Recently, the existence of smartphones with huge screen is trending worldwide. One of them will be the Acer Iconia Smart S300. For the information, the Iconia brand is actually the range of tablets from the company which has previously gained popularity in the market. Therefore, let’s take a look at the below technical specifications overview of Acer Iconia Smart S300 for your personal noticing or perhaps as your own buying guide.
Design, Display and Dimension
At the first glance, Acer Iconia Smart S300 looks like some other smartphone out there. The device measures 141.7 mm in height, 64.5 mm in width, 13.6 mm in thickness and weighs about 185 grams. With this dimension and weight, surely this device is not the slimmest and sleekest handset in the market. As a matter of fact, the device looks taller as compared to other equivalent smartphones. Its 4.8†display has the maximum resolution of 1024x480 pixels, 16 million colors and 246 ppi of pixel density. These screen specs can be considered as sufficient enough to deliver the good image viewing, video watching and decent outside visibility.
General Performance
To back up the overall performance, the device has been equipped with the single-core 1 GHz Snapdragon processor along with the 512 MB of RAM and Adreno 205 GPU. As one of the benefit, the device has been pre-loaded with the improved version of Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) but however it seems to be not upgradable to the latest Android OS 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). The company has also added the customized UI 4.2 which contains several enhancements. For storing data files, there will be the 8 GB internal storage which supports for the memory expansion by using the microSD card up to 32 GB.
Camera and Multimedia
The 8 megapixels camera contained in this phone will provide the maximum image resolution of 1280x720 which is good enough to record the HD video (720p @fps). The camera has been also added with the single-LED flash, auto-focus and digital zoom. The phone is also capable of playing several popular media files including MP3, WAV, WMA, XviD, MP4, H.264 and H.263 file formats which is also backed up by the Dolby Digital dedicated 5.1 audio system. As the alternative music player, there’s the Stereo Radio FM to stay tune in your own favorite local radio station.
Connectivity
The phone supports for accessing the 2G network through the quad-band GSM and EDGE networks and also the 3G network with the data speed of up to 14.4 Mbps (HSDPA) and up to 5.76 Mbps (HSUPA). For data sync or local connection there are Bluetooth 2.1 and micro USB port available and for the wireless networking the phone allows for the Wi-Fi connection.
Price, Pros and Cons
The retail price of Acer Iconia Smart S300 is around $499. The advantages of this phone are the good wide screen display especially for watching HD videos and also the decent camera specs. However, the hardware specs are not too impressive and in fact anyone can afford the smartphone with higher specs (dual-core processor and bigger RAM) with this price level for example Sony Xperia P ($300-500). [IS]
