Preview: Acer Tempo M900

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I would have been very curious about what kind of pictures does the handset’s 5 megapixel autofocus camera make, but unfortunately M900 didn’t help me out. I managed to launch the camera’s software, but the viewfinder had a completely white image, which tells a lot about quality. Anyway, I took a picture, my hand moved accidentally, while on the second try the software hung up. Somehow the camera gives up trying, the software hangs up after focusing, even a full restart won’t help. This leaves the pure facts: Acer took care of photo settings, there is a special “intelligent” focus (this is a multi-segment solution, we can tamper with light metering and sensitivity (ISO 100 – ISO 800), and we even have face recognition. Hopefully image quality will be okay on the final edition.

I didn’t get any headset with the phone, so I couldn’t check sound quality and the FM radio. I can’t say much about uptime either, as after the problems I’ve encountered, I didn’t use the handset for a long time. Otherwise the battery has a capacity of 1530 mAh, which will hopefully be able to keep the handset online for over two days, even in spite of the large display.

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Summary: M900 is a great example of why should we write a preview of a handset only if we have to say something about it (see Omnia, Innov8 and i8910 blogs). Acer’s new handset has tons of bugs, it’s not optimized, and with some exaggeration I could say that it’s unusable, even though it could make for a good handset. It has a full data transfer arsenal (HSDPA, HSUPA, WiFi, Bluetooth), it has lots of software, it has a good display, the keyboard is fine, and it even looks good. It has, however, such bugs that cannot be fixed even by a perfect software, these include the lack of a standard headset jack and the small memory capacity. We don’t know its expected price yet, but considering currently available Acer phone I’d say that it will be launched above 500 euros. I might even be competitive with a really great software, but if Acer won’t do something about it, the PDA branch could die soon. We’re waiting for the final version.

Bocha

Translated by Szaszati

The handset has been provided bySpeedShop, thanks!

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