Acer neoTouch P300: Power in Your Pocket

During the 2010 Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona last February, the Taiwanese computer and electronics corporation Acer Incorporated has failed to impress with their Android OS Liquid A1 clone, the Liquid e. With only a few updates added to the new Liquid, some fans of the little green robot were disappointed. There is good news however, because Acer has more up their sleeve.

Two more Android phones were shown to the public. The Acer beTouch E400 is a mid-range phone and the E110 is a mobile phone for those who are still new to using smart phones. Their Windows Mobile counterparts, the Acer neoTouch P300 and P400 are intended for young professionals looking for efficient and reliable devices to support their lifestyle.

Behind the Efficient P300

Acer's new WinMo smart phone runs on an ideally fast Qualcomm MSM7225 528 MHz processor. It uses the 6.5.3 version of the Microsoft Windows Mobile platform. Connectivity is no problem since the neoTouch P300 is capable of connecting to 2G networks, 3G (7.2 Mbps) HSDPA networks and has EDGE and Wi-Fi support. The smart phone has Bluetooth ver. 2.0 with A2DP compatibility as well as a GPS with A-GPS built in. The vanilla memory size for the phone is 256 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM but it can be increased with the use of a micro SD (the memory can go up to a size of 32 GB).

The Microsoft Advantage

From its office productivity suites to its built-in multimedia player, the neoTouch P300 is fully backed up by Microsoft.

For on the go document editing and file viewing, Microsoft Pocket Office gets the job done. This handy suite comes with a compact Microsoft Word for text compositions, OneNote for lists and scribbling short notes, Power Point to beef up your presentation design, Excel to open spreadsheets and Adobe PDF reader to read Portable Document Format files.

Microsoft Live Messenger is installed to help you keep in touch with your colleagues and to allow you to run an office from the palm of your hand. For internet surfing and online media viewing needs, Internet Explorer 6 is the browser of choice for the neoTouch P300. It has Flash Light support and the display is streamlined for ease of use.

Multimedia in the Palm of Your Hand

The player of choice equipped into Acer's P300 smart phone is the Windows Media Player 10. It is capable of playing audio files using the WMA, MP3, WAV, eAAC+ formats and videos with the WMV, MP4, H.264 and H.263 file formats. The smart phone also has a shortcut to Windows Marketplace in order to allow for quick application, software or game downloads.

To really fire up your audio experience though, Acer has included Spinlets. Spinlets is a free internet radio streaming service that offers music from various major music labels. The icing on the cake though is that this service allows you to instantly post and share your songs to social networking sites such as Facebook.

Acer did a good job utilizing Microsoft's office-friendly systems. But although the Acer neoTouch P300 has all the potential for a stable and efficient WinMo phone, the steadily increasing hype for the Windows Phone 7 series devices may just overshadow the smart phone's highlights.

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