MWC: Android smartphones and Windows Phone Acer – CNET France

                   
                             

As every year, the Mobile World Congress is the perfect opportunity for manufacturers to unveil their new products. Acer Taiwan is no exception to the rule with a new range of Android smartphones and (that’s a first) on Windows Phone.

The latest additions to the range are the Z Z220 and Z520 two entry-level smartphones displayed to particularly aggressive respective price 89 € and 119 €.

From entry level Android …

With Liquid Z520, Acer puts forward mainly capabilities for photo and particularly for selfies his smartphone. We find an 8 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash. Moreover, there are some pretty interesting features like to achieve with the help of a voice command selfies without touching it. From a more technical point of view it has a 5-inch LCD screen with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels, a quad core processor clocked at 1.3 Mediatek GHz supported by 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage.

… and Windows Phone

Acer also took the opportunity to unveil its first smartphone on Windows Phone. Here there is no talk of Windows 10 but simply an entry-level smartphone cheap. The M220 is for the Windows 8.1 Z220 Android. The technical specifications are comparable. With a 4-inch display, a 5 megapixel camera on the back and 2-megapixel front. Importantly, this model should logically go under Windows 10 when available.