{"id":1086876,"date":"2026-07-13T16:23:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1086876\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:23:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:23:18","slug":"acers-first-new-phone-in-years-has-a-screen-on-the-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1086876\/","title":{"rendered":"Acer\u2019s First New Phone in Years Has a Screen on the Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Acer has largely stepped away from the smartphone industry in recent years; the company\u2019s heavily focused on tablets<\/a>, laptops, handheld gaming<\/a>, and sometimes smart glasses<\/a> these days. But today the company announced the Sospiro A15<\/a>, a midrange smartphone with a rare rear display.<\/p>\n

The Sospiro A15\u2014which is, for now, limited to the Latin American market\u2014puts its secondary display directly next to the phone\u2019s rear camera array. It\u2019s small, at 1.88 inches, with a resolution of 240 x 284. The rear display has relatively limited functionality; you\u2019re not meant to be navigating your phone with it. Rather, it\u2019s more for showing notifications, music controls, and a viewfinder for the rear camera.<\/p>\n

This is very much a midrange phone, with a 6.67-inch HD IPS display and an entry-level Unisoc T615 chip (this thing doesn\u2019t even have 5G!). It\u2019s got just 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, though you can expand this with a microSD up to 1TB. The battery comes in at 5,000mAh and can be charged at up to 18W via USB-C. The cameras are powerful enough for a phone at this level; the front camera is 16 megapixels and the rear is 64 megapixels. The Sospiro A15 is IP64 dust and water resistant, runs Android 16, has a fingerprint reader, and there\u2019s even a 3.5mm headphone jack, if you\u2019re into that sort of thing. Pricing for the phone has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n

\"Acer\u00a9 Acer <\/p>\n

It\u2019s really that rear display that could be a major selling point for the Sospiro A15. The modern smartphone is relatively rote at this point, with major manufacturers like Samsung and Apple generally choosing to stick to the status quo rather than throw in a random fun feature like a rear display. Samsung\u2019s new Galaxy A27<\/a>, for example, shares many of the same specs as the Sospiro A15 but is otherwise very, very standard in terms of its design.<\/p>\n

This certainly isn\u2019t the first time we\u2019ve seen a rear display on a smartphone (the Xiaomi 17 Pro Max<\/a> has a nice one), but it\u2019s nice to see that innovation trickling down from more premium phones. Of course, this one\u2019s not available in the U.S. just yet\u2014so we\u2019ll have to stick with our boring budget options for the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Acer has largely stepped away from the smartphone industry in recent years; the company\u2019s heavily focused on tablets,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1086877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3159],"tags":[697,2061,547,3649,53,16,15],"class_list":["post-1086876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-acer","tag-android","tag-mobile","tag-smartphones","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116913597916087242","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1086877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}