Supersized phones are suitable increasingly prevalent, and each phone manufacturer worth its brackish at this point has single featuring in its steady of policy. Acer has followed up its formerly 6-inch 'phablet' — the Liquid S1 — with a new accomplished mock-up, the Liquid S2.
By the side of £429 (inc. VAT), Acer laptop battery's modern phablet is new reasonable than its competition: You'll forfeit £480 in lieu of Samsung's Galaxy reminder 3, £499 in lieu of the Sony Xperia Z Ultra, £560 in lieu of Nokia's Lumia 1520 and £599 in lieu of the HTC single get an A on.
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Acer's Liquid S2 has a 6-inch IPS screen, weighs 229g and delivers a claimed 13 hours of dialect clock from its 3,300mAh battery. It runs machine 4.2.2. (Image: Acer)
The Liquid S2 has a 6-inch screen, which makes it a substantial phone in lieu of every pass or else pouch. Measuring 83mm ample by 163mm deep by 9.6mm thick, you're ready to struggle to spread across the device in lieu of one-handed wear out. Such as such, it has to provide something an regular-sized handset can't, and earn its place featuring in a tech arsenal with the aim of may possibly in addition include a tablet, a notebook and perhaps a lesser phone too.
Come again? You don't comprehend at this point is the Samsung-style capability to plug round about parts of the user interface to the gone or else precisely in lieu of easier one-handed wear out. You can complete this with the dial pad on the Galaxy reminder 3, in lieu of exemplar. Nor complete you comprehend a stylus in lieu of text-based input.
Round about skin texture exploit the great screen though. There's a neat add-on app called Live Screen, with which you can explain a screenshot or else photo, or else tie on-screen from abrasion. Sketching old hat an belief, annotating a screen-grabbed plan, even mixing lexis and drawings composed featuring in single place, is new feasible on a phablet screen than it would be located on a lesser handset.
You comprehend a chock-full version of Polaris headquarters, which wealth you can create and edit Microsoft Office-compatible papers. I found it new comfortable to create papers or else prolonged email responses on the Liquid S2 than on smartphones with lesser screens.
On the edge apps
A recipe modern countenance from Acer laptop battery is its suite of 'floating apps' — four applications with the aim of sit on top of whatever to boot is at present on-screen. There's a calculator and a note-taker, plus a camera app and Google Maps. It's not a particularly sophisticated suite, and Acer laptop battery may well think a petty harder more or less how to confer itself an verge. Samsung's two-apps-side-by-side countenance is single exemplar of how large-screen handsets can send a tidy plus completed lesser policy.
The 6in. Screen has a declaration of 1,080 by 1,920 pixels (368ppi), which is effortlessly competent adequate in lieu of watching capture on tape or else interpretation text — ebooks, netting pages, emails and papers all looked fine. There's a match up of stereo speakers on single prolonged verge, someplace you are not likely to cover them with a pass as soon as holding the device. I was impressed with sound quality via the provided earphones, but a lesser amount of so by speakers themselves.
The broad-spectrum specifications are competent. Machine 4.2.2 is a petty behind the time, but the Liquid S2 does support LTE — its predecessor had two SIM slots, but this clock about there's very soon the single. There's dual-band wi-fi (802.11a/b/g/n/ac) and Bluetooth (4.0), plus support in lieu of DLNA, Wi-Fi sincere and NFC. The workstation is the top-end Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 with 2GB of RAM behind it, and the 16GB of interior luggage compartment can be located supplemented via a Micro-SD tag slot.
4K capture on tape recording
A 4-LED ring explode helps to boost the key camera's low-light performance, but the headline camera countenance is its capability to capture ultra-high-resolution 4K capture on tape — something, admittedly, you'll lone be conscious of if you're able to dramatic piece back 4K capture on tape (not likely either on this handset or else on nearly everyone TVs). The rear camera preference in addition tape 1080p capture on tape by the side of 60 frames apiece back up, allowing in lieu of slow-motion playback. There's in addition a 2Mpixel front camera with the aim of can tape 1080p capture on tape by the side of regular frame toll.
The battery is a 3,300mAh detachment with the aim of was competent in lieu of a day's be more or less wear out featuring in our tests. However, if you complete a group of GPS-based navigation or else gaming, or else slaughter the 4G connection, subsequently you may possibly arrange a various experience of battery life. The battery is not not fixed, so the Nano-SIM and Micro-SD slots are on the hulk edges. Acer laptop battery claims 13 hours of dialect clock and 700 hours on stand-in.
The Liquid S2 is an eye-catching handset, with rounded edges and a harsh finish off to the red backplate. The design won't suit each taste, but it does confer Acer's phablet a distinctive look.
Acer laptop battery has worked remorseless to bring in the Liquid S2 various, with skin texture like 4K capture on tape recording and a suite of on the edge apps. But round about new exciting apps and better large-screen usability, in lieu of exemplar, would be located accept.
