Acer and Intel Co-Develop Liquid C1 Smartphone

Each new smartphone launched that runs an Intel processor is celebrated by the silicon giant. After partnering with lesser known phone makers such as India's LAVA and Kenya's Safaricom, Intel partnered with a company it's maintained a working relationship with for decades, supplying processors for its notebooks and desktops, but one that's relatively a novice in the smartphone space, Acer. The two co-developed the Liquid C1 upper-mainstream smartphone.

Available in black (pictured above) and white with a chrome highlight running its perimeter, the Liquid C1 dons a more sleek and curvy appearance than the stiff, boxy one of the XOLO X900. It features a 4.3-inch IPS LCD touchscreen with a qHD (540 x 960 pixels) resolution, an 8-megapixel primary camera, a 0.3-megapixel front-facing one; and vital stats of 127.3 x 65.5 x 9.95 mm, weighing 140 g.

Under its hood is where the "Intel Inside" happens; the Liquid C1 runs an Intel Atom Z2420 "Lexington" processor clocked at 1.20 GHz. This SoC packs a single x86-64 core that's HyperThreaded to two logical CPUs, 512 KB LLC, a 64-bit wide DDR3 memory interface, and PowerVR SGX 540 graphics core clocked at 400 MHz. The SoC is wired to an Intel XMM 6265 soft-modem (HSPA+), an unknown (we're guessing 1 GB) of RAM, and 4 GB internal storage that's expandable to 32 GB with micro-SDHC. Other hardware features include 802.11 b/g/n WLAN, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR, GPS, micro-USB 2.0, and a 2,000 mAh battery. Strangely enough, the phone runs the older Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" operating system (although the screenshots look quite like Android 4.2).

Like most other Intel Inside smartphones, this one isn't getting a worldwide launch, either (what a waste!). It's being launched first in Thailand, with no word on global availability.

Source: Nextpowerup.com