14 DAY TRIAL // Android 2.0, also known as the Eclair update for Google's mobile operating system, has arrived on the market back in November pre-loaded on the highly-popular Motorola DROID / MILESTONE mobile phone, and is now reported to be on its way to a larger number of handsets. One of the phones that will soon receive a bit of Eclair is the Acer Liquid A1, and it seems that March 2010 is the time frame when that should happen.
The French blog Mobinaute stated recently that Acer France already confirmed the fact that it planned on delivering the Android 2.0 update to the Liquid A1, but did that rather unofficially. However, in case the software solution will be delivered to Acer's Android phone, it is also expected to activate new features on the handset, including multi-touch capabilities, something that other European Android devices already offer (Motorola MILESTONE).
The Acer Liquid A1, as many of you might already know, comes to the market with a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor that runs under 1GHz, as it does on other mobile phones on the market (WM-based Toshiba TG01 and HTC HD2, or the upcoming Android-powered Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10). In case the handset will receive Android 2.0 with multi-touch capabilities, it will easily prove itself to be one of the most appealing Android handsets on the market, that's for sure.
The phone has been launched not too long ago with Donut (Android 1.6) on board, and, even if Eclair will come to it, it might not run under the latest Android iteration in the end. Android 2.1 (Flan) is also expected to arrive in the near future, pre-loaded on the Nexus One by HTC phone, and might also be delivered as an update to other devices already on the market, something that will leave Acer's handset one step behind when updated to 2.0 in March. However, since nothing is yet official, we should wait and see how things will turn out in the end, so stay tuned.