Last at Mobile World Congress 2013 Acer has announced two pair of handsets & as per latest updates company is expanding its markets outside North America by launching products like liquid E2. The Liquid E2 smart phone is the successor of Liquid E1 which runs on quad-core processor & 4.5-inch qHD display.

Liquid C1 smartphone has already been announced in Thailand earlier this year which runs on  Intel’s Atom Z2420 chipset.

Key Specifications:

Network Supported: GSM (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900) & HSDPA

Display: 540 x 960 pixels, 4.5 inches, IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen.

Processor: CPU(Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7) & GPU(PowerVR SGX 544MP).

OS: Android OS, v4.2.1 (Jelly Bean).

Memory: Internal(4 GB, 1 GB RAM) & External (microSD, up to 32 GB).

Camera: Primary(8 MP, 3264 x 2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash) & Secondary (2 MP).

Connectivity: GPRS, EDGE, HSPA+, A-GPS, Bluetooth, USB.

Color: Black, White.

Battery Capacity: 2000 mAh.

Talk-Time: Up to 9 h.

Stand-by Time: Up to 450 h.

Expected Price: €229 or  $300.

Taiwan computer creator Acer Inc has accused its earlier chief executive, Gianfranco Lanci, proverb he offend a non-compete phrase in an agreement covering his leaving from the company in 2011. 

Lanci left Acer abruptly at the end of March last year after a disagreement with other board members over the strategy needed to counter the runaway success of the tablet market, which has cannibalized Acer’s profits.

He joined rival PC maker Lenovo Group Ltd as a consultant late last year to help develop its consumer business with a focus on Europe.

Acer said in a statement late on Tuesday that it filed the lawsuit in a court in Milan and was also seeking damages from Lanci, who is Italian and currently resides there.

It did not say how much it was seeking. The agreement covering Lanci’s departure had a 12-month non-compete clause, it said.

“We believe Mr. Lanci has clearly breached the terms of the non-compete agreement he entered into willingly,” the statement said. “This is about Acer defending a binding legal agreement with its former employee. We are taking legal action against him in order to protect Acer’s rights and interests.”

In a separate statement on Wednesday, Lenovo said it did not comment on pending litigation as a matter of policy, but added: “We are confident that our relationship with Mr. Lanci meets all legal requirements.”

Lanci said after his departure that he left because the board wanted more focus on operations in Taiwan when he believed the company had to look abroad. Acer’s chairman, JT Wang, responded at the time that Lanci had “hurt company’s business foundation.”

Acer one of the good name in the laptop technology is coming in the market with the thinnest and lightest laptop. It is the arrangement of  Ultrabook.

Acer has unveiled the world’s thinnest laptop computer as an array of “ultrabook” rivals prepared to debut this week at the Consumer Electronics Show here.

The Taiwan-based computer titan will begin shipping Acer Aspire 5 models in the second quarter of this year, with prices to be disclosed in coming weeks. “That S5 is quite significant,” analyst Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies said after the Acer press event yesterday.

“It looks like the thinnest and lightest, and it sets the bar for the rest of the ultrabook vendors,” he continued.

The Aspire S5 has a 34-cm (13.3-inch) screen and is 15 mm at its thickest point. The ultrabook weighs slightly less than 1.35 kg (three pounds). “We are committed to evolving this technology,” said Acer chief executive J T Wang. “By the second quarter of this year we will have four models of ultrabook and more to come.”

Ultrabooks powered by Windows 8 will be released by Acer after Microsoft releases the new version of its computer operating system later this year, according to Wang. He estimated that ultrabooks would make up at least 35 per cent of the Acer product line by the end of this year.

Acer also announced plans to launch a free service that will let users of its computers store video, photos, music, and documents in the Internet “cloud” and access files from any Windows 8 or Android software powered gadgets.

“We believe Microsoft will take care of Windows devices; Google will take care of Android devices, and Acer will take care of in between,” Wang said.”We will make Windows work very well with Android and other platforms too.”

Bajarin described Aspire S5 as the first viable Windows equivalent of popular MacBook Air laptops built by California-based Apple.

Acer Cloud appeared to be a Windows version of the Apple’s freshly-launched iCloud service that lets people access their content from iPads, iPhones, iPods, and Macintosh computers, according to the analyst.