Acer F900 Touchscreen Smartphone

Acer has finally announced global availability of their top range F900 smartphone. We had to wait for quite a long time since the first day of MWC back in the middle of February 2009 when Acer has officially announced their future smartphone range including DX900, X960, M900 and, of course, the F900. At those times we were thinking of its software features (almost all hardware specifications were announced without delay), pricing and competitors. Now we can comment on mostly everything about it.

One of the things I like about F900 is its UI shell over Windows Mobile 6.1 – an Acer 2.0 User Interface lined up for widgets and apps. There are enough of those even from the start: YouTube, weather, Google Maps and Search, Jukebox, etc. Acer was aiming at maximum Internet experience ease so F900 sports JavaScript and Adobe Flash Lite via Internet Explorer Mobile 6. 3.75G HSDPA / HSUPA connectivity is also right there for better browsing.

Hardware specs are good enough, especially knowing that marking specialists were picking it just so to close the gap in the Acer Tempo Smartphone Series:

* Samsung S3C 6410, 533 MHz processor, 128 MB RAM
* GSM / WCDMA / EDGE / HSDPA / HSUPA / GPRS connectivity
* WLAN, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, miniUSB
* 3.2 MP camera with autofocus & flash
* 3.8 inch WVGA touch sensitive display
* Expandable 256 MB memory, microSD slot
* 6 hours talk time, 150 hours standby

Price tag is unexpectedly high by me – 700 USD. At this level F900 has to compete with Nokia N97, N96 and HTC Touch diamond2. It probably will not conquer their fans but entirely may attract attention of anyone who is after a feature phone with rich Internet capabilities. First impressions are that Acer F900 is well made, reliable and beautiful enough.