Early last month, ASUS revealed the ZenFone Selfie, a smartphone with an obvious bent towards a particular niche. It wasn’t the first, however, to cater to selfie lovers, with the likes of HTC’s Desire EYE or even the OPPO N1 paving the way with high megapixel front cameras. Now it seems that Acer will be following suite with its own selfie phone. At least that seems to be the case based on this GFXBench sighting of a certain Acer S59 with a 13 megapixel front camera.
This S59, which is most likely not yet its final name, clearly falls in the mid-range smartphone category. Powered by a 1.3 GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6753, RAM is noted to be 2 GB and storage should be around 16 GB. According to the benchmark, the screen is a 5.0-inch 1280×720 HD display. Quite on par for a budget device.
The real kicker, and what could probably drive prices up, are the cameras. On the back, you’ve got a 13 megapixel sensor. On the front, you’ve got a 13 megapixel sensor. No, that wasn’t a typo. Both sides sport the same sensor size. Of course, we’ve learned, or should have, that megapixels are not everything and usually the front camera, due to space or budget constraints, is less talented than the back one.
We’ll have to see this phone in action before we can judge its selfie qualities. Sadly, no news on the rumor mill about this unexpected Acer smartphone. Given how close we are to IFA 2015, though, you can probably expect it to show up there, if not sooner.
