We watched as Acer unveiled their 4.8 inch Iconia Smart smartphone during Mobile World Congress back in February and at the time we were given a complete set of specs but left wondering which carriers the handset would come available with.
And strangely, things remained rather quite on the rumor front. But that aside, it was noted that the handset would be available beginning May 1st, but again, with which carrier was the question. Well, flash forward till today and a recently discovered FCC filing may have some clues.
According to the filing, the Iconia Smart will have support for the North American friendly 850, 1900 and 2100 MHz bands. In other words, this handset could be released with AT&T in the US as well as Rogers up in Canada. Given that, it seems strange that we have not seen any announcement from either. But who knows, maybe Acer quietly delayed the handset. Or maybe we are going to see a press release drop sooner rather than later.
With that, we offer a reminder in terms of the specs and also a bit of warning — this will probably not be a phone that everyone is going to lust after given the size of the display — its more tablet like if you ask us. With that, the Iconia Smart will be running Android 2.3 Gingerbread and featuring a 4.8 inch display with a 1024 x 480 resolution, 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8255 processor, 512MB RAM, 512MB ROM, GPS, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, 1500 mAh battery and a 2 megapixel front facing camera along with an 8 megapixel camera on the back.
So how about it, any AT&T and/or Rogers customers looking forward to seeing a tablet-like smartphone come available? If nothing else, judging from some of the comments that we have seen in the past defending the Dell Streak 5, we know there is a loyal, albeit small group that should be happy.
