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A handset from Acer has just hit the FCC and it's the beTouch E130 Android-based handset that we saw at Computex earlier this year. Sadly, it'll be running Android 1.6 but it'll be one of the few Android smartphones out there with a physical QWERTY keyboard (without having to slide it out or flip it out). Other specs are a 2.6-inch touchscreen display, an underpowered 416MHz CPU, 256MB of RAM, 512MB of ROM, a 3.2MP camera, and WiFi support.

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It looks like all the craze at Computex isn't amazingly thin laptops and prototype tablets. Acer, for the first time, has just revealed their beTouch E130 handset. This is sporting a 2.6-inch QVGA touchscreen display, a QWERTY keyboard, an optical trackpad, WiFi support, 512MB of ROM, a microSD card slot, 256MB of RAM, a 3.2MP camera, an ST Ericsson 416MHz CPU, 3G connectivity, and Android. It was running Android 1.6 when it was on display but it could be getting an upgrade to either version 2.1 or 2.2 before it launches. The price and release date, of course, weren't mentioned.

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