Exterior
I have always liked E-TEN handsets. They were quite square-shaped, they have sometimes used very vivid colors, but they had something… something that didn’t mean much to Acer, but I have to say, when looking at X960, that I don’t miss these things. The new handset looks really cool, its design, shape, colors and the materials used are really elegant. Its size is average, it won’t compete with the smallest of handsets, but the 106.4 x 59 x 13.7 mm and the weight of 131 grams won’t make it a weapon of mass destruction. The front panel is made of a shiny black material, on the sides there is a chromed stripe. The back is the soft plastic usual for these kinds of devices, as it provides a firm grip. Unfortunately the one I had for testing came without a stylus, so I can’t say anything about that. Considering its holder I think it’s a thick, telescopic one.
On top of the front panel we can see the light sensor, the secondary camera and the speaker, while below them there is the TFT touchscreen with a diagonal of 2.8” and a resolution of 480 x 640 pixels; fortunately we can’t complain either about its image quality or its readability. On the bottom there is a small group of buttons, on the two sides there are the call handling keys, while in the middle there’s the circle d-pad and two hotkeys, the key layout being quite fine-looking.
The designers did a good job with the back panel as well. The part around the camera is raised a bit, but fortunately the handset won’t lie on the lens cover when put upside down on a table. The autofocus camera has a resolution of 3.2 megapixels and there is a whole team around it, as we can see four circles: one of these is the flash, the other is a mirror for self-portraits and the last two are two speakers. Of course they are not stereo (they would be too close to each other anyway), it’s just a matter of design that there are two of them.
On the top there is a single E-TEN legacy, a GPS label, engraved with a typical font. On the left there is a hook for the wristband, the volume control keys, the reset gap and a hotkey; on the opposite side we can find the power buttons, the microSD slot and the camera’s shoot key. On the bottom there is only a miniUSB connector, so it seems that the standard headphone jack is not one of Acer’s favorites – we can only hope that there will be one on their other devices.
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