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Smart phones have been popularity over the last some time or years  and their sales continue to grow up rapidly. Acer is newly entered in the race of smart phone and the manufacturer stakes on Windows Mobile. The company has recently released several new handsets and this review is focused on the most technologically advanced one – The Acer Neo-Touch (known as the Acer F1and Acer neoTouch S200). This is the second WM smart phone on the market that features 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. The neoTouch S200 runs Windows Mobile 6.5, enhanced with additional applications that provide access to popular social networks just like the beTouch E200.. Moreover, it comes with large 3.8-inch resistive touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera, GPS, Wi-Fi, accelerometer and 3.5mm jack.

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Tthe neoTouch has poor build quality. The materials used are cheap, and the device even makes creaking sounds if you apply any sort of twisting pressure to the casing. The back battery cover is so scratch-prone that after just 15 minutes in a pocket with no keys, it became covered in surface scratches and swirls. Acer still hasn’t gotten it right with build quality, and you’ll notice it the second you pick up the S200.
The screen, while super sharp and crisp indoors, turns unreadable outdoors. Because I had to disable screen brightness control, when outdoors I had to manually max out the brightness, which, even then, didn’t allow me to see the screen clearly.
Along with poor build quality comes poor software quality. While testing the neoTouch, I came across many weird bugs. For example, when accessing the Preferences screen, I would be taken to an empty page. Or, I would hear the camera sensor click repeatedly, almost as if it were taking photos without the photo application running. None of the bugs I experienced were deal-breakers, but just further indication that Acer needs to do more bug testing before deploying a device.
The GPS takes far too long to get a signal. For a cold start, it’d take about 100 seconds to get a fix and with a warm start, the device required 20 seconds to get a signal.
There’s no case included, the photo quality is poor and the video quality dull, the screen feels like the mushy resistive touch screens of several years ago, and you can’t natively play your favorite video file formats.