I've been waiting for a while for this phone and after all the reviews & research, went ahead and bought it from an ebay seller (brand new). It was a AAP_CSL (Asia/Pacific locale) phone (manufactured 12/2009), I went and downloaded Acer Tools and reflashed the ROM to a more up-to-date EMEA_CUS (Europe/Western/US) model. (still 1.6) The phone works well so far. Very good price (about $350 unlocked) for specs that are above most other phones in this range.
HTC was unknown before the G1 & myTouch. Every company has to start somewhere. And actually Acer had quite a bit of experience making hardware in laptops and netbooks, so they have the experience, Android provides the software. Actually I noticed the camera app on the stock ROM actually is pretty decdent, it allows autofocus or fixed to inifinity, ISO 100-800, contrast/brightness, a few filter effects, and the latest 1.6 ROM added VGA recording (originally only QVGA I think).
If the rumors that Acer is going to release an Android 2.1 ROM for the original Liquid A1 then that would be icing on the cake. It's very likely since the new Liquid E supposedly runs on the exact same hardware, just upgraded software.
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