July 02, 2010
New Acer Liquid E Smartphone
Rogers sent me a loyalty upgrade smartphone offer the other day, and after perusing reviews online I settled on the Acer Liquid E (note this is a link to a video with music), running Android 2.1 for only $19.99. That was for the razor. The blades are an extra $25/month for the basic data plan :-).
I used to have a razor, a Motorola Razor colour-screen flip-phone, but somehow it landed in the washing machine many months ago, so I regressed back to a Motorola 280 with a teeny monochrome screen. At one point I considered an iPhone, but it was too early in my contract cycle to get it at a decent cost. And while I have an iPod Touch, I was interested in checking out the Android platform.
It's still my first day with the new gadget, so I have a lot to learn, but so far it looks great! Now I can do email, Tweet, and Facebook on the go.
I used to say I'd never succumb to this, but I'm a prolific emailer, Tweeter, and Facebooker on my office computer, so what the hey, hey? Actually I wonder at how long it took me to get here, as I'm usually an early adopter. . .
The old, backup Motorola 280 next to the Acer Liquid E
It appears that the Acer Liquid E is a hot little item at the moment. I first cycled over to Metrotown, the largest mall in BC, but Wireless Wave didn't have it, and the Rogers store didn't have it either. Which irked me, because if you sent me the loyalty upgrade brochure, why don't you have the offered items in stock?
The trail finally led back to a "Rogers Plus" store just a 5-minute cycle from our place, but an outlet that it never even occurred to me to go to because I consider it to be just a video rental place.
Was I ever wrong about that! The Rogers video rental place on Royal Oak and Rumble not only had the Acer Liquid E, it also had a superb store manager by the name of Arjun Tyagi who calmly and deftly took me in hand, fulfilled my loyalty upgrade to perfection, and gave me a great demo of the Liquid E to boot. Thanks, Arjun!
Posted by Paul at July 2, 2010 09:13 PM