Acer announced Intel Atom-powered Liquid C1

Acer announced it's Intel Powered Liquid C1 Android smartphone event in Thailan.The device is powered with latest mobile Intel Atom Z2420 chipset,which was which was announced recently in CES earlier this month.

It is not a HD display device but it is nicely equipped.It packs a 4.3-inch IPS screen of qHD resolution (960x540 pixels).At the back it has an 8MP camera with auto focus.The Intel Atom Z2420m chipset (codenamed as Lexington) has a main x86 processor, running at 1.2GHz. This is a single-core CPU with support for Hyper-Threading and reasonable performance at a budget price.

        The chipset enables hardware-accelerated 1080p encoding,decoding and also enables camera to catch 5 still images in a second.The device will come with Android ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS on board in packing but there is information whether it will be upgraded to Android JellyBean or not but to get good selling results it can switch Android ICS to JellyBean like other mobile companies.

The device can be launched in this February  initially in Thailand and then  in other South Asian regions. It will be priced around 9,990 baht (around USD$335)

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