Key Features: MediaTek 1.2GHz quad-core CPU;
1GB RAM;
Android 4.2.1 OS;
4.5-inch IPS 960 x 540 pixel screen;
8-megapixel camera with LED flash
Manufacturer: Acer
Acer Liquid E2 - Design, Connectivity and Screen
What is the Acer Liquid E2?
Acer is a phone-maker
whose mobiles aren’t commonly seen on the shelves of the local mobile
shop. However, its phones tend to be a bit cheaper than the top names,
they barely fiddle with the Android OS at all these days and the Acer
Liquid E2 in particular has a solid mid-range feature list. It’s not
pretty and its price isn’t quite as aggressive as alternatives from ZTE
and Huawei, but the quad-core Acer Liquid E2 is a sound buy if you care
more about value than style
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Acer Liquid E2 – Design
This is a phone that does try to separate itself from the pack looks-wise, but its don't work particularly well.
Rather
than using an eye-catching finish or a metal body, the Acer Liquid E2’s
look is defined by the two speaker grilles on its rear. They're the
first thing you notice, as they are the most brazen we’ve ever seen on a
phone.
We get it, Acer, you’re trying to tell us the phone has above-average speakers. However, they do not look good
. 
The
one other bit of design trim is a spot of red up by where your ear sits
when taking calls. Thankfully, it’s much subtler than the grilles, but
still looks like a bit of a Franken-phone. It looks... incoherent.
From
a more practical perspective, the Acer Liquid E2’s dodgy design doesn’t
matter a great deal. The speakers don’t spoil the phone’s ergonomics,
and handling is perfectly fine. At 10mm thick it's no supermodel slim,
but the soft touch plastic battery cover feels nice and smooth on the
fingers. It’s not too heavy either, at 140g.
Average height,
average weight, ill-advised looks – the Acer Liquid E2 is no beauty. But
with a mid-size 4.5-inch screen, its power and volume rocker buttons
are small enough to reach comfortably one-handed and – front-on at least
– its looks are inoffensively drab. It also has a neat little green/red
notification light in the screen surround and light-up soft keys.
Under
its removable battery cover is a full-size SIM slot and the microSD
memory card slot. With only 4GB of internal memory, a memory card is a
must if you want to store music or videos. There’s also a dual-SIM
version of the E2, although we’re yet to see whether it’ll be widely
distributed in the UK.
Acer Liquid E2 – Connectivity
Aside
from these slots under the hood, and the headphone jack/microUSB on the
phone’s outside, all the Liquid E2’s connections are wireless. And, as
you might guess, there’s nothing too advanced going on.
The Acer
Liquid E2 does not have 4G or NFC, the two most important recent-ish
additions to the roster of mobile phone connections. It does have
everything else, though: Bluetooth, GPS, HSPA 3G and Wi-Fi.
Acer Liquid E2 – Screen
The
Acer Liquid E2 has a 4.5-inch screen, a step or two below the 5-inch
and near-5-inch top-end mobiles of the year, such as the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4.
Although
not hugely dissimilar in size, there is quite a gap in screen quality.
The Acer Liquid E2 uses an IPS panel, the type of screen used in most
higher-end tablets and phones.
Its viewing angles are great –
the main design goal behind this type of screen – and image quality is
decent. However, there are compromises.
The
screen doesn’t have the advanced anti-reflective coating seen in
pricier phones, and as such the base ‘black’ of the screen is grey-ish
in normal indoors lighting, spoiling the contrast of images. Resolution
is fairly low, too.
The Acer Liquid E2’s display is 960 x 540
pixels, resulting in pixel density of 245ppi. That’s a respectable
low-to-mid range figure, and it doesn’t leave normal-sized text looking
blocky, but it lacks the pristine zingy clarity you’d get with a 720p or
1080p display.
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