By Ketan Pratap | Updated: 23 February 2016 14:30 IST
Acer on Monday launched the new Liquid Jade 2 flagship smartphone at the
side-lines of MWC 2016 in Barcelona. The Taiwanese manufacturer
alongside also revealed its new Liquid Zest series smartphones, the
Liquid Zest and Liquid Zest 4G.
The company has not announced pricing
or availability details of the Acer Liquid Jade 2 smartphone. However,
it has confirmed that the Acer Liquid Zest will be available in EMEA in
April at a starting price of EUR 109 (approximately Rs. 8,250) and the
Acer Liquid Zest 4G will go on sale in EMEA regions starting May priced
at EUR 149 (approximately Rs. 11,250).
The Acer Liquid Jade 2
features a 5.5-inch (1080x1920 pixels) full-HD Amoled display with
176-degree wide-viewing angles. It sports Corning Gorilla Glass and
comes with Zero Air Gap technology, which the company claims will help
in improved readability under sunlight.
The handset is powered by a
hexa-core Snapdragon 808 processor with Adreno 418 GPU and 3GB of RAM.
The smartphone packs 32GB of inbuilt storage and runs Android OS
(version not detailed). One of the highlights of the device is it
supports up to 1TB hybrid storage, which integrates local storage with
cloud storage. The Liquid Jade 2 sports a 21-mgapixel rear camera with
f/2.2 aperture, dual LED flash, and 4K video recording support. There is
an 8-megapixel front camera on board as well.
The front-facing
camera on the device supports an 84-degree wide angle, and also sports a
"Pause N Shoot" selfie mode, which detects face automatically and
starts a countdown of three seconds for taking shots. The smartphone
supports 4G LTE Cat.6 apart from 3G, GPRS/ EDGE, GPS/ A-GPS, Bluetooth,
and Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac.
The Liquid Jade 2 features DTS
Headphone:X technology for surround sound experience with any pair of
headphones, according to Acer. The new Jade series smartphone from Asus
packs USB Type-C port.
The Acer Liquid Zest (seen above), on the other hand,
features a 5-inch HD (720x1280 pixels) IPS display and is powered by a
1.3GHz quad-core processor. It runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow and comes
with DTS Sound Studio, which the company claims offers "higher vocal
clarity and more natural details while on the move." On the camera
front, the smartphone packs an 8-megapixel rear autofocus camera with
LED Flash and a 5-megapixel front camera.
There are few
differences between the Acer Liquid Zest 4G and its 3G variant. The 4G
model is powered by a 1GHz quad-core processor and packs DTS HD Premium
Sound technology. Both the Liquid Zest smartphones come pre-installed
with Acer GameZone.
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