One of UK’s largest online retailers, eXpansys, has announced that they will be offering the Acer Stream smart phone this coming August 9. The device is expected to bring in a new era of Acer devices.

While the Liquid series of Android smart phones from Acer was quite interesting, no other device from the computer manufacturer is as compellingly engrossing as the Stream. And by engrossed, we mean it in both the hardware and the form factor. The handset itself simply looks good –a definite first for Acer. While the beTouch and Liquid devices were decent smart phones, the Stream is a solid notch above all the rest. The phone’s form factor, color and texture give it a balance in design that is hard to deny.

Specs wise, the Stream matches up nicely with the Google Nexus One and the HTC Desire. The phone also packs a 3.7 inch AMOLED capacitive touch screen display with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels, a 5 mega pixel camera, plenty of internal storage, the Android operating system (according to reports, will come loaded with Android 2.1 Éclair. An update to 2.2 Froyo is expected to be made available soon), support for GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, microSD cards and more. Basically, it’s the whole smart phone package.

Acer is also going to feature the Acer Touch 3D user interface. With the handset’s 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU, running the graphics and effects on the handset will be a breeze.

With several Android devices already available on the market, Acer’s latest offering is a testament to how influential the Google operating system has become. It is expected that several more Android smart phone will be released before the end of the year, making this year the most prolific in terms of the number of Android devices released within the period.

Among the hottest newly launched handsets reaching the markets featuring Google’s Android as its operating system is Acer’s Liquid A1. The phone has been released in the markets in the UK and can be obtained from places such as Cove and Expansys. But why we talk about the handset right now is to share with you a video on the YouTube from TechnoloShree demonstrating the Acer Liquid A1 being unboxed.

Acer’s Liquid A1 can really tempt a lot of customers in the UK with its features. The phone is equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. The only difference is that unlike handsets like the HTC HD2 and the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10, which feature a 1 GHz chip, it works at 786 GHz. Apart from that, the phone can offer its users 256 MB of RAM and no less than 510 MB of ROM. And of course you could always increase the memory using the SD memory card slot.

The great thing about this video is that shows you exactly what you get when you unpack a brand new Liquid A1; and what exactly would you find inside the box. To be specific, we can see the user manuals, the charger, an SD adapter and a Sandisk MicroSD card with 2GB space. But the real fun begins, when he turns the phone on. The Acer’s tailor-made Spinlets UI skin smoothly slides over the Android 1.6 version OS running the handset.

To tell you more about the Liquid A1, it features an impressive 3.5 inch capacitive touch-screen with a resolution of 800 x 400 pixels, really bringing the Android experience at its fullest. Apart from that, it also comes with a 5.0 mega pixel auto-focus camera, a 3.5 mm headphone jack, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and a GPS receiver. For those who are wondering about whether the phone can get an Android version 2.0 update, we don’t have any more info unfortunately, and the same goes to the US users who would like to give the phone a try.