The Acer neoTouch P400 Continues Windows Mobile Tradition
By: mdoperations | Posted: 19th March 2010
After getting a preview of what the new Windows Phone 7 can do and look like at the 2010 Mobile World Congress, we couldn't help yawn at just about every old and new Windows Mobile smartphone there is today.
The demo stole whatever little thunder is left on the latest Windows smartphones and that includes the elegantly styled Acer neoTouch P400 from the Taiwan-based computer making giant and world leader in mobile computing. Its neoTouch P400 gets an identical twin, the beTouch E400 but running the more capable Android.
Acer seems to be hedging its bets on the Android with a dual product strategy for addressing both markets with identical hardware that became evident with last year's first handsets in this line. Its neoTouch gets Windows Mobile while its beTouch gets Android. It is now quite easy to compare the two OS sharing the same hardware specs. And it's clear who is winning.
Conventional Smartphone Features
The neoTouch P400 is far from being the successor to one of the world's first Snapdragon smartphones, the first neoTouch though a bit disappointing for its OS shortcomings. With a reduced size and a less muscular 600 MHz 7227 processor from Qualcomm, its feature set is close to what you can expect from an average smartphone with nary any standout, certainly not with an underwhelming Windows Mobile.
The P400 is a 3G phone using a dual band UMTS (900/2100) for the Asian and European markets and gets a tri band UMTS (850/900/2100) on some models. It comes with 3.6 Mbps HSDPA data connectivity for truly fast online activities and is also a quad band GSM radio for international roaming with Class 10 GPRS/EDGE speeds on 2G. Local data connectivity gets WiFi 802.11b/g for hotspot internet surfing and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR/A2DP with microUSB 2.0 for local data transfers.
Its display comes with just 3.2-inch HVGA, shrunk from the gorgeous 3.8 WVGA on the older neoTouch. It uses the same TFT LCD resistive touchscreen technology at 64k colors. There's the expected gravity accelerometer for auto rotate viewing convenience. Imaging is likewise minimized from 5 to 3.2 megapixel resolution taking out LED flash though you now get image stabilization and the same autofocus and geo tagging thanks to its GPS receiver with A-GPS support.
It comes with the Windows Media Player for the popular audio and video file codecs and a stereo FM radio for your mobile entertainment. It also comes with a 3.5mm AV jack for wired Hi-F0 headphones and Bluetooth 2DP for wireless stereo earphones.
The Acer neoTouch P400 comes with native support for Microsoft Exchange Server and is preloaded with social networking integration with Facebook, Blogger and media sharing sites like Flickr and YouTube. It also benefits from online music streaming with Spinlets and access to the Windows Marketplace.
You also get Internet Explorer 6 with Flash, PC, Acer Sync and Google Cloud Sync over WiFi options, a new MS search apps called Bing and a suite of navigational aids for its SatNav function like Google Maps with Street View, Latitude, Weather forecast, Traffic tracking and POI search.
It has a 512 MB ROM and 256 MB RAM for its internal memory that goes with a separate phonebook capacity that can take in practically unlimited entries and fields. There's also microSD expandability of up to 32 GB. A Li-Po 1090 mAh battery yields a modest talk time of up to 5 hours with a standby time of 400 hours when fully charged.
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