Clearly, smartphone makers are running out ideas to come up with better selling points because it’s getting stupider by the day. Some even started to make phones covered with gold while others make phones with giant displays that doesn’t even fit to a pocket. Acer has joined this club of frustrated corporations with its’ latest Liquid S2 smartphone which they claims to be the “first smartphone capable of recording video at 4K resolution”. That’s 3,840 pixels x 2,160 pixels.
According to Talk Android, the 13MP camera with 4K video recording is also capable of taking 27MP panorama photos. And on the inside, Acer Liquid S2 sports 6-inch 1080p IPS display with 368 ppi, quad-core Snapdragon chip cocked at 2.2GHz , 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage and Android 4.2.2.
Yes, all that sounds amazing. But, the real question here is, do we really need 4k HD displays on phones? I mean I can understand having a high resolution display for a TV. That just means better picture quality for watching movies. How about phones, are we suppose to make ultra HD phone calls? Just like Gizmodo says, it’s “totally pointless [because] a 4K [smartphone or tablet] would be like using a nuclear bomb to obliterate a cockroach — which, by the way, is what a 4K display would do to battery life and performance.”
You can check out Engadget’s hands-on review for a closer look.
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