The Acer W4 has been one of the great Windows Phone no-shows, with the company appearing on Microsoft’s roster of phone partners and then the device itself showing up in June; but nothing since. At the time it wore a November release date, and although this has now been met, it’s still MIA in the UK, as the W4 is only launching in France.
It’s not going to be called the W4 either, at least according the French site which broke the news, and will instead be called the Acer Allegro. While ‘Allegro’ may mean ‘a lively musical tempo’, to anyone over a certain age it merely recalls the invariably brown Austin Allegro, a car so staid it had a square steering wheel.
Unfortunate naming aside, the Allegro’s release spec matches that of its earlier appearances, boasting a 3.6-inch touchscreen with the Windows Phone standard 800 x 480 pixel resolution, plus a 1GHz processor, a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, 8GB of internal memory, Bluetooth 2.1 and Wi-Fi connectivity.
The only feature which makes the Allegro standout from the crowd is something called Fast Charge, which promises to charge the 1300mAh battery two-and-a-half times faster than other Acer devices take. What that means in the real world isn’t clear, but the faster modern smartphones charge, the better!
Those across the Channel will be able to choose their Allegro in either white or blue, provided they hand over 299 euros for it. It’s out in November, but word has yet to spread whether it’ll be released anywhere else; however with its basic spec it’ll have plenty of competition on these shores unless the price is significantly lowered beforehand.
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