Acer has outed two new Android phones at the Computex conference: the beTouch E120 and beTouch E130. The E130 is a traditional, BlackBerry-style candybar, with a 2.6″ 320 x 240 touchscreen, portrait-oriented physical QWERTY keyboard, 3.2 megapixel camera, 416 MHz processor from ST Ericsson, 256 MB of RAM, 512 MB of ROM, and running Android 1.6. This is the first time we’ve seen Android in this form factor, and seems to strike a nice balance between small size and a full range of input options. The E120 has most of the same specs, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and custom apps like Spinlets media and UrFooz for social networking, but is instead packing a 2.8″ resistive touchscreen in a traditional slate form factor.
These are both in line with the other low-end Android handsets Acer announced at Mobile World Congress, and really punctuate their attempt to get affordable, decent Android phones out there. Acer will have a relatively hard time swinging with the big boys like Motorola and HTC at the high end, but as a relatively new player to smartphones, it’s probably best that they go for the low-hanging fruit first. Their highest-end handset, the Liquid E, just made its way to Rogers at an aggressively low price point – we’re hoping to get some time to play with it soon.