At an event in Thailand, Intel and Acer presented a new Android smartphone. The Acer Liquid C1 makes use of the latest mobile Intel Atom Z2420 chipset, which was only recently announced - back at CES earlier this month actually.
The Acer Liquid C1 is not a high-end model but it's still nicely equipped. At the front there's a 4.3-inch IPS screen with qHD (960x540) resolution. On the back there is an 8MP auto focus camera.
The Intel Atom Z2420m (codenamed Lexington) has a main processor, running at 1.2GHz. It's a single-core chipset with support for Hyper-Threading. It's meant to deliver reasonable performance at a tempting price point - great for emerging smartphone markets. The multimedia prowess of the chipset allows it to offer hardware-accelerated 1080p encoding and decoding plus it allows the Liquid C1 camera to snap 5 still images in a second. Technically, the chipset also supports dual SIM/dual Standby functionality, but we don't have information whether that's utilized on the Acer Liquid C1.
Unfortunately, for now the smartphone comes with only Android ICS preinstalled. There is no word on future updates to more recent versions of Android, but we haven't seen a proper press release from Acer either, so there's still hope.
The Acer Liquid C1 should launch this February - initially in Thailand, and later on in other countries. It will be priced around 9,990 baht, which makes for around USD$335.
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