Software
Every device comes shipped with third party software. We haven’t quite seen mobile devices get drowned in crap-ware as we’ve seen in the PC market but sometimes it can feel like. Luckily the software that comes with the Acer Liquid Z5 isn’t too invasive and in some cases actually adds decent features.
Along with a few handy apps, such as the file manager and torch, you also get Acers flavour of cloud offerings including abMusic, abVideo, and abFiles. Oddly these are delivered via the Acer Portal, which is just a page of links taking you to the Google Play store. It might have been more straightforward to just bundle these on the phone itself.
Senior mode in Quick Mode
One of the bundled apps which doesn’t get much exposure is Quick Mode. This provide a set of preconfigure dashboards which you can lock in place with a pin code. Each dashboard is configured with a set of tiles allowing the user quick access only to certain features. So, you might want to give your phone to an elderly relative and you can set the dashboard to Senior Mode which gives them big clear buttons for speed dials, messages and the brilliant magnify mode utilising the camera as a magnifying glass. This kind of feature is available from other apps but it’s good to see a vendor understanding the different uses that their device might have.
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