Windows Phone 7 may be just around the corner, but we’re still expecting a few new handsets based on the outgoing version of Windows Mobile to be launched in the intervening months. Acer’s neoTouch P300 wasannounced at MWC 2010 back in February, a WinMo 6.5.3 device with a hardware keyboard and European 3G. Check out our full review after the cut.
Based on Qualcomm’s MSM7225 528MHz processor, the neoTouch P300 has a 3.2-inch WQVGA resistive touchscreen, 256MB of RAM and 512MB ROM, together with a microSD card slot and slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Connectivity includes quadband GSM and 2100MHz HSDPA, along with WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 and a 3.5mm headphone socket, plus there’s A-GPS and a 3.2-megapixel autofocus camera. The whole thing measures in at a reasonably compact 110 x 55 x 15.1 mm and weighs 130.6g with the 1010mAh battery.
To be honest, none of the specifications particularly stand out – the CPU, for instance, can be found powering numerous Windows Phones from the past few years – and the resistive touchscreen (complete with stylus) seems deeply unfashionable in comparison to other devices on the market today. Physical design of the P300 is sober but neat, with three buttons running along the lower front panel – call, Windows and hang-up – together with a hardware ringer switch that doubles as a volume control and a camera shortcut on the right-hand side. Up top there’s a power/lock button, a 3.5mm headphone socket, and a flap covering the microUSB port and microSD card slot. On the bottom there’s the speaker and a tricky-to-remove stylus.
