ACER LIQUID JADE S REVIEW

Acer launched its midrange android smartphone namely Liquid Jade S (dual sim) in India which is priced @ 16,499/- sold via Snapdeal. It is available is Black, White & Red shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY

The design of this phone is pretty nice. It has corning gorilla glass 3 on front and a matte plastic back and feels good in hands. It is slim at 7.8mm and weighs 116gms. It has 5 inch HD IPS LCD display of resolution 720 x 1280 with 294ppi. The viewing angles are good and sunlight legibility of the display is pretty good. It runs on Lenovo's custom User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is pretty good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES

It has 16GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 32GB (using sim 2 slot). The device features dedicated multimedia apps like music for songs, a gallery to store all images and videos and a video player for playing movies respectively which are very good. FM radio comes pre-installed. Connectivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 21.1mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, 4G speeds upto 150mbps download & upto 50mbps upload Wifi b/g/n/, Wifi direct, Wifi hotsopt, USB OTG as well as Bluetooth 4.0 LE (Low Energy).

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES

It has a 13MP rear camera with autofocus and Led flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is very good overall. Daytime the images are great and has good amount of details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become bit visible visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is just good and could have been better. It does FULL HD1080p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 17-18mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is very good overall. Daytime the video clarity is great and has good amount of details respectively but at night video clarity is just good could have been bit better. It also has a 5MP front camera for selfe's with 720p video recording and clarity is very good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS

It runs Android (OS) 4.4.4 Kitkat out of the box. It has a Mediatek (MTK6572M) SOC (System On Chip) running an Octa-core processor at 1.2GHZ (Cortex-A53) with 2GB RAM and Mali-T760MP2 (dual core) GPU. The performance is Excellent which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run very well and there is no major lag at all. 

QUADRANT : 9850.

ANTUTU : 27450.

NENAMARK 2: 59.5fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE

It has a Non-Removable Li-Ion 2300 mah battery. The battery life is quite good which is given below.

BROWSING : upto 7H.

VIDEO WATCHING: upto 7:30H.

TALKTIME : upto 15H(2G) / upto 13H(3G).

STANDBY TIME: upto 480H(2G) / upto 460H(3G).

PROS

*Good build quality.
*Very slim & light (except camera protrusion). 
*Very good Display.

*Excellent Performance.
*4G & USB OTG support.
*Great camera and video recording.

*Very good loudspeaker.
*Quite good battery life. 

CONS
*Non-Removable Battery.
*No NFC & dual band Wifi support.
*Sold only via online by Snapdeal. 

*No dedicated camera key. 

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.9/10.

°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.