Acer Liquid Glow With Ice Cream Sandwich, NFC Expected at MWC

Acer announced today that it will reveal the Liquid Glow at next week's Mobile World Congress, a smartphone targeted towards young people that runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

The Liquid Glow features a 3.7-inch screen, curved edges, and chrome details. It comes in three colors – Sakura Pink, Alpine White, and Cat's-eye Black – and the color of the display varies based on the color of the phone.

With Ice Cream Sandwich installed out of the box, the phone also includes Google's voice-recognition technology. Additionally, it has a 5-megapixel camera with an LED flash for lower light, panoramic image capture, and touch focus. Using Android Beam, this NFC-enabled phone allows users to share photos with one tap to another NFC-powered Android gadget. Android Beam also lets them share other data like contacts, apps, music, videos, and so on.

The Liquid Glow will go on sale this summer, Acer said.

Acer provided some ICS rollout details for its other devices last week. On Friday, for example, it started to its Iconia Tab line of tablets, starting with owners in the United States. The 7-inch tablet and 10-inch tablet will both be updated in April.

Ice Cream Sandwich has been slow to reach some of the top smartphones, though more and more handset makers are revealing their rollout plans lately.

HTC last week said three Verizon smartphones will get ICS: the , , and . Earlier in the month, its first round of ICS upgrades will roll out by the end of March for the HTC Sensation, HTC Sensation 4G and HTC Sensation XE, followed soon after by the HTC Sensation XL.

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