IFA 2014: Acer Liquid Z500 is a low-cost 5-inch smartphone

Acer's Z500 is a low-cost 5-inch smartphone

Acer has announced a low cost smartphone at IFA 2014, with the Liquid Z500 very much focused on the music-loving youth market.

Boasting what Acer is calling "CD quality" audio and "powerful and advanced" front facing speakers - which do, in fairness, bring DTS Studio Sound.

Specs wise, the phone has a 5-inch IPS screen and an 8MP camera - which may well appeal to its target demographic.

It's 8.6mm thick and comes in three colours: Titanium Black, Sandy Silver and Aquamarine Green. We're most impressed with Sandy Silver.

Price-wise it's been pegged at 149 euros - which is around £118 or $195 and launches in Europe on September 15.

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IFA 2014: Tosh offers up low-cost convertible Satellite Radius 11

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Tosh announces two slightly novel Satellites

Toshiba has announced two new 11.6-inch Satellite devices, the convertible Radius 11 and the CL10-B, both pitched at the more cost friendly end of the market.

Tosh's latest offerings include the hinge-tastic Satellite Radius 11 which can be shifted into multiple form factors including laptop mode (duh) tablet mode, audience mode, presentation mode and tabletop mode.We reckon you'll use at least two of those, but the option is always nice.

It's a Windows 8.1 PC which weighs in at 1.1KG with 500GB storage and 'up to' 4GB of RAM.

Next up is the niftily named Satellite CL10-B which is described as 'compact' and is designed at those people who eschew local storage to live in the Cloud.

That means a paltry 2GB of RAM and just 32GB storage - but does give you 100GB of OneDrive cloud storage and Office online.

There are no prices yet but the Toshiba Satellite Radius 11 and Satellite CL10-B will be available in the UK during the fourth quarter of 2014.

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