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When I purchased the huawei phone, the acatel became junk!
the huawei became a good tool.

when I purchased the new acer phone on may 1, do you know what happened?

The huawei is still a good tool but the acer is like King!

Excellent Taiwan product at excellent price! China product became junk in this case.
Very fast phone; 2 cameras; a lot more adjustments and option in the camera;
you can fast shoot 10 pictures!!! very fast shooting time compared with huawei.
Never buy huawei again! You can check my previous review! Long battery hours!
Small capacity of the battery means low power consumption! at least 4-6GB can be used to save apps! unlike huawei that you can only use 560mb! I download many apps including the offline wiki (4gb)! Amazing, right? Best deal ever; buy the acer phone today!

I think the above person is a lucky person. He has already got a few other nicer phones.
However, from the link he provided, you can see so-called Motorola phone provides better resolution...!? for 89 British Pounds = CAD163! And, does the motorola phone provides both front and rear lens with flashlight (torch light too)? Well, if you have $100 a month to spend on phone then you can buy iphone and all other phones become junk. However, if your budget is small, you can get a nice medium priced phone now for a price cheaper than a low end phone.
Just check other phones at speakout. Which phone provides 2 lens with flashlight and allow you to download big apps including wiki offine? I think you need to buy the motorola one with a price tag of $220 after discount. Check it out at 7-11 website. When people describe it as awful, which ones do you compare to? Samsung S5? iphone 6 or what other high end phones or medium priced phones? Remember this one has a price of half of a low-end priced phone.

So those of you who have bought this phone, what do you think of the screen quality? Is it 'awful', as bridonca suggests?

(By the way, I have a Huawei Y300 and I find it's screen just fine.)

Added second $100 to existing family line. No bonus minutes received, just the $100.

Oops, very newbie rookie mistake on my part. My younger bro showed me that lack of screen responsiveness is due to my non removal of factory shipped screen dust protector. Once removed, the screen responsiveness is vastly improved.

To update the data question I raised above, I just called customer service and was told that the $10 data charge would only be deducted if I opted for the data add-on after the 2 months initial trial (of 100Mb/month). So I'll check later to see if that's the case.

I already have a problem with this Acer Z220 that we just bought.

I was trying the included tutorial (to help me learn about it) and the phone now seems to be locked into that mode. Can''t access anything because the screen won't respond. First the screen said "touch disabled while tutorial is speaking" except that it wasn't speaking. There was an EXIT panel and a NEXT panel but neither would respond.

Then, a little voice started reading out all the details, time, wifi on, battery % etc etc. and it also stated the name of each icon I touched but nothing happens and I can't get out of it.

I tried removing/replacing the battery, and the sim card but the phone still comes back in the same mode.

Any ideas other than to return it?

Thanks...I tried that several times but it's no different. It powers off but when it comes back on, it reverts to the same tutorial mode.

A voice just keeps repeating the phone details, "bluetooth off, wifi on, 4 bars, battery 65%" etc etc. Then if I touch an icon, a green dotted line appears around it and the voice declares the name of the icon.

It's just the same with the sim card removed so it seems nothing to do with Speakout. Is this "tutorial" a feature of Android 5.0, or is it something Acer have put into the phone?

Thanks for the heads up on this deal, Peter! I ran out and got one put my sim in and I am very pleased withit.
New to android myself but can't resist a few notes:
...don't let that review in post 4 turn you away...sure the pictures are not super for pixel-peeping but you have to consider they were thinking of inclusion to Multimediamessages etc. so compression is suitably high to save data. That in mind, they look pretty good to me.

gps is not the best -can be intermittent but It might be software issue. If you are new to Android, and keep a tinfoil hat in your closet, remember it is pretty much Google spyware.

There is a general issue in android 5.0 "lollipop"? with the stuff you put on an sd card. It is all set to a kind of "read only" by the phone so editing certain files can only be done by deleting the ones on the card and replacing with a new file, edited, from your computer. There's talk of this online....

@NW711 maybe a tip for you? turn the phone sideways to use the keyboard. No way I could use it in "portrait" mode.