Acer neoTouch S200 & Acer beTouch E100, E101 & E200 [neoTouch & beTouch WinMo 6.5 Smartphones Get Official, Already Available in UK]

Acer have formally announced their new, Windows Mobile 6.5 powered neoTouch S200 and Acer beTouch E100, E101, E200 touchscreen phones which are billed as being ‘designed to be cutting-edge devices for everyone, not only a limited elite class of users’ and which cater specifically for demanding users and those looking for the style conscious smartphones respectively.

In honestly, Acers official announcement is pretty limited in terms of detail concerning the new neoTouch and beTouch touchscreens (and this is quite possibly the understatement of the week), as you’ll see from the press release featured in full below, however, we can at least offer a little more detail than Acer have decided furnish, which follows Acer’s release:

One Size Does Not Fit All

Technologies designed to meet a wide variety of communications needs

Smartphone users are not all the same; they have extremely different characteristics and priorities.

The choice of one product rather than another is broadly determined by how much that particular device meets the user’s needs: some users seek a sophisticated and powerful product purely for business use, some choose a product to keep in touch with their world, and there are those who prefer a stylish or glamorous look.

Following extensive market research on user expectations and the relationship between accessibility and content, Acer now presents two new product lines – beTouch and neoTouch – designed to cater for diversified targets and types of use.

The new product lines have a single common denominator: touch.

The two lines are designed to be cutting-edge devices for everyone, not only a limited elite class of users. From now on, anyone can access applications and services online with a simple touch of the finger.

beTouch

The beTouch line brings energy, colour, and warmth to the smartphone world and is destined to light up the lives of active and dynamic individuals who want to change their method of communicating. For this reason, the line is graphically represented by the colour orange, chosen as it is as vibrant and joyous as the beTouch itself.

Style-conscious people who constantly seek out fashion and the latest innovations choose their smartphone so that it reflects their own personality; people who focus directly on design and ease of use, but also insist on a mobile access to Internet to keep in touch with friends. People who won’t settle for anything less than a trendy and colourful device like the Acer beTouch E100/101.

If you prefer efficiency and immediacy, on the other hand, there is the beTouch E200. This smartphone features a slide down keyboard, making it the ideal choice for those who require constant connection with their workplace and friends who yet prefer simple and intuitive communications.

It’s the perfect combination of a traditional mobile phone and a highly advanced smartphone.

neoTouch

Acer, for its top of the line model for processing power, graphic capabilities and comprehensive connectivity, has chosen the elegance of brown to represent it because brown is a colour that evokes sophistication, taste, decisiveness and solidity.

The Acer neoTouch is a fast and powerful device, complete and versatile, but at the same time attractive and easy to use. It is Acer’s response to those trendy and demanding users who are perfectly at ease with technology and who only choose devices that fully satisfy their expectations in terms of communications, information, and entertainment.

As you can see, specific details are somewhat lacking but we can confirm that the Acer BeTouch E100 and BeTouch E101, which are powered by 528MHz Qualcomm 7225 CPUs, run Windows Mobile 6.5, sport 3.2” WQVGA touchscreen displays, 2 megapixel cameras, a-GPS and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR wireless connectivity whilst offering 5 hours talktime and up to 400 hours standby and direct access to Social Networks such as Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and Blogger – the only difference between the two being that whilst both offer quadband GSM the E100 also brings dualband HSDPA to the table whilst the E101 boasts EDGE connectivity.

The WinMo 6.5 powered Acer BeTouch E200, however, unlike the E100 and E101, comes with a slider QWERTY keyboard whilst packing a higher resolution camera (3MP), a smaller 3” WQVGA touchscreen display but otherwise offers pretty much the same feature set such as a-GPS, the same talktime and standby times and the same direct access to the aforementioned social networking sites.

The Acer neoTouch S200, on the other hand, whilst also running WinMo 6.5, is a somewhat more powerful smartphone in being powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm 8250 processor whilst additionally packing a 3D graphics engine powering its 3.8” WVGA touchscreen display. The neoTouch’s camera is also of higher resolution, coming in at 5 megapixels whilst also featuring an LED flash and as well as offering the same Bluetooth 2.0+EDR wireless connectivity as the BeTouch phones detailed above also offers integrated WiFi (802.11 b/g).

All of the above Acer BeTouch and neoTouch smartphones are already available in the UK which pricing of the Acer beTouch E100, E101 & E200 coming in at around £210, 159 and £225 (circa $335, $253 and $253) respectively whilst the Acer neoTouch comes in at some £295 (around $470).