Crikey, they still make resistive touchscreens? According to Acer, its new beTouch E400 Android phone packs a decent 3.2″ screen, although it’s using the horrendously old-fashioned resistive technology, rather than the superior and NEAR-MAGICAL capacitive tech most modern touch phones use today.
But still, it looks like a pleasingly straightforward phone, and could find itself a sizeable niche if Acer can offer an Android 2.1 smartphone to market at an affordable price – and it ought to work swiftly enough, thanks to its 600MHz Qualcomm processor. Here it/she is:
And in a further throwback to the technologies of old, the beTouch E400 features swappable back covers – so you’ll be able to customise colours when the thing arrives in, according to Acer, April of this year.
HTC’s 4.3″ dual-core Android model, powered by Qualcomm’s all-new S4 processor. It’s smaller than the enormous One X, but is it as nice as its bigger brother? (SPOILER: Yes it is).
HTC is very much B-A-C-K at the top of the Android world with this, its quad-core flagship for 2012. Great camera, huge 4.7″ display and Android 4.0 running beautifully well.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
johnV
/ October 5, 2010I don’t think resistive touch screen devices are going away. It’s only the reaction time that makes them slightly inferior to capacitive screens. As a matter of fact, my wife recently came up with a list of 10 phones using resistive technology . Although there’s no iPhone in there, you’ll be surprised with the phones that made it to that list.
Anonymous
/ January 27, 2011Acer beTouch E400 now can update to adroid V2.2?