Sunday, July 3, 2011
Acer LG e 110 revision
Acer page enter smartphone market after its purchase of E-TEN, has come up with some amazingly cheap handsets. Last year it offered bargain basement E101, which ran Windows phone, and this year it is trying to withdraw from much the same trick with e 110, apart from this new model running more popular Android operating system. You can pick up the phone SIM free online for just £ 150, which is an incredibly low asking price for an Android device. However, cheap always doesn't mean cheerful, so the question is the e 110 really represents good value for money?
Of course, designing a handset for this price point is low in making several compromises, but these are not everything, seen from a first glance on the handset. Smaller than the iPhone, which the e 110 more similar in size and shape of the Samsung Genio Touch. Despite the low price tag is the phone actually quite attractive to look at. There is a neat row of touch buttons parked directly under the screen and a stylish circular D-pad sits at the bottom of the handset flanked by two Clickable buttons calls.
The handset also feels quite well built and not creak and flex as well as some smaller budget models. Only slightly cheap looking metallic band running around the edge of the phone are spoiling the holiday would otherwise feel. Also unlike the E101, this model has, fortunately, a standard headphone jack on the top, and there is a microUSB port righthand edge is used for both charging and syncing the handset. We also like to see the side mounted microSD card slot is easily accessible, as many low end phones, hide it away under the battery cover.
But as soon as you switch the phone on some of the compromises be clarity. First is 2.8-inch screen. Not only is it small, but it has also received a very low resolution of only 240 x 320 pixels. As a result, see text and icons are nowhere near as sharp as they do on even mid-range Android handsets. It also makes the keyboard is quite difficult to use as keys are so small. Really, you must type very slowly in order to ensure that you do not accidentally tapping an adjacent letter to the one you want. However, to be fair, we have to say that even if the screen using tændkabler rather than capacitive technology, it is actually very sensitive to finger presses and swipes.
It is not just the screen that has been the victim of the cut backs up that phone's connectivity has a little too time to Acers decision not to add support for Wi-Fi. We have seen this before on the budget handset and Acer did the same on the older E101 model, but for us it feels like a compromise too far it means you are totally dependent on 3 G networks for surfing or picking up mail. This can be a big problem, if you don't get good 3 G reception in your home or Office. It is a pity because the phone has pretty much all the other connectivity bases covered as along with HSDPA support, there are also Bluetooth and even GPS.
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