Description
The Acer Liquid Z4 is a fairly small plastic phone. It comes in two main finishes, one that's white with silver trim and a black one with red highlights. Both of them look pretty good.
It's a curvy phone all-round. Its front has friendly-looking bulgy sides and the back too is curved. It is nothing special, but it's a solid design.
However, it has one Acer-given stand-out. There's a button on the back that can be used as a shortcut to your favourite app. As standard it heads to the camera – a sensible choice – but this can be customised.
The soft keys have a distinct Acer look too, but functionally they're totally standard. As with almost any budget Android, storage is limited at 4GB but there is a microSD memory card slot under the plastic back.The Acer Liquid Z4 looks and feels like a decent entry-level Android phone, but there is more of a serious compromise in the screen.
It's a 4-inch display of 480 x 800 pixel resolution. That's not super-high, but roughly what we expect at this level.
It's the Z4's panel that's the issue. The phone does not use an IPS-grade LCD, and there's pretty significant contrast shift when viewed from certain angles. It affects the vertical angle rather than the horizontal, so isn't massively obvious in normal, casual use. But it is a sign that this is a pretty basic display.
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