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The UK mobile phone market just got a new smart kid on the block and a very quick one – the Acer neoTouch F1 (neoTouch s200). It runs the Windows Mobile 6.5 on the powerful Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon processor clocked at 1GHz. Beauty, Brains and Brawn epitomize the new Acer flagship smartphone.
It comes in a dark brown color with a stylishly trendy and elegant slim body measuring just 118.6mm x 63mm x 12mm and weighing 135g. It has high end features that leave little compromises for the price and runs on one of the most powerful processors on a smartphone to date. All these get packaged on a friendly SIM-free price of ₤295 or free with just a 2-year ₤25 monthly contract with O2.
Really fast
Thanks to the powerful Qualcomm QSD 8250 Snapdragon processor and associated chipset, the new Acer smartphone blazes through apps and the internet with unparalleled speed. It allows true multitasking support from the Windows Mobile OS that allow the same look and feel you get from a laptop or desktop PC. With widgets on the homescreen, you can go from one application to another, jumps from one to an internet site or open multiple files without having to exit any.
Social networking sites like Facebook gets integrated into the phone with widgets that instantly let you access the sites instantly. With its UMTS 3G/HSDPA/HSUPA data connectivity complementing its speedy processor, you get a no-wait surfing and data downloading over the internet. You can download files, watch a movie or listen to your mp3 music, get your emails and edit your phone book all at the same time.
A Total Multimedia Experience
Multimedia features start with its upscale 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash and geo-tagging courtesy of its AGPD support. Full VGA recording at a high cinema-quality 30 frames per second is supported as well as streaming video on its internet browser. Images and video benefit from its gorgeous 3.8” TFT LCD resistive touchscreen that supports 64k colors. It comes with an accelerometer that automatically shifts from portrait to landscape and back with the corresponding handset orientation. Brightness automatically adjusts to its surrounding light with an ambient light sensor. It also has a proximity sensor that disables the touchscreen sensitivity when holding the handset against your face in a call.
You get the Windows Media player that support all the popular audio and video file formats and allows synchronization with your laptop Windows media player content. There’s Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP support for using wireless stereo earphones as well as a 3.5mm output jack for your home Hi-Fi headsets.
PDA Richness and other top features
A smartphone won’t really get to place without its PDA strength office features that let you do office work on the road. The neoTouch F1 has capable document viewers for your PDF and MS Office files like Excel and Word as well a ZIP file manager. Security is not a problem as the OS allows data encryption both on the handset and memory cards when storing files. You also get remote data wipe facility and remote file storage though MyPhone services online.
There’s WiFi 802.11 b/g for high speed wireless internet access in hotspots as well as high speed local data transfers from its Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR feature. Internal Ram may be a scant 256 MB but this can go up to 32GB with microSDHC support for external memory expansion.
Excellent value is the main edge of the Acer NeoTouch F1 that makes it a sure winner for the holiday season. You get pretty much all the features of high end phones like the HTC HD2 which looks like its main rival in the smartphone markets, but at a fraction of its price. The consumer couldn’t ask for anything better.
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The Neotouch does have beauty, but unfortunately, because it runs Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating software, it does not have brains. Very few people want Windows Mobile phones any more, because Microsoft's 'Mobile Marketplace' doesn't have many applications, and you need a stylus pen to operate all the features of the operating system. For these reasons, it is better to ask for an Android phone, which runs Google's Android software instead. Lots of applications. No clunky stylus-pen interface.