The neoTouch Gets QWERTY with the Acer neoTouch P300

After a spectacular demo of the new Windows Phone 7 series, just about everyone at the recent Mobile World Congress lost interest in looking at the new Windows Mobile smartphones unveiled in the event.
Without any clear upgrade path to it from their current offerings, mobile phone makers who continue to make them might was well forget about releasing them as the new smartphones running the new OS is expected to arrive in time for the holidays of 2010.

In the meantime, we remain lukewarm at the Acer booth offering their new line of Windows Mobile smartphones like the Acer neoTouch P300. It doesn't help that these phones are not upscale but are as average as any without a single standout to drop our jaws.

The P300 does stand out, but only within the neoTouch and beTouch families as the first among them to sport a tactile full QWERTY slider form factor. But let there be no mistake, they are as capable and competent smartphone that does the job.

Without a pricing information for its April release, we don't expect this to get more than a €250 SIM-free price tag.

Average QWERTY Features

Housed in a QWERTY slider body measuring 110 x 55 x 15.1 mm and weighing a heavy 130g, the neoTouch P300 gets a Qualcomm MSM7225 processor at 528 MHz running the Widows Mobile 6.5.3 Pro and supported with a 256 MB RAM and 512 ROM expandable with its microSD slot. It is a quad band GSM with class 10 GPRS/EDGE data connectivity on the 2G network and also a single band UMTS with a 7.2 Mbps HSDPA connectivity on 3G.

Local data transfers can be done with its Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR and microUSB 2.0. SatNav gets built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS support. Its 970 mAh Li-Po battery can bring you no more than 4 hours of talk time and 400 hours in standby when fully charged.

It comes with a 3.2-inch TFT LCD resistive touchscreen with Wide QVGA resolution the usual 65k colors that Windows Mobile can support and gets a gravity accelerometer for auto rotate landscape or portrait viewing convenience.

Its multimedia functions start with a capable imaging feature supported by a 3.2 megapixel autofocus shooter with geo tagging from its GPS. There's also video recording but remains unspecified when announced.

There's the expected Windows Media Player 10 supporting the popular media file formats but no stereo FM receiver. You can listen using regular wired HI-Fi headset from its 3.5mm audio jack or go wireless using its A2DP support.

The Acer neoTouch P300 is preloaded with a document viewer for PDF ad MS Office files, social networking apps for instant live updates with Facebook, the Internet Explorer 6 with Flash for browsing, Windows Live Messenger, Active Sync and Acer Sync and Gameloft games. It GPS gets Satellite Data Update and Google navigational aids like Google Maps, Latitude, Street View, Traffic tracking and POI Search. You get music streaming via Acer Spinlets, video streaming via YouTube client and access to the Windows Marketplace.

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