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Acer Liquid X1 Review

Score: 64.3 / 100

Acer Liquid X1 is a high-level cellphone, packed with an enormous 5.7-inches touch-screen, a very powerful 2000 MHz Octa-Core CPU, and 2 cameras, a 13 mega-pixels back-facing camera and a 2 mega-pixels front facing camera. Let's take a better view of what this cellphone has to offer.

This phone is offerred in two different color options, black and red. Acer made a very nice optimization job making this cellphone weight only 5.64 ounces. This cellphone is just 0.33 inches thick, making its way into the thinnest cellphones podium.

Acer decided to build this cellphone using a very fast Octa-Core processor speeding at 2 GHz, packed into a MediaTek MT6592 chip and a big 2 GB of RAM. This phone comes with a 16 GB interesting internal storage memory and an external SD slot, enough to install hundreds of apps and games without any trouble.

Acer equipped this phone with a good looking 5.7 inches screen, and a 1280 x 720 (HD) resolution, which makes it hard to distinguish the pixels composing the screen. This screen uses IPS LCD capacitive technology, and has multi-touch detection.

This phone counts with Wi-Fi connection (which it can share with other devices acting as a mobile hotspot), LTE 4G high speed internet connection and fast 3G connectivity, supported by HSPA, HSUPA and EDGE technologies. The Acer Liquid X1 uses a SIM card for GSM carriers.

The Acer Liquid X1 has two cameras, a 13 megapixels back facing camera and a 2 MP front-facing camera. This cellphone can also film 1920x1080 Full HD videos. To complete the camera, it also counts with a few nice characteristics: flash, auto-focus, geo tagging and face detection shooting.

This cellphone also comes with a couple of cool features like Bluetooth (4.0), GPS (Global Positioning System) and Radio, and multiple sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

This phone counts with a high capacity 2700 mAh battery, enough to provide this device with an extremely long battery life. According to Acer, this device has an estimated talk time of 6 hours and a stand by time of 250 hs.

The Acer Liquid X1 is priced $ 155, quite a high price for a cellphone this level. No matter if you want this device mainly for social networks and internet browsing, will use it to play games, you love taking photos or want a device for work, you will probably be very happy with this cellphone.



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Specifications

Device Type:Phone
Brand:Acer
Operating System (OS):Android 4.4.2
Dimensions:7.26 x 3.16 x 0.33 inchesMetric18.44 x 8.03 x 0.84 cmImperial
Weight:5.64 ouncesMetric159.89 gImperial
Colors:Black and Red
Scratch Resistant Glass:Yes
Price:$ 155.00

Display

Screen Type:IPS LCD (16M colors)
Size:5.7 inchesMetric14.5 cmImperial
Resolution:720 x 1280 pixels (HD)
Pixel density:258 pixels per inchMetric101.57 pixels per cmImperial
Touch screen:Capacitive, Multi-touch

Hardware

Chipset:MediaTek MT6592
Processor:ARM Cortex-A7 (Octa-Core 2000 MHz)
RAM Memory:2 GB
Graphics Processor:Mali-450MP4
Internal Memory:16 GB
SD Card Slot:microSD, microSDHC (up to 32 GB)

Battery

Removable:Yes
Capacity:2700 mAh
Stand-by Time:250 hours
Talk Time:6 hours

Camera

Back camera:13 megapixels
    Aperture:f/1.80
    Flash:Yes
Front camera:2 megapixels
Max video resolution:1920 x 1080 (Full HD)
Camera features:Auto-Focus, Face Detection Shooting and Geo Tagging

Networks

Wi-Fi:Yes
    Mobile Hotspot:Yes
SIM Card Type:SIM
LTE (4G) Bands:1800 (band 3), 2600 (band 7)
UMTS Bands:900, 2100
GSM Bands:850, 900, 1800, 1900
Technologies:LTE (4G), HSPA, HSUPA, EDGE, GPRS and GSM

Other Features

Bluetooth:Version 4.0
GPS:Yes
Radio:FM Radio
Sensors:Accelerometer, Compass, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor