Acer Aspire 5652WLMi Review

Pocket-lint takes a look at one of Acer’s recent offerings, and while everyone else is waring it out on price, Acer has added something new and interesting: 3G.

Acer isn’t scared of bringing new ideas to market ahead of the rest of the pack, which means they’ve become something of an innovator in recent times. Take integrated 3G, for instance. While the likes of Dell an Toshiba have announced they’ll be supporting it at some point, Acer simply sign a deal with Vodafone and ship the stuff.

So what we have in the Acer Aspire 5652WLMi is the first notebook we’ve seen with integrated 3G. You’ll need a SIM card and the slot is tucked away inside the battery compartment but once you’ve fitted it, the supplied Dashboard software is easy to use. When you’re in a 3G zone you’ll get decent connection and when you’re out of range, it’ll drop down into GPRS, so you’ll stay connected but things tend to get sluggish and slow.

In the end they give the Acer Aspire 5652WLMi an eight out of ten. Because of its size, it was not all that portable, and since portability is one of the main things people get a laptop fore, they lost some points on this.

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