2.1 for Acer Liquid

The Acer Liquid e has been announced which is basically the Acer Liquid with an updated OS from Android 1.6 (Donut) to 2.1 (Eclair) and should be out this month. Attempting to call this a new phone by giving it an "e" moniker just leaves everyone confused. The blogs/techfeed react by saying this is the same phone, just with an updated OS. What could have been a positive "Acer updates the Liquid to 2.1 goodness making a great phone even better" gets at best a "huh? Liquid e, eh?". Meanwhile the early adopters that have helped to make the Liquid such a grassroots success are left scratching their heads - does this mean their existing Liquids are getting an update to 2.1 or not? Presumably unless Acer really wants to generate some bad reaction an update will be coming.

HTC by contrast have been very good about letting people knowing where they stand. Pre-announcing ROM updates. They've generated a lot of goodwill from users and remember HTC fluffed the original release of the HTC Hero, the ROM was slow leading to initial reviews claiming the handset was "laggy". They quickly released an updated ROM that fixed the problem and will even support 2.1 on the Hero.

So Acer why so silent, how about some clarity.

Meanwhile if you really can't wait for the Android 2.1 love there's always.....

acer-liquid-community-rom-bugtracker - Project Hosting on Google Code