Is it worth the money?

[Guest DigitalDarkness]

Hi guys i have a few questions i would like to ask you guys . . . .

I have currently got a gt540 and i must say apart from the irritatingly useless touch screen, its a good phone, BUT i have seen the acer liquid e on Pixmania.co.uk

for £170.!!

What i want to know is it a good trade and is it easy to add custom rom's etc . . . .

Also next thursday i will be ordering it, if any one from the uk wants a gt540 let me know.

Karl.

[Guest Piter1225]

Hi guys i have a few questions i would like to ask you guys . . . .

I have currently got a gt540 and i must say apart from the irritatingly useless touch screen, its a good phone, BUT i have seen the acer liquid e on Pixmania.co.uk

for £170.!!

What i want to know is it a good trade and is it easy to add custom rom's etc . . . .

Also next thursday i will be ordering it, if any one from the uk wants a gt540 let me know.

Karl.

My friends have gt540, they have always been impressed with my Liquid A1, Liquid E is even better, in thi price range it's good device, but consider, that outside of custom ROM's, it won't get Gingerbread for 90%...

[Guest DigitalDarkness]

My friends have gt540, they have always been impressed with my Liquid A1, Liquid E is even better, in thi price range it's good device, but consider, that outside of custom ROM's, it won't get Gingerbread for 90%...

gingerbread is 2.3 right? If so im very happy with 2.2 . . . . are the liquid e's easy to flash etc?

[Guest Piter1225]

gingerbread is 2.3 right? If so im very happy with 2.2 . . . . are the liquid e's easy to flash etc?

Yes, there are many tutorials, there is no locked bootloader, and the community support is still quite good (many custom ROMs)

[Guest Fadox]

Man that's exactly my question, currently i have a gt540, it's a good phone, no worries, etc but the possibility to buy acer liquid e for 199€ is just excellent, i think i'll buy it.. I just hope that devs continue supporting this phone and dont leave it for liquid metal for example

[Guest Rajit]

even if the support stops in the future i don't see that as being a deal breaker, since it works pretty well with 2.2.

[Guest Fadox]

yea but i had in mind that next phone that i'd buy should have many roms coming, like a galaxy s. But liquid E have a great price now, and that's why i'm making those questions

[Guest tantalus]

i think it is worth the money. in short, these are the differences:

gt540 has a msm8x25,which is a somewhat older.means it has less mhz (625 for the gt540).i believe that the liquid e's qsd8650 (in liquid with 760mhz (or some like this)) would be better optimised, meaning less watt per cpu operation.additionally qsd8560 is still supported by google. there is no 2.6.32 (froyos kernel) for msm8x25 and for sure there will be no .35 (gingerbread). i believe this is the real reason why you wont find anything newer than 2.1 on this rather old hardware.

my sister owns a gt540, so i have a direct comparison (altough pixmania send me a broken liquid!!)

then you have a way better display, very bright with a high resolution. the liquid has a capacitive touchscreen, allowing multitouch that is easier so handle (my opinion, my sister with long fingernails and gloves in winter prefers resistive). it has more ram. as mentioned before, the liquid has officially 2.2. and gt540 2.1. updating the lg phone is really annoying, they produced some windos crap to update that did not work for me at all (i had to use 3rd party tools). i think it hasn't even fastboot, and for sure there are no custom roms for the gt540.

the gt540 on the other hand is way smaller. its size lets you think its a regular phone.

i dont think in british money, but the gt540 cost EUR 120, the liquid EUR 200. to me the difference of EUR 80 was worth it.

hope i could help.

[Guest DigitalDarkness]

i think it is worth the money. in short, these are the differences:

gt540 has a msm8x25,which is a somewhat older.means it has less mhz (625 for the gt540).i believe that the liquid e's qsd8650 (in liquid with 760mhz (or some like this)) would be better optimised, meaning less watt per cpu operation.additionally qsd8560 is still supported by google. there is no 2.6.32 (froyos kernel) for msm8x25 and for sure there will be no .35 (gingerbread). i believe this is the real reason why you wont find anything newer than 2.1 on this rather old hardware.

my sister owns a gt540, so i have a direct comparison (altough pixmania send me a broken liquid!!)

then you have a way better display, very bright with a high resolution. the liquid has a capacitive touchscreen, allowing multitouch that is easier so handle (my opinion, my sister with long fingernails and gloves in winter prefers resistive). it has more ram. as mentioned before, the liquid has officially 2.2. and gt540 2.1. updating the lg phone is really annoying, they produced some windos crap to update that did not work for me at all (i had to use 3rd party tools). i think it hasn't even fastboot, and for sure there are no custom roms for the gt540.

the gt540 on the other hand is way smaller. its size lets you think its a regular phone.

i dont think in british money, but the gt540 cost EUR 120, the liquid EUR 200. to me the difference of EUR 80 was worth it.

hope i could help.

Thanks for your input guys!!

I have decided to get myself a . . . wait for it . . .. . . Htc Desire Hd @ £25pcm. for 18 months on 3.

[Guest tantalus]

the hd of course is unstoppable...seems you get them pretty cheap with a contract.a friend has it,paying EUR 20 per month (24 at all) on vodafone.EUR 120 single payment.hes got internet,unlimited calls to fixed lines and vodafone.nice price i think.