Acer announces the 4.3-inch Liquid C1 which will sport an Intel Atom Z2420 chipset.
Acer and Intel announced a new Android handset in Thailand yesterday named the Liquid C1, which will house the low power Intel Atom Z2420 chipset. This is the first phone to sport the latest chipset codenamed Lexington which was announced at this year’s CES. The Atom Z2420 sports a single-core processor with support for Hyper-Threading, thereby giving two logical cores, running at 1.2GHz.
The Acer Liquid C1 is a 4.3-inch smartphone having an IPS LCD screen with qHD resolution of 960×540 pixels, equalling a pixel density of 256 ppi. It sports an 8MP rear camera and a VGA front-facing camera and comes with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. The Atom Z2420 chipset allows hardware-accelerated 1080p HD encoding as well as decoding, and lets the Liquid C1 shoot a maximum of 5 frames per second in burst mode.
The Liquid C1 is expected to launch in Thailand first followed by launches in other South Asian countries this month. It is priced at 9,990 Thai Baht which equals approximately Rs. 17,800. At this price point, it will be quite a task to sell the C1 in India taking its specifications into consideration. But we shall wait for the Indian launch and pricing.
Earlier reports indicate that Lava will soon be launching a budget smartphone with the same Intel Atom Z2420 chipset, called the Xolo X500. A much more low-end device, it is expected to be priced at Rs. 8,999, and feature 512MB of RAM, 4GB built-in storage, and a 3.5-inch (480×320 pixel) display alongside.
Source: GSMArena