Comments on: Acer’s Liquid Android Phone Destroying Predictions

By: Vitorio

Vitorio — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:09:40 +0000

Hi, I bought two of Acer liquid, for me and my wife and the phone is really great, the tech specs are very good. One thing that I really want to see is te Android 2 ASAP. About the impossibility to remove Acer applications, well that is not all that are blocked for removing. Also I would love a upgrader system for Mac too not only for windows, there is an upgrade for the firmware already.
But is a great piece of technology that you get for the price in this Acer, I was get surprised when get myself considering buying it, but I bought and I’m very glad I did it.

By: Somebody

Somebody — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:49:44 +0000

@acreda:
Did you read that thing about “turbo”? It says “UP TO” three times faster. That does NOT mean “overall” three times faster, it just means that they found at least ONE operation that they were able to make more efficient.

Second: if this was destined for AOSP, they wouldn’t be selling it in press releases. Its going to be proprietary and expensive junk.

By: vinod

vinod — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:35:15 +0000

Can anyone tell me where I can buy this in bangalore

By: ulvhamne

ulvhamne — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:38:29 +0000

They managed to stuff a few bugs in there that case the phone to go through battery like crazy. Restarts usually makes it behave better, and on a good run it will last 3 days with some battery to spare. On a bad day, it can drain the battery completely in a few hours.
Leaked roms seem to fix most of the annoying but small issues with the phone. and honestly, it was the first snapdragon out on market which is the only reason I got one, but man, its a nice phone. (When the more annoying bugs dont surface.)

By: acreda

acreda — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:09:14 +0000

I really hope that the android 2(really hoping .1) upgrade comes along it will be more power consurving, tell you what though if Dalvik “Turbo” is not just hype and interchangable with the stock VM then android is really going to kick a$$ on every phone!

http://androidcommunity.com/myriad-dalvik-turbo-engine-promises-up-to-3x-faster-android-apps-20100209/

By: Aux

Aux — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:25:20 +0000

I’m looking forward to buy one. There are several reasons:

1. I live in world’s ass, so we will not see Nexus One here for a very long time and when we get it the phone will be overpriced like hell. HTC Magic got here in five months time priced USD 1200. Yes, prices dropped now, but who cares about Magic in 2010?

2. Yet still our ass is in the EU and Acer Liquid has a very nice price on Expansys.

3. It has Snapdragon.

So choosing between Nexus One and Liquid latter one wins in my eyes.

By: Paul McGrath

Paul McGrath — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:38:15 +0000

I have this phone. Bought it for my wife in Dec 09. Wife wanted an iPhone. She’s happy with the Liquid A1 except for the battery life. except for battery life.

Battery on my HTC Magic lasts longer (but then I’m running cyanogen build).

Personally I don’t think much of Acer’s side shortcuts (“spinlets”). Media player is no better than Android default.

Acer power management facilities are better than Android default – but then they need to be – because battery life is not very good.

By: mbk6

mbk6 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:31:10 +0000

Maxima:
Please tell us why you think it sucks?

Do you in general dislike the phone?

Or is it the fact, that it sucks because Acer has been slow to release kernel source code, and when they have, they have released old almost useless source?

I love the Liquid, but I would like that the phone was updated faster (read Android 2.1), and they obeyed the GPL and gave functional source code, for the developers wanting this.
I choose the Liquid, because it was available at half the price of the Nexus One in my country (Denmark), none of them are available in Denmark, but the Liquid could be bought in a neighboring country at a store and I got it 2 days after ordering it. I had to buy the Nexus of Ebay, even thought it is the superior phone, comparing the price, I’m really glad I choose the Liquid.

Having said this, next time I’m buying an Android phone, it is going to be a Google Experience phone, I don’t want hardware producers putting on their custom junk, like Acer have done, giving no way to uninstall it, than to root the phone, I just want newest version plain Android AOSP.

By: justin

justin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:31:32 +0000

Nebo media player on the Liquid is pretty sweet, and whatever ui they have with it’s widget is one the coolest of any UI enhancement i’ve seen.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:50:08 +0000

Maybe their expectations were set really low…

By: maxisma

maxisma — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:00:00 +0000

The Liquid sucks.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:19:02 +0000

@tarusdg
Although John Q Public who shows up at the store would be exposed to the player that comes with the phone, there are other players for download. I am partial to MixZing myself.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:09:17 +0000

It’s much cheaper than other snapdragon phones, it gets decent reviews despite the underclocking, it’ll get android 2.0 and the version it runs is almost identical to stock android.

What’s so shocking about it selling well?

By: tarusdg

tarusdg — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:27:13 +0000

i havent played with the A1 but the media player looks much better than stock android.