"We believe that we will capture small screen smartphone and large screen smartphone," said Liew. "A lot of people have started abandoning 3.5 inch. No, we are going to persist on 3.5 inch and we are going to make a 3.5 inch suitable for a segment of people that treasure smaller screen devices."
The mention of "large screen" was in reference to the company's new phablet, the Acer Liquid S1, which measures in at 5.7-inches. Earlier in the interview when talking about industrial design, Liew had asked EMEA vice president of smartphone Allen Burnes if he had "the ZX".
"I can't show you, Allen [Burnes] stopped me from showing it to you," said Liew with a chuckle, before telling us the some of the plans anyway. "We are going to announce a 3.5-inch device pretty soon which is proud to be small."
Acer also told us that its emphasis for smartphones was on enabling the hardware and creating a user experience without over-engineering elements unnecessarily.
We don't have an exact date for launch other than "pretty soon", or any other specs, but Acer is certainly excited about its 3.5-inch handset.
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