Posts Tagged ‘Liquid’

Across the pond in Europe the much ballyhooed Acer Liquid smartphone has begun shipping. What’s notable about this handset is not the assisted-GPS or the fact that it has an Android OS (no, it’s not 2.0, but rather version 1.6, the so-called Donut), but the fact that it is one of the first smartphones built around Qualcomm’s Snapdragon mobile processor. Snapdragon is one of the latest processors for mobile applications that house multiple cores in one chip, including a CPU, GPS, and the cellular modem (no mean feat, if you no anything about electrical engineering, multiple radios, and the ensuing headaches).

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