Acer Liquid Jade 2 and Liquid Zest
Acer also made their mark at the Mobile
World Congress this year with three smartphones - the Liquid Jade 2, the Liquid
Zest and the Liquid Zest 4G.
Acer Liquid Jade 2
The Acer Liquid Jade 2 sports a
5.5" 1080p AMOLED screen, which the company says supports 100% of the NTSC
color gamut. The phone also features a beefy 21 MP camera with fast autofocus
and 4K video recording support at 30fps. The front-facing camera is 8 MP and has
84-degree wide-angle lens.
Under the hood of the Liquid Jade 2
ticks a Snapdragon 808 chipset with hexacore CPU and 3 GB of RAM. The internal
storage is 32 GB and is expandable via the microSD card slot.
The phone also supports the DTS
Headphone:X sound enhancement and support for uncompressed audio. There is also
support for DTS Play-Fi technology, which allows the phone to stream audio from
any app or file to Play-Fi enabled speakers (including multi-room setups) by
various manufacturers.
Pricing isn't available yet.
Acer Liquid Zest and Liquid Zest 4G
The Liquid Zest has two distinct
sub-models. Both come with a 5" 720p IPS display. The regular Liquid Zest
only has 3G support, while the Liquid Zest 4G, as you can guess, comes with LTE
support.
The two devices have different chipsets
- the 3G model has a Mediatek MT6580 chipset with a quad-core 1.3 GHz CPU while
the Zest 4G packs a MediaTek MT6735 with a quad-core 1.3 GHz processor.
The two also differ in the supported DTS
sound enhancements. The 3G Zest offers DTS Sound Studio whereas the Zest 4G
packs the upgraded DTS-HD Premium Sound. However, both phones lack support for
DTS Play-Fi audio streaming technology.
The rest of the specs are the same and
include an 8 MP f/2.0 main camera with autofocus and a 5 MP selfie unit. The Acer
Liquid Zest will start at € 109 and go up to € 149 for the Zest 4G.
