Acer beTouch E140 Mobile Phone - Full Specifications

While Acer may not be a huge smartphone player just yet, they do like to tease us with high end specifications in devices like the Liquid Metal that sadly we never see in the wild. Here’s hoping that their newest creation, the beTouch E140, actually ends up on a store shelf somewhere. For just 200 Euros Acer is saying they’ll deliver an Android 2.2 FroYo device packing a 2.8 inch screen, but with a pixelated resolution of 240 x 320 pixels, WiFi, 3G, Bluetooth, 3.2 megapixel camera without flash, 600 MHz processor, most likely the older ARM11 generation, all in a package that measures 104.5 mm x 55.8 mm x 12.8 mm and weighs only 115 grams. No word as to whether this is the stock version of Android or if there’s some customizations on top, but for that price can you really complain?

The only other player that’s even trying to compete in this space is Chinese manufacturer Huawei, who with their Ideos not only manages to deliver the same specifications for 50 Euros cheaper, but also got itself a deal with T-Mobile USA rebadged as the “Comet”. The race to the bottom, that is the bottom end of margins needed to keep a company profitable, is on thanks to Google and Qualcomm who have in essense removed many of the barriers that have held back many from entering the smartphone space.

Whether or not these cheap devices end up penetrating the Western World is irrelevant, for many people in Africa, Asia, India, China, they’re going to get either the beTouch E140 or Ideos and have internet in their pocket for the first time. The services are also not going to be powered by operators or traditional handset makers, but Google of all people. Does it now make sense why they entered the phone game and why Nokia is trying as hard as they can to enter the service arena?

GENERAL	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G Network	HSDPA 900 / 2100
	Announced	2010, December
	Status	Available. Released 2010, December

SIZE	Dimensions	104.5 x 55.8 x 12.8 mm
	Weight	95 g

DISPLAY	Type	TFT resistive touchscreen, 256K colors
	Size	240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches
		- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate - Touch-sensitive control panel

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones
	Speakerphone	Yes
		- 3.5 mm audio jack

MEMORY	Phonebook	Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
	Call records	Practically unlimited
	Internal	256 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
	Card slot	microSD, up to 32GB,

DATA	GPRS	Yes
	EDGE	Yes
	3G	HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
	Bluetooth	Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR
	Infrared port	No
	USB	Yes, microUSB v2.0

CAMERA	Primary	3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels
	Video	Yes
	Secondary	No

FEATURES	OS	Android OS, v2.2 (Froyo)
	CPU	Qualcomm MSM 7227 600 MHz processor
	Messaging	SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
	Browser	HTML
	Radio	Stereo FM radio with RDS
	Games	Yes
	Colors	Black
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support
	Java	Via third party application
		- Digital compass - Social networking integration - MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ player - MP4/WMV/H.264/H.263 player - Organizer - Voice memo - Predictive text input

BATTERY		Standard battery, Li-Ion 1300 mAh
	Stand-by	Up to 400 h (2G) / Up to 500 h (3G)
	Talk time	Up to 6 h (2G) / Up to 5 h (3G)

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