Acer Reveals Windows 10-Based Liquid Jade Primo Phone

Acer today unveiled a new smartphone for on-the-get professionals and a pocket-friendly tablet for tech-savvy families.

CES 2022 Bug Art Announced ahead of CES in Las Vegas, the mobile devices bring together the residual of Acer'southward hardware lineup, including new Windows and Chrome notebooks.

The Windows-based 5.five-inch Liquid Jade Primo handset—with its curved dorsum cover and Corning Gorilla Glass screen—runs Windows 10 universal apps that provide a PC-like experience when continued to an external brandish via Continuum. Leave the heavy laptop at habitation, and instead plug the Primo phone into a USB Blazon-C monitor, wireless display accessory, or Acer's Display Dock to turn it into a touchpad and virtual keyboard.

While connected, users tin can too projection presentations to a large screen while watching the "Presenter View" on the smartphone, and play videos on the hotel TV without missing friends' social media updates.

Featuring BitLocker technology for Windows ten Mobile, the Liquid Jade Primo promises full encryption for all data stored on its 32GB internal storage. Users can also tap into 3GB of RAM, a 21-megapixel rear photographic camera with dual LED flash and 4K video recording, and an 8-megapixel front shooter for wide-angle shots up to 84 degrees.

Acer'due south new smartphone—with a Total HD AMOLED brandish and Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor—will launch in February in Europe, the Eye East, and Africa for €569. It will gradually gyre out to other regions; pricing will be announced later.

The Acer Iconia 8 tablet (left), meanwhile, launches in North America side by side month. Starting at $99.99, the slate'southward Web browsing, video playback, and coincidental gaming is aimed at families, children, and other novice users.

Its 8-inch HD IPS brandish runs Android five.ane Lollipop, and features 9 hours of battery life, a MediaTek quad-core processor, 5-megapixel rear camera, two-megapixel front end photographic camera, 1GB RAM, 16GB internal storage, and up to 128GB additional space via a Micro SD carte.

Available with a white or blue back cover, the Iconia Ane 8 comes pre-loaded with Kids Center: an app featuring videos, games, books, and websites accounted appropriate for children, as well equally parental control. It too ships with Acer'southward EZ WakeUp and EZ Snap tools for powering the tablet and taking screenshots, plus System Doc to manage the device's retention, storage, and apps.

Those in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa can await for the new Iconia 1 viii tablet this calendar month, starting at €129.