The exciting part about the phone is our friends from and.roid.es are reporting the Liquid e will retail for €275 ($374) €359 ($494) before subsidies. That would place this phone around the same price as many mid level Android phones, but still pack a punch with its Snapdragon processor.

A new Android device is always welcome, but the reason for this “refresh” seems a little unclear and why Acer did not at least unleash the full power of the Snapdragon processor rather than keeping it underclocked at 768 MHz is a real mystery.

The only other tidbit of note is that as you may remember the Liquid is supposed to be coming to AT&T in the first half of 2010. So whether the version that lands stateside will offer you Android 1.6 or 2.1 is unclear at the moment.

The new list of features which Acer is touting includes:

• Home screens – The new version now handles five home screens by default, allowing users to easily install more applications from the rich selection available on the Android Market, as well as shortcuts and widgets;
• Quick Contacts – a feature that lets users easily switch between the address book and the social network applications;
• Live wallpapers to customize your Liquid e on the fly;
• A new keyboard layout with an extended dictionary for predictive input;
• An updated version of the Android browser, supporting HTML5, double-tap zooming, video tagging support and geo-location API support.

Acer Liquid e specs.

Acer Liquid e specs continued.

Acer recently announced a half dozen phones on target for the first half of 2010. We’ve heard rumors of other phones headed to AT&T, but this is the first we’ve seen approved by the FCC. Could this Acer snapdragon phone be the first Android offering on AT&T?

Acer Liquid A1 submitted to the FCC

We originally thought the Acer Liquid would be a 1 GHz phone since it featured the Snapdragon platform, but we were wrong. French site Revioo.com attended the Acer press conference last month and captured the actual clock speed from one of the presentation slides. Hopefully, one of the other Android-powered Snapdragon phones will ship with the full 1 GHz speed.

The Liquid will run at 768 MHz instead of 1 GHz.

The Acer Liquid is reported to be available overseas sometime in November and will ship with Android 1.6. Revioo also has a quick video overview of the Acer Liquid posted to YouTube.

Could it be? The first Snapdragon powered Android handset? It looks like Acer has officially announced the Liquid A1 which will reportedly sport a 1GHz Snapdragon Processor and run Android 1.6. Also, it appears that this phone will be targeting multimedia fans with its 800 x 480 WVGA capacitive touchscreen and “easy access to entertainment and web bookmarks” together with “longer battery autonomy for intense users”. Check out the links below for more information and pictures.

The Acer Liquid also offers several unique software enhancements including:

• Improved power management to help achieve longer battery autonomy for intense users;
• A new user interface with easy access to entertainment and web bookmarks;
• An optimized camera with geo-tagging, ISO, self-timer options and accelerated auto-focus performance;
• Exclusive Spinlets™ application providing free streaming of worldwide music and video, that can be shared with friends and family through web-posting or e-mail;
• Smart integration of Facebook™, Twitter™, Youtube™, Picasa™ and Flickr™ in the address book, with realtime notification of status or content updates.

The Acer Liquid features a 5 megapixel camera.

[via Electricpig, Acer PR]