Acer Iconia Smart, Hybrid of Smartphone and Tablets

Acer enliven the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2011 in Bacelona by presenting Acer Iconia Smart. Acer's first handset in the form of half tablet half phone with extra wide screen and is intended for portable multimedia players. Iconia names similar to the Acer laptop products that use 2 screens, Acer Iconia.

Acer Iconia Smart has a 21:9 widescreen display measuring 4.8 inches diagonally and a resolution of 1024x480 pixels. It also provided the sound system speakers with Dolby surround sound technology for impressive sound experience.

Iconia Smart use Android Gingerbread with Acer UI interface version 4.0 (Breeze). Snapdragon 1GHz processor and a browser that supports flash 10.1. In addition, there 8MP camera on the back with an LED flash and video recorder capabilities 720p. While in the front there 1.3MP camera for video calls. There is also a gyroscope and accelerometer in this handset to play games that are controlled by motion.

Acer Iconia Smart specifications:
General
2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100
HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100

Size
Dimensions 141.7 x 64.5 x 13.6 mm
Weight 185 g

Display
Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 480 x 1024 pixels, 4.8 inches
- Acer UI 4.2
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Touch-sensitive controls
- Six-axis gyro sensor
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Multi-touch input method

Sound
Alert types Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
- Dolby Mobile sound enhancement

Memory
Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Practically unlimited
Internal 8 GB storage, 512 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
Card slot microSD, up to 32GB

Data
GPRS, EDGE
3G HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, UPnP, DLNA
Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP, EDR
microUSB v2.0

Camera
Primary 8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Features Geo-tagging, face and smile detection, image stabilization
Video 720p@30fps
Secondary 2 MP

Features
Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread)
CPU 1GHz Scorpion processor, Qualcomm MSM8255-1 Snapdragon
Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email
Browser HTML
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS
GPS, with A-GPS support
Java Via third party application
- SNS integration
- HDMI port
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail
- YouTube, Google Talk, Picasa integration
- MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ player
- XviD/MP4/H.264/H.263 player
- Organizer
- Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
- Adobe Flash Player 10.1
- Voice memo/dial/commands
- Predictive text input

Battery
Standard battery, Li-Po 1500 mAh
Stand-by Up to 450 h (2G) / Up to 500 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 11 h (2G) / Up to 8 h (3G)