Acer is preparing a follow-up model to its just-released Acer Liquid S1 with, you guessed it, the Acer Liquid S2, a 5.9-inch phablet running a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core chip and with many more surprises to boot.
The device emerged via what is allegedly an official Acer roadmap, leaked by German website Computerbase.de. We can't vouch for its authenticity and there's no way of knowing if it's the real deal, but do take it all with a good dollop of salt.
While the spec sheet doesn’t explicitly name the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chip there’s little else it could be as a quad-core processor clocked at 2.3GHz with 2GB of RAM. At a push it could be Nvidia Tegra 4 based.
The display is a full HD IPS LCD and there’ll be 16GB of storage onboard, along with NFC. Visually it’s looking a lot like a Samsung Galaxy handset if the little picture is true to life.
The price tag is pegged as 25990 Russian Rubles, which translates to about $780 or £508 while the launch date is cited as ‘Q3’ of 2013.
Most interestingly, and indeed most confusingly, the operating system is listed as ‘K OS’ which could be referring to Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie, the next build from Google expected to break cover in October. The only problem with that, of course, is that October isn’t in Q3, meaning it’ll either launch on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean and update later or there are some big inaccuracies here.
At any rate it’ll be interesting to see how Acer pitches the Liquid S2 to consumers. The company is quite well regarded for its laptop PCs and some of its Iconia tablets on both Android and Windows do reasonably well sales-wise, but despite having a number of phone launches under its belt it is yet to really make any substantial gains in the smartphone space.
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