The Acer Liquid A1 (S100) is a
smartphone
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manufactured by
Acer Inc. of
Taiwan
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. It was launched on 7 December 2009 in the UK. The phone is Acer's first to use the
Android operating system, backed by
Google
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. It is also the world's first Android phone to use a
Snapdragon processor.
Specifications
Hardware
The Acer Liquid A1 has a 3.5-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen display, 768 MHz Scorpion Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 processor, 256 MB of RAM and 512 MB of internal storage that can be expanded using microSD cards up to 32 GB. The phone has a 1350 mAh Li-Ion battery, 5 MP rear camera with no selfie camera. It is available in Black, White, Red colors.
Software
Acer announced their intention to release an update for the Acer Liquid in the first half of 2010 that would upgrade the Android OS 1.6 version to version 2.1 (Eclair). The update finally came in July 2010.
See also
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Acer Liquid E
The Acer Liquid E is a touchscreen smartphone developed and marketed by Acer Inc. It is the second handset designed by Acer that uses Android 2.1 (Eclair). It was introduced in February, 2010 succeeding the Acer Liquid A1.
Features
The differen ...
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Acer Liquid Metal
Acer Liquid MT (or Liquid Metal) is a smartphone from Acer that runs the Android operating system. After some rumors the smartphone was officially unveiled in October 2010. The smartphone runs Android 2.2 (Froyo) operating system and it is powere ...
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Galaxy Nexus
The Galaxy Nexus (GT-I9250) is a touchscreen Android smartphone co-developed by Google and Samsung Electronics. It is the third smartphone in the Google Nexus series, a family of Android consumer devices built by an original equipment manufactu ...
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List of Android devices
This is a list of devices that run on the Android operating system
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References
External links
Acer Smartphone official siteAcer Liquid official site
{{Acer Inc.
Liquid A1
Android (operating system) devices
Touchscreen portable media players
Mobile phones introduced in 2009