The Acer beTouch E100 is a new Windows Mobile 6.5 phone. It has a 2-megapixel camera, A-GPS and 3G 528MHz processor, except it lacks in Wi-Fi and an accelerometer. It comes in black and white color solutions it looks spectacular. The great thing is the cell phone comes with 3 other back panels (green, red and pink) allowing you to be able to change the looks within seconds.
Inside the box:
- Acer beTouch E100
- miniUSB cable
- 3 extra back panels
- User Guide
- Stereo headset
- Software CDs
- Charger
The Acer beTouch E100 has a 3.2-inch display. It has a resolution of 240×400 pixels, and supports 65k of colors and images. Regrettably, the screen is completely unusable within direct sunlight. Buttons around its navigational keypad are not raised enough, however they are pronounced. The fascinating thing is the keypad is touch-sensitive circular motions allows navigation through menus. It’s not to pleasant to operate, as said edges create annoying, uncomfortable feel.
The slider puts the phone into silence mode, the other buttons are not well raised, yet they quite simple to press. The Acer beTouch E100 has a miniUSB port.
Functionality and Interface
The beTouch E100 comes with perfunctory personalization of Windows Mobile 6.5 by Acer Home. You have the home screen which allows a quick access to some functions. It is a grid with 9 icons and you are able to change 6. The top three buttons are phone contacts, dialing and messaging. You will enjoy the simple interface; however you would instead use your regular home screen that’s WM 6.5, as it offers a richer functionality.
The Acer beTouch E100 has preinstalled applications that allow access to Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and Blogger. In general, the Acer beTouch E100 is rather a disappointing device in that respect.
Internet:
since it lacks Wi-Fi, you going to have to depend on 3G (HSDPA 7.2 Mbps) when connecting to Internet. It has high connectivity speed enough to permit the fast loading.
The Acer beTouch E100 comes with a standard software, i.e. Internet Explorer 6. In fact, it’s quite good in opening websites also offers a limited Flash support, however you will always need zooming out and in because of the low screen resolution which is 240×400 pixels.
GPS:
as mentioned , the Acer beTouch E100 is set with built-in A-GPS. It was able to pinpoint the location within 30-40 seconds. Google Maps are preinstalled on your smartphone – the application gives many options and is easy and very user-friendly interface, however it needs internet connection to download significant maps in good time.
Camera and multimedia
the Acer beTouch E100 sports a 2 mega pixel camera with a good design and camera speed. The snap shot in particular has nothing special actually, since they lack adequate details and the feature poorly represented colors. Same as the videos, here to the maximum video resolution is 320×240 pixels also the frames a second count is only around 10.
Totally unexpectedly, the Acer beTouch E100 perform reasonably well in multimedia this affordable handset uses Media Player, the normal application plays Xvid, DivX and H.264 coded videos and with the resolution of 800×480 pixels. The handset also manages to play its video clips on resolution of 1280×720 pixels, however some content stutters. Anyhow, we are amazed.
You will be able to listen to music using its Media Player also. The boxed headset of the beTouch E100 is fairly good. The downside is that you will have to purchase a converter miniUSB to 3.5mm jack if you need to plug in a must better pair .the earpiece sound with the built in loud speaker is passable.
Performance and Conclusion:
As a cell phone, the Acer beTouch E100 is average. The callers sounded very monotonous, there was crackling, and the overall sound was inadequate. The beTouch E100 is rather a disappointment within that respect.
What is beneath the hood is 528MHz Qualcomm, 256MB RAM, MSM7225 processor and 512MB ROM. The battery is passably robust provides about 5 hours of nonstop talk time 400 hours.
Pros
- excellent multimedia functionality
- bonus panels in a range of colors
- Snappy operation rate
- average in-call quality
- Low display, build quality
- No Wi-Fi
- Perfunctory personalization
Cons
- average in-call quality
- Low display, build quality
- No Wi-Fi
- Perfunctory personalization


