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hello phone fans I'm the Westway the cnet's we're here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to check out to new asa phones first up let's take a look at this guy this is the a-sun liquid e1 this is the slightly fancier of the two smartphones so here you can see it's got a 4.5 inch display and that has a 960 x 540 pixel resolution it's got a dual core 1 gigahertz processor that doesn't sound too glorious when I say it like that but this phone actually feels pretty snappy it seems quite responsive so I'm not too concerned to be honest if you flip it around on the back you can see it's got a 5 megapixel camera it's got an LED flash as well there is a front-facing camera that has a much lower resolution of not point 3 megapixels so you might find your video calls look just a little bit pixelated it's got dual speakers and an FM radio and it's running Android version 4.1 now that is not the most recent version of Android but it's pretty close so you'll get access to the app store of course and all of these home screens that you can fill with widgets and other exciting apps I have to say I'm quite impressed by the e ones design I like the red accents here on the speaker and lock button and if you flip it around you see you get this pattern shaped grill across the back and you also get these speakers and the camera it's quite a nice effect overall if that's a little bit rich for your blood then you might want to check out the Acer Liquid z2 which is a smaller cousin to the phone we just looked at so this one has a 3.5 inch display which is a lot smaller that's got a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels that's not a huge pixel count to be honest so you might find web pages and things looking just a little bit blurrier than you'd like it's got a 1 gigahertz processor on the inside of it but because of that low resolution and the fact that you're probably going to be running quite undemanding apps you should find its kind of fast enough for what you need to do if I spin it around you can see it's got a 3 megapixel camera and it's got this quite nice looking speaker down here as well running android version 4.1 jelly bean just like the last phone that we looked at in terms of design this phone is the perfect antidote if you're sick of palm ruining smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 it's extremely small and it feels very light as well spin it around and I like this curved effect on the back overall I would say this is a compact quite attractive little phone the only thing that really lets it down is this low resolution screen both phones are going to be coming out in Russia and the UK in mid-march other European countries will follow shortly after that unfortunately there's no word at the moment of the US release date the z2 is going to cost about a hundred euros while the e1 is going to cost a slightly pricier 200 euros or thereabout on the west road casino terror mobile Congress and here are two new acer smartphones