When looking for an award-winning smartphone that also has a good price, who do you go to ? The people at Acer are the ones to think of. They have their “Acer Liquid” available and it delivers the goods. Get a closer look at what it can do here in this quick article.

With everyone seeming to focus on the android applications, but also on the Nexus One, it seems good to point out that you can very nearly get all the same things with an Acer Liquid. The screen is just two tenths of an inch smaller than the “google phone”. The weight is five grams more for the Acer Liquid. Can you tell the difference in five grams when holding two smartphones ? The Liquid has earned a “Smartphone Essentials Editor´s Choice Award” by a company from Europe that sells the Acer line of smartphones.

The screen on the Liquid is fully color saturated with 256,000 available colors. It has a bright screen that shows an impressive 480 by 800 pixels. This is a true WVGA standard screen. That beats many smartphones that are on the market now. It can do the automatic acrobatics with the included accelerometer. The screen also has a proximity sensor to turn the screen off when not in use.

The Acer Liquid has a quick processor that runs at an impressive 768 megahertz. The processor on the Nexus One is less than 300 megahertz faster, at 1000. The same company makes both processors. The smartphone runs super fast without those annoying waits for things to happen on the screen. The Liquid has 256 megabytes of RAM and 512 megabytes of ROM. This is the key to having a fast smartphone that powers through programs quickly. Those programs are applied by the Android operating system. This has got to the be the hottest topic on the internet at the moment. Google is offering this system for free to cell providers. It has 30,000 applications and counting. There is no doubt you can visit the “Google Market” and download one of the “apps” that will save you money or time. There are games available that have been ported to the Android system. “Nesoid” is one app that can put Nintendo games on the Liquid. The games are not included, it simply makes them available for download on your smartphone.

Quad band GSM and tri band HSDPA networks are the ones chosen for voice communication. The Liquid can connect with EDGE, WLAN ( Wi-Fi ), GPRS, 3G and bluetooth networks. The hard-wired data connection is a MicroUSB cable. Wi-Fi connects at a maximum “G” mode.

The camera is absolutely super on the Liquid. It takes photos with 2560 by 1920 pixels of resolution. The camera is rated at five megapixels. You get geotagging, autofocus and no flash. The video section is about average. The Liquid camera can take videos at twenty frames per second. By the way, that is exactly the same as the Nexus One. For music, there is a Java player that uses all the popular file types for songs, including the ever-popular MP3. There is a speaker and a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack when you want privacy.

Acer has done well and allowed us three choices for colors; black, white and red. The battery is just average in size and gives five hours of talk time. It is already released in Europe and is priced at £286.  Look for the next model of he Liquid, the Liquid “E” to be even better.