Mobile phones continue to evolve along the lines of personal items, continuing the transition from business necessity for making and receiving calls from one’s fellow executives (or, goodness forbid, the boss) to everyday items as extensions of one’s personality and style. Technology continues to improve in leaps and bounds, allowing manufacturers to integrate feature after feature into the mobile phones they crank out on a regular basis. Users eagerly snap this up, of course, maximizing each new feature and finding the best ways to use them to add to their mobile experience so as to truly make each of the new models worth their while.
Part of the pack of manufacturers racing to take the lead in the smartphone race is Acer, a Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer that has become notable over the last decade or so for its desktop and laptop computer production. Acer’s product lineup typically includes computer peripherals and display items, personal digital assistants (PDAs), as well as individual and server-scale data storage equipment. Acer has spent its last few years or so well, becoming the largest laptop computer manufacturer and the second largest manufacturer in general, following closely behind Hewlett-Packard.
Acer has entered the smartphone game with a handful of innovative new units such as the Liquid. They recently introduced the X960, a new model that seeks to provide a solid and streamlined smartphone experience. The X960 is a streamlined, sleek model with a simple exterior and a powerful interior.
With dimensions clocking in at 59×106.4×13.7 mm and a weight of 132.5 g, this light pocket phone manages to pack in quite a bit of punch for its compact frame. The X960 runs on the Windows Mobile 6.1 OS, which has ups and downs of its own but proves more than serviceable for a smartphone running on a powerful Samsung S3C 6400 processor with 533 MHz clock speed – as seen in action in Acer’s DX900 – and 256mb ROM and 128mb RAM.
While the X960’s initial memory offering is somewhat small, it is expandable via microSD card storage. This storage will be necessary almost immediately, however, as installing the four applications on offer with the phone – backup utility, a QWERTY keyboard alternative, a streaming media player and a USB management program – will leave only 80mb of free memory. The main consolation is that these programs are very easy to use and functional, and worth the consumed space.
On the whole, the X960 is a versatile device with plenty of features packed into it. Quad-band GSM with High-Speed Download Packet Access capability and Wi-Fi at 802.11b/g as well as Bluetooth 2.0 and GPS via SiRFstar III are all standard features that users will be grateful for, and the built-in software (Outlook Mobile, Internet Explorer 6, Office Mobile, Windows Media Player, Windows Live Messenger and others) and peripherals such as the fairly serviceable 3.2 megapixel camera with LED flash allow added functionality. While a lot of these features still fall a little short of the bar other manufacturers — and even Acer themselves – have set, none of the shortcomings are ultimately dealbreakers, and the X960 remains a good phone for the average smartphone user.
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