has a 768MHz or a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU not even Expansys listing of the handset could confirm it. Instead, they played it safe with a "Qualcomm Snapdragon" listing - not mentioning the speed.

Anyways, what's important here is that Expansys has their listing for this handset already. Expansys now has the Acer Liquid (A1) available for €379.99 ($568 USD) on pre-orders, but they do mention that it will be available on November 18th. That's definitely not bad for what you're getting - in fact I'd get one if I had the money. Check out the listing here!

[Unwired View]

Another Android handset has just been spotted on Expansys here, it's the Acer A1. The product listing states that this handset has a 768MHz Qualcomm 8250 CPU and Android 2.0 Donut, which is pretty surprising. To make things even better, this handset is available for pre-orders here for just €389 ($571 USD).

Update: This morning we heard that the Acer A1 is now available for pre-orders. The full spec sheet is below, courtesy of Unwired View.

• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
• Tri-band HSPA (850/1900/2100 MHz)
• 3.5 inch WVGA touchscreen display
• Wi-Fi
• GPS
• Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
• 3.5mm headset jack
• 5MP autofocus camera
• 512MB ROM, 256MB RAM
• MicroSD card support
• Talk time: up to 300 minutes
• Standby time: up to 400 hours
• 115 x 62.5 x 12.5 mm
• 135 grams

[Engadget]

This is what DigiTimes had to say. "Acer plans to launch four smartphones, the A1, C1/E1, F1 and L1, at the end of September and in the fourth quarter of this year, outsourcing the production to Taiwan-based Compal Communications and Inventec Appliances, according to sources at Taiwan handset component suppliers." Does that get you excited? The most exciting handset here could be the one pictured above, the Acer F1 with its Qualcomm 1GHz CPU. It could also be the Acer A1 (below) that runs Android.

Either way, 3 of the 4 smartphones launching from Acer run Windows Mobile and we should expect them all in the second half of this year.

[DigiTimes]

Acer is actually looking quite strong this year with their new handsets. The only thing bringing them down is the fact that most of them are running on WinMo 6.1 - which is terrible. Acer mentioned today that they are aiming to be one of the top 5 smartphone vendors by 2012. That's a huge feat for them, but if they make it there I'd be happy for them. Before I talk about Acer's 8 new phones, I should inform you all that they mentioned that it is "likely" that we will see their Android phone by the end of this year and that's great news.

The 8 phones that have been announced for the Singapore market today is the: DX900 ($530 USD), DX650 ($397 USD), X960 ($463 USD), F900, M900, F1, L1, and C1. The DX900, DX650, and X960 are now available for the aforementioned price. The price for the F900 and the M900 have not been mentioned yet, but they are expected in May. The F1, L1, and C1 are also expected this year and one of these could be the so-called Android handset. We've already heard that the Acer A1 could be running Android and that it is expected this September, but Acer didn't mention it today so we'll just have to see what happens. On a side note, I wonder what happened to the Acer E1? Anyways, take a look at some specs below:

• 2.8“ WVGA touch screen
• Samsung SC3 6400 533 MHz Processor
• 256 MB Flash ROM, 128 MB SDRAM
• Dual-SIM with SIM 1 supporting HSDPA / UMTS 2100/1900/850 MHz and quad-band GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, and SIM 2 supporting GSM tri-band 900/1800/1900
• 1.3 megapixel autofocus camera, VGA front camera
• Wi-Fi, BT 2.0+EDR, GPS
• Windows Mobile 6.1 Pocket PC Phone edition with Spb Mobile Shell v2.1

• Dual-Face design with touchscreen on one side and keypad on the other
• 2.8“ QVGA touch screen
• Samsung SC3 6410 533 MHz Processor
• 256 MB Flash ROM, 128 MB SDRAM
• 2 megapixel fixed focus camera
• GPS, Wi-Fi, BT 2.0+EDR
• Windows Mobile 6.1 with Spb Mobile Shell v2.1
• Standby time 150h / Talk time: 4h

• Samsung SC3 6410 533 MHz Processor
• 256 MB Flash ROM, 128 MB SDRAM
• High speed HSPA connectivity
• 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera, 0.3 megapixel front-facing camera
• Wi-Fi, BT 2.0+EDR, GPS
• Windows Mobile 6.1, Outlook, Office, widget-based Acer Shell v2.0 UI

• Samsung SC3 6410 533 MHz Processor
• 256 MB Flash ROM, 128 MB SDRAM
• 3.8″ WVGA touch screen
• GSM/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
• HSDPA/HSUPA: 2100/1900/850 Mhz
• 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera
• Wi-Fi, BT 2.0+EDR, GPS
• Windows Mobile 6.1, Outlook, Office, widget-based Acer Shell v2.0 UI

• Physical QWERTY keyboard
• 3.8“ WVGA touch screen
• GSM/EDGE: Quad-band GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
• HSDPA/HSUPA: 2100/1900/850 Mhz
• Fingerprint reader
• 5 megapixel auto-focus camera
• Wi-Fi, BT 2.0+EDR, GPS
• Windows Mobile 6.1, Outlook, Office, widget-based Acer Shell v2.0 UI

[Boy Genius, Engadget, ZDNet Blogs]

With recent rumours of an Acer A1 running Android to be released this September, the F1 may be one of the phones that will be released alongside the aforementioned A1. According to some newer rumours the pictured Acer F1 is said to be packing an 800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. It is a little bit slower than the speedy Toshiba TG01, but it's still quick. The F1 will be running on WinMo 6.5 and looks like it will be a full touchscreen. It's expected to be released for €560 ($760 USD) this September. I'm excited to see a full spec sheet on this device.

[Engadget]

Pictured above is the Acer C1 which could be one of Acer's phones expected to be released this year alongside their Android device. But according to Philippine Business Mirror, the Acer A1 is expected to run Android and is expected to be released in September of this year. It will launch alongside 3 other handsets which could include the C1 (pictured above), F1, E1, L1 or just about any other Acer handset. I hope the A1 is a nice-looking touchscreen phone because I don't want to see Android running on a crappy device. According to analysts, Android is going to surpass the iPhone's market share by 2012.

[Engadget]