Budget smartphone is designed for smartphone-o-phobes
So the Acer Liquid Z2 is not going to set the mobile world alight, but we quite like it all the
same.
It's designed primarily as a first baby step into the smartphone world and comes with some
helpful features to make the transition as painless as possible.
It's a fairly dinky little thing to look at and comes with a 3.5-inch 480 x 320 display, 1GHz
single-core processor, and a 3MP camera.
As a resolutely budget device, it does not feel like a premium smartphone, but it's small and
light and certainly isn't horrible to look at and fondle in the hand. There are uglier phones
out there that cost twice as much. That said, it is quite a fat device for something so small,
but at least it's not heavy.
The great thing about this little phone is that even your mum's silly friend who dresses too
young for her age and pretends not to understand the TV remote will be able to use it. It
comes with an app called 'Quick Mode' which is essentially an app launcher designed for
people who don't know what Android is and don't want to know.
Open it up and it gives you all of the main settings, functions and apps in one menu. Things
like Bluetooth on/off, camera, browser etc. All of the things a technophobe needs to make
use of a smartphone without trying, basically.
This all runs on top of a mostly vanilla-flavoured build of Android Jelly Bean 4.1, and even
though it has low-end specs, it still manages to be nippy and responsive to the touch. There
was no sluggishness, and the camera - which "launches in just one second" - was able to
fire off snap after snap without any focus or save lag.
source : techradar
So the Acer Liquid Z2 is not going to set the mobile world alight, but we quite like it all the
same.
It's designed primarily as a first baby step into the smartphone world and comes with some
helpful features to make the transition as painless as possible.
It's a fairly dinky little thing to look at and comes with a 3.5-inch 480 x 320 display, 1GHz
single-core processor, and a 3MP camera.
As a resolutely budget device, it does not feel like a premium smartphone, but it's small andlight and certainly isn't horrible to look at and fondle in the hand. There are uglier phones
out there that cost twice as much. That said, it is quite a fat device for something so small,
but at least it's not heavy.
The great thing about this little phone is that even your mum's silly friend who dresses tooyoung for her age and pretends not to understand the TV remote will be able to use it. It
comes with an app called 'Quick Mode' which is essentially an app launcher designed for
people who don't know what Android is and don't want to know.
Open it up and it gives you all of the main settings, functions and apps in one menu. Thingslike Bluetooth on/off, camera, browser etc. All of the things a technophobe needs to make
use of a smartphone without trying, basically.
This all runs on top of a mostly vanilla-flavoured build of Android Jelly Bean 4.1, and eventhough it has low-end specs, it still manages to be nippy and responsive to the touch. There
was no sluggishness, and the camera - which "launches in just one second" - was able to
fire off snap after snap without any focus or save lag.
source : techradar
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