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the name says it all one quick look and you'll think of a smartphone came straight out of your bathroom closet ready tackle those hard water stands in your tub hey guys John Belasco here with the Android thority and I'm doing a quick hands-on look with the Acer Liquid zest plus jokes aside this is a mid-range phablet of sorts it was announced at acer's press event in New York City today the only new smartphone to be exact while it might be hard to take it seriously it definitely will turn heads with it's under $250 price point even with the affordable cost attached to it there's really nothing striking with the design called conventional call it mundane it's purely a plastic constructed smartphone and it looks much like the other lower to mid range handsets we've seen in the liquid series the plastic construction doesn't give us confidence at all but it helps to give it a lightweight feel in the hand but seriously it's nowhere remotely close to achieving the same level as today's high-end devices for the price you're getting Android 6.0 marshmallow you mostly stock affair for the most part it also features a 5.5 inch HD screen a mediatek mt6752 good bytes of RAM 16 gigabytes of internal storage a 5 megapixel wide-angle front camera and a tripod 13 megapixel rear camera that sounds fancy and all but it's just Jorgen for a camera configuration that consists of laser phase detection and contrast detection focusing so we check it out quickly and it seems to cut down on the focusing time now though it's tough to gauge its quality previewing the snapshots through the phone screen they look good but it has trouble casting and neutral exposure with high contrast scenes again this is just all preliminary stuff shutter books however will be loaded with full manual controls on board being a mid ranger there's always going to be that reluctance about making it a daily driver just because it's unknown if ESO will bring it up to speed with the latest Android experience lastly this phablet is packin a whopping five thousand milliamp hour battery now that's quite a hefty towel if you ask any so we can only hope for better than average results with its battery life as obnoxious as the name might be this phone certainly has its appeal as a backup the sub 250 price point is kind of tough given the handful of sub $200 phones out there already saturating the market on the opposite end the spectrum if you're looking for substantial savings for a daily driver this more than makes it up with its low price so if you guys want to learn more about this handset you could check out our website Android Authority comm your source for all things Android and this is John Velasco signing out