Acer CloudMobile coming to the UK in early September

The Acer CloudMobile Android smartphone, which was announced back in February, will finally be available in early September. That’s at least in the UK with Expansys already accepting preorders, asking 289.99 GBP (about $454) for the unlocked device. Specs wise, we’re talking about the best smartphone Acer has ever made. It comes with a 4.3-inch HD screen, 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, HSPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, DLNA, GPS, Dolby Sound technology and a microSD expansion slot. If all this sounds cool to you, hit this link to preorder your CloudMobile device. Hopefully the rest of Europe will follow shortly…

Acer CloudMobile: 4.3 inch 720p Android 4.1 smartphone that won a design award

Ask someone, anyone, about which companies are synonymous with the word design, and you’d be hard pressed to hear a single person mention Acer. Things can change though, and the Acer CloudMobile might be the start of a new era for the company. It won the 2012 iF design award, which isn’t really saying much, but we’ll give Acer the benefit of the doubt. Their new smartphone will ship in Q3 of this year running Android 4.1, it’ll have a 4.3 inch 720p resolution screen, and from the pair of photos we have of the device it looks like it isn’t going to feature any hardware buttons on the front. There’s not too many details about what’s under the hood, we’ll likely hear that at Mobile World Congress later this month, but don’t be surprised to find out that it’s running a typical dual core Qualcomm Snapdragon chip with 1 GB of RAM on board.

The bigger question is what’s Acer going to do to Android? That design award that their phone won was was due to the fact that it looks pretty. There’s only so much being pretty will take you in smartphone land however. If people can’t use your device, then forget about it, no one is going to buy it. We’re hoping Acer will ship the CloudMobile with stock Android, but we know that’s not going to be the case. All we can do is click our red shoes together with our eyes closed and wait and see what happens.