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The Acer Neotouch P300 Is A Smart Choice

Two new Acer WinMo phones were announced in Barcelona during this year’s Mobile World Congress. The Acer neoTouch P300 and P400 will both be making use of the Windows Mobile platform version 6.5.3 and look to be geared specifically for young professionals.

Judging from the whole Acer team, the Taiwanese computer and electronics corporation did design specialized phones for a number of target audiences. The high end Liquid e is for Android lovers, the beTouch E110 for persons needing an entry level smart phone and the neoTouch P300 for young professionals who prefer using a full QWERTY keyboard over a full touch screen mobile phone.

Power inside the P300

Acer’s P300 is no pushover when it comes to processing power. With a Qualcomm MSM7225 528 MHz core and running the Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5.3 operating system, the smart phone has all the makings of a quick and reliable office companion. It is well-matched with both 2G (GSM) as well as 7.2 Mbps 3G (HSDPA) networks.

Wi-Fi connectivity is supported as well as EDGE. Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP is well-matched with the smart phone for quick transfers. Memory for the smart phone comes at a ordinary 256 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM. It is expandable with the use of micro SD card that can increase the memory up to a whopping 32 GB. The phone is powered with a Li-Po 970 mAh battery so if fully charged, it can last up to 4 hours of nonstop talk time.

Social Networking at its Finest

The neoTouch P300 truly shines in instant communication. Acer Connected Contacts allows users to see status updates, new messages or basically anything that was newly posted by simply editing their friends’ contact details and count their Flickr and Blogger fiscal statement.

A full communication suite was also included in the P300. Thanks to it being a Windows Mobile device, Microsoft powers the smart phone with Microsoft Chat email support, Windows Live Messenger in addition to the traditional voice calls and text messaging capabilities of the mobile phone.

Most new mobile phones manage to contain integrated social networking site functions one way or another. The neoTouch P300 is no exception with the built in Facebook app. The app is competent of performing every basic action its first PC counterpart is able to do, from persona sharing, profile and status updates, posting wall comments to message composition.

Take Your Office with You

Microsoft’s Pocket Office eliminates the need to be in front of the office whenever files have to be edited or sent. For persons who are busy on the field, Word is available to edit vital text documents. Presentations can also be made on the glide using the mobile Power Point as well as Excel for graphs. OneNote is your best friend for lists and random scribbles and Adobe PDF Booklover to open PDF files for office investigate.

The Acer Sync feature also helps increase productivity by preventing file loss through periodical backups. The practical system allows users to easily and instantly back up files to their laptops via Microsoft Outlook or through the Cloud wireless service.

Overall, the Acer neoTouch P300 looks to be a very promising smart phone for young professionals. Not only is it user friendly, it also packs a lot of efficiency-enhancing features to lessen stress in the office.

Acer NeoTouch F1 Mobile Phone Review – A Snappy F1 Dragon For Any Knight

For a beginner – the computer giant Acer is by now showing its ability in the mobile phone market. Just one step behind the Toshiba TG1, the Acer neoTouch S200 (announced under the codename of F1) trots the world using it’s whomping 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.

Designed to satisfy the most exacting of clients, the neoTouch is quite an impressive small machine, sure to surprise anyone into high end smartphones.

Released in October 2009, the Acer neoTouch can be used with AT&T and T-Mobile USA. It works in 2G on GSM 850/900/1800/1900 and in 3G on HSDPA 900/1900 2100 and will attract your attention using trembling or downloadable polyphonic , MP3 and WAV ringtones. It does have a Speakerphone and can take a 3.5mm audiojack for listening to the Stereo FM Radio with RDS.

It measures a mere 118.6 x 63 x 12mm and weighs in at 130g. While the exterior is plastic, it certainly does not feel so, but it is inclined to attract fingerprints, a touch Acer will want to address in possibility models.

The TFT resistive touchscreen (with 65K colours) is 3.8inch (480×800 pixels) in size, and away from each other from the need to tilt the handset when viewing it in strong light, suits most purposes very well. It uses the Acer 3.0 User Boundary and Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotating and has a proximity sensor for auto turn-off.

For persons who have a need to find the nearest Starbucks first thing in the morning, the phone includes geo-tagging – one example of location based services. Another use is for the techno-yuppy who likes to take pictures and then immediately upload them to Facebook or Flickr, the 5 megapixel camera (2560×1920 pixels) with autofocus, LED flash and geo-tagging makes this possible, as does the VGA video capability. There is no lesser camera.

In terms of memory, the Acer neoTouch allows practically unlimited phonebook, call record and photocall entries and fields, with a 256MB RAM and 512MB ROM available internally and up to 32GB using microSD.

Data transfer takes place via class 10 GPRS (4+1/3+2 slots) at 32-48 kbps, and class 10 EDGE at 236.8 kbps. On 3G it transfers on HSDPA at 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA at 5.76 Mbps. It offers WLAN in the form of Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP. While it does not have an infra-red port, it does have miniUSB.

Using Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional and powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1GHz processor, the handset allows for threaded view SMS, MMS, Email and Instant Messaging, uses an HTML Browser, plays games and helps you find your way with GPS with A-GPS support. It has Java MIDP 2.0 and can play MP4/WMV/H.264/H.263 and MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+. It has Facebook and Flickr integration and for the more serious moments in your working day, Pocket Office with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and PDF Viewer. Voice Memo and T9 text input complete the deck.

Battery time is up to 400 hours on stand by and up to 5 hours talk time.

When all is said and done – perhaps the 17″ man bag has had it’s day -this is a small Acer PC that also happens to make phone calls…

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It plays MP4 – the latest and greatest movie format (also used by iPods ), and it allows for a scintillating social life – you can take photos and immediately upload to Facebook and Flickr.