Acer has launched the company’s latest 4G smartphone in the Liquid Z Series – Acer Liquid Z530 & Acer Liquid Z630S at a price tag of Rs. 6,999 and Rs. 10,999 respectively. Both the smartphone will be available on exclusively on Flipkart. The Acer Liquid Z530 will go on sale on Flipkart from today while the Acer Liquid Z630S will be available via flash sale. The registration for the sale will start on Flipkart from midnight and the sale will begin on 12h November.
Commenting on the launch, S.T. Liew, President, Smart Products Business Group, Acer Inc said:
“At Acer we are conscious of the world getting faster and demanding more from life in every way. Their dependence on technology is growing and so we want to make their lives simpler and enriching. Therefore, while the Liquid Z630s appeals to the elegant, beauty conscious and highly social user, the Liquid Z530 is more suited to the youth who demands to remain connected round the clock. Its ‘Always Ready Everywhere’ capability helps users to multi-task between work and entertainment. All this comes sealed with the promise of quality from the Acer brand name.”
“Keeping in par with the Indian government’s Make-in-India initiative, we are excited to announce that these smartphones will be manufactured locally in India. The plant will be operational by December 2015 and will have production capacity of over 1 lakh phones per month. As the demand for the smartphones increase, the investment and production capacity of the plant will also be scaled up appropriately.”
Sandeep Karwa, Director Retail, Flipkart.com said:
“Smartphones are one of the fastest growing segments for Flipkart.com with customers becoming more feature and value conscious. Acer is globally known for its performance and smart computing systems, they are now entering the Indian smartphone market and we are happy to partner with them in this journey. At Flipkart.com, we are constantly on the lookout for offering our customers great value buys and Acer smartphones are a valuable addition to our smartphone category.”
On the specifications front, the Acer Liquid Z530 features 5-inch HD IPS display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels and it is powered by 64-bit quad-core 1.3GHz MediaTek MT6753 processor which is paired with 2GB of RAM. It runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop operating system with Acer UI on top of it and 8GB in-built memory which can be expanded further up to 32GB via microSD card.
On the imaging front, it features 8-megapixel rear-camera with LED flash and 8-megapixel front-facing camera for selfie & video-calling.
It has dual-SIM support with connectivity features like 4G LTE / 3G HSPA+, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS.
The phone measures 144 x 70.3 x 8.9mm and weighs 145 grams with battery.
It packs 2420mAh battery.
On the specifications front, the Acer Liquid Z630S features 5.5-inch HD IPS display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels and and it is powered by 1.3 GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6753 64-bit processor with Mali-T720 GPU & 3GB of RAM. It runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop with Acer UI on top of it and has 32GB in-built memory which can be expanded further via microSD card.
On the imaging front, it features 8-megapixel rear-camera with LED flash and 8-megapixel front-facing camera for selfie & video-calling.
It has dual-SIM support with connectivity features like 4G LTE / 3G HSPA+, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS.
This phone measures 156.3×77.5×8.9mm and its weight is 165 grams with battery.
It packs 4000mAh battery.
Acer Liquid Z630S vs Acer Liquid Z530
The Liquid Z630s is comes with AcerEXTEND which connects wirelessly to a compatible laptop or PC and lets you view the phone’s home screen in a phone-shaped emulator box on the computer.
Both the smartphones have HD IPS screen with Zero Air Gap to ensure bright rendering of color and incorporates DTS Studio Sound for giving high-quality audio performance for music and movies.
Both the above smartphones will be manufactured in India at the company’s new facility in Pondicherry and the production will start in the month of December.