Acer Stream

Despite being billed as a multimedia phone first and foremost, this handset is a long way from being a star performer for photo and video tasks. Everything else is just about acceptable, but its a shame at the screen isn't brighter and that...

A powerful, up-to-date Android phone, but its large AMOLED screen is disappointingly dim....

This is yet another bonus on a phone with a great feature set which also has a good camera and tidy design. Acer Stream...

This is certainly a stylish and highly usable handset but it strays so far from vanilla Android as to be something quite different. Accessing menus, apps and widgets is different from any other Android handset. If you’re new to the platform this...

The Stream is Acer’s best phone to date. It has a gorgeous screen, is very easy to use, boasts great sound and video quality and is generally a great all-round device. We can’t help but lament the lack of a flash on the camera, but otherwise...

Acer has pitched its Stream smartphone as a multimedia powerhouse, but it fails to live up to expectations. The Acer Stream is far from a bad smartphone, but given its price it doesn't do enough to be considered a valid alternative to more proven...

Interestingly, the device comes with a micro-HDMI output port, allowing it to be connected to a larger HDTV to display its multimedia content. This is a rare inclusion in a smartphone and, apart from the Nokia N8, which is due to arrive this month,...

It’s fair to say that none of Acer’s previous smartphones have been greeted with a rapturous critical reception. There have been some decent phones among its brood, such as the , but on the whole the company hasn’t been able to repeat...