Acer M900 Windows Phone preview
April 23, 2009 by Mark Briggeman
Filed under Phones, Windows Phones
In this short preview we will show you the new Acer M900 Windows Phone. The long awaited successor of the Eten Glofiish M810 will soon be available to all you gadgeteers out there. The M700 was the first QWERTY slider Phone Edition from Eten. After that it has been followed by the M800 and the last high-end model M810. Since Acer has aquired Eten, it has developed a second full QWERTY keyboard slider Windows Mobile device. As you can see, even the keyboard perfectly matches the layout of MobilityMinded.com! The specs are also quite impressive:
It runs on Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional (Crossbow), has a Samsung S3C 6410 533 MHz Processor onboard and the memory is 128 MB SDRAM for user applications & storage and 256 MB FLASH ROM for the Operating System and embedded applications.
The display is a 3.8″ WVGA TFT LCD touch screen with 800 x 480 pixel resolution and 256k colors, which is quite a big screen as I might say ! The dimensions of the M900 are 119 (L) x 62 (W) x 17.1 (H) mm and it weighs 188 grams.
When you are on the road, you’ll have plenty of wireless options to be connected at all times:
HSDPA Category 8/ HSUPA Category 5 ( 2100/1900/850 Mhz)
GSM/EDGE: Quad-band, 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
GPRS/EGPRS: Class B, multi-slot class 11
WLAN: 802.11b/g Wi-Fi CERTIFIED® network connection
Bluetooth: Bluetooth® 2.0+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
It also sports a GPS with Embedded SiRF Star III chipset, so you won’t get lost !
The camera is a 5M pixels VGA Auto-Focus with flashlight CMOS camera,
up to 2560 x 1920 resolution and with Digital zoom (1x, 2x, 4x)
On the front we’ll find a VGA CMOS Camera for video calling, which has a 640×480 resolution.
The M900 also has a Finger-Print Recognition mechanism for security and navigation and a Light Sensor for sensing the brightness of environment to adjust panel luminance. A Gravity Sensor is also present for Auto-Sensing of device position for displaying in potrait or landscape mode
You might read on other websites that it has a TV-Out also, but the M900 has NO TV-Out. It’s power comes from a Lithium Polymer rechargeable battery with 1,530 mAh capacity.
Below you will find some screenshots which shows the new Acer Shell and some more improvements.
The new Acer Shell now consists of two pages where you have easy access to your tasks.
In Settings you can easilly manage your Communications Manager, Sound profiles, Backlight, your Today Softkeys and if you want to, you can even unload the Acer Shell to get the Windows Mobile Classic look.
The Communication Manager has clear buttons, where you can turn all your connections on or off.
This new M900 also features the new Internet Explorer 6 Mobile. This new version has been improved a lot and you will enjoy a better expierence when surfing on the net !
The ROM on this previewed M900 has not been finalized, but when this device is released to the general public, we will publish an in-depth review of this brand-new device.
If you have any questions about this new device, don’t hesitate to ask them.
Awarded MVP Windows Mobile for his community activities, passion for everything Windows Mobile and Windows Phone and enthusiastic mountainbiker.
Looks fine. 1. What would be the price ? 2. Would SE xperia a better phone ?
Must say, top preview and beside that i’m absolutely (not) jealous about
the fact that you manage to get your “skinny” fingers behind all this nice
toys. Keep up the good work little brother….
The menu and comm. manager look kind of ugly to me, HTC does a better job on the look of the software…at least to me. Specs of the hardware are really nice though.
Acer is a big company especially for the notebook market, but for the phone, I think Acer should try something hard to stand beside other phones such as HTC and Nokia. By the way, Acer phones are good.