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Rogers to exclusively launch Acer “Liquid e” this Spring

By Ian Hardy on February 22, 2010 in Mobile News, Rogers Wireless News, Various News

It looks like the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 is not the only Android-powered goodness coming to Rogers this year. They have announced that the Acer Liquid e smartphone will be coming to Canada this Spring.

The Liquid e was officially shown last week at the World Mobile Conference in Barcelona and has the anticipated Android OS 2.1, 768MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 3.5-inch WVGA high-definition capacitive touch screen, 5 megapixel camera with video capabilities, WiFi, Full HTML browser, GPS, Bluetooth, 3.5mm headset jack, can hold up to 32GB with a microSD card. Overall dimensions are 116x54x12.75mm and weighs 135 grams.

John Boynton, Executive Vice-President, Marketing, Rogers said “Rogers is very excited to be partnering with a highly respected global brand like Acer to bring the Acer Liquid e to Canadians consumers. By exclusively launching, the first Acer smartphone in Canada, we are once again demonstrating our industry-leading ability to be first to bring to market the latest and greatest mobile devices Canadians are asking for, and adding to our already impressive line-up of Android-enabled devices.”

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Discussion

15 comments for “Rogers to exclusively launch Acer “Liquid e” this Spring”

  1. I had only problems with Acer computers. I don’t know their phones will be better.

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    Posted by Patrick | February 22, 2010, 9:39 am

  2. Yet another substandard phone comes to Canada through one of the “big three”….. *sigh*. I’m still waiting on something worth buying out of contract to be available to us poor Canadians.

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    Posted by Braden Klassen | February 22, 2010, 9:43 am

  3. So Rogers is launching the Acer Liquid E to compete against Telus’ Motorola Milestone which has a faster processor and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard? Yeah, good luck.

    That aside, the Liquid E does look nice. It is a bit bulky though. The best thing is that it runs the latest Android 2.1 introduced with the Nexus One.

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    Posted by Ahmed Eltawil | February 22, 2010, 9:44 am

  4. While the phone has impressive specs, IMO, it is the ugliest phone I’ve seen in a while.

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    Posted by Lexcyn | February 22, 2010, 9:47 am

  5. Ahmed, I believe you are mistaken. Liquid runs an under-clocked Snapdragon, but it is still clocked faster than the Milestone’s OMAP3430. Benchmarks show the Liquid beat the Milestone in nearly every test.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKZoXJjixW0

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    Posted by Nick | February 22, 2010, 10:12 am

  6. I don’t see why anyone would want to buy this Acer phone over the Nexus One (except the availability of the Nexus One compatible with Canadian 3G networks).

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    Posted by Mathieu | February 22, 2010, 10:14 am

  7. Meh, Acer just doesn’t look as sexy as the newer HTC phones.

    Pretty good specs but why underclock?

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    Posted by Pearl | February 22, 2010, 11:28 am

  8. Why is no one bringing the HTC HD2 …sigh

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    Posted by Jeeverz | February 22, 2010, 1:15 pm

  9. BTW, the HTC Dream and HTC Magic from Rogers are also underclocked to 384 MHz (528 MHz CPU).
    Like the iPhone 3GS is underclocked to 600 MHz (833 MHz CPU).
    It’s a very common way to increase the battery life … in the specs anyway.

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    Posted by Mathieu | February 22, 2010, 2:25 pm

  10. “Pretty good specs but why underclock?”

    Improve battery life.
    I am sure with custom roms you could clock it back up although I am not sure it would be necessary.

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    Posted by Erik Berkun-Drevnig | February 22, 2010, 4:25 pm

  11. Big mistake by Rogers. Rogers should have gone for the HTC Desire which is clearly the superior 2.1 phone.

    I suppose them getting the Xperia X10 was one of the reasons they didn’t want to undercut their own sales by grabbing the HTC Desire.

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    Posted by Sined | February 23, 2010, 2:21 am

  12. the phone does seem bulky, but its only 0.2mm thicker than the iphone 3gs

    …and about the same height/width

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    Posted by Jr Bishop | February 23, 2010, 3:40 am

  13. Pretty ugly phone imo, slapping the big acer logo on there really doesn’t help either. The specs are ok, but compared to the X10 I don’t see what this phone has going for it besides possibly being cheaper, and running stock 2.1 instead of Sony’s customized 1.6, but I’m sure the X10 will be running hacked ROMs in no time anyway.

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    Posted by Zero K | February 23, 2010, 12:46 pm

  14. It comes in Red, white, and black

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    Posted by Erik Berkun-Drevnig | February 23, 2010, 4:07 pm

  15. Rogers porved again that canada will always be years behind in cell phone technology… Where are the real handset (Nexus One, Desire, X10, HD2…)?

    Pathetic… can’t wait to get out of my contract with theses loosers.

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    Posted by stg | March 1, 2010, 7:50 am

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