Acer today launched the Acer Liquid, an Android-powered smartphone running on Qualcomm’s 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, in Beijing, China. Unlike Motorola Droid that runs on Android 2.0, the Acer Liquid still runs on stable Android 1.6, which is kind of disappointing as the “Liquid” has 1GHz processing power and Acer failed to utilize it. The Acer Liquid doesn’t have any remodeled sexy User Interface; it just has a regular Android interface. Acer seem to think that Google’s battery management technology is sub par, and they replace the battery management with their own technology, which they said will provide longer battery life to this Android handset.

The Acer Liquid will be launched in the first quarter of 2010 in China. There is no information about its pricing.

Acer, the world’s third largest PC maker, is getting serious about cellular phone market. Today, Acer announced 4 new Tempo-series smart phones for the Asia-Pacific region, showing its ambition in cell phone maker, after seeing the recent boom of smartphone / PDA phone market. The 4 new smartphones are X960, F900, M900, and DX900.

X960

The X960 looks very alike to HTC Touch phones. In fact, the phone has almost identical features of HTC Touch, such as GPS, PDA, camera, MP3 player and a widget-based friendly interface for instant access to the web, email and your life online.

F900

The F900 is there to challenge iPhone 3G. It features a gigantic 3.8-inch WVGA touch screen. Like iPhone 3G, the X900 phone relies on visual QWERTY keyboard for input. It features a widget-based home screen based on Windows Mobile OS.

M900

The M900 looks very alike to Pantech Duo. The phone is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1, and is designed for mobile professionals who need to access corporate emails frequently. The phone has a gigantic 3.8-inch WVGA touchscreen, a sliding QWERTY keyboard, and Outlook Mobile.

DX900

The DX900 is the world’s first dual-sim phone to support 3G and 2G Sims. This feature allows users to have flexible mobile connectivity for fast Internet access on the same phone. This might not make sense for US users whose phones are mostly carrier locked, but for other countries, where users are free to swap carrier by having changing sim cards, the dual-sim feature would help users.