Rear cameras almost always outperform the front-facing kind, yet anyone who has tried using one for a selfie knows the routine: aim, shoot, check, repeat. Acer’s new Sospiro A70 tries to fix that with a small 1.88-inch display mounted next to its camera module, letting you see the frame before you press the shutter.
The idea isn’t new. Meizu put a rear screen on the Pro 7 back in 2017, and Xiaomi tucked a tiny secondary panel beside the cameras on the Mi 11 Ultra. Foldables have since made cover-screen selfies routine. What’s different here is the price bracket, because the A70 is very clearly a budget phone, and rear-screen gimmicks rarely trickle down this far.
That secondary display runs at 240 x 284 pixels, so it’s a framing aid rather than anything you’d watch content on. It sits beside a 64MP main camera, an auxiliary AI sensor and an LED flash, while a 16MP front camera with its own flash handles video calls. Acer leans on AI-assisted photography in its pitch, but nothing in the specifications explains what that software actually does, and image quality remains an open question until someone tests it properly.
The main screen is where the compromises start showing. It’s a 6.67-inch IPS LCD with a 120Hz refresh rate, which should keep scrolling smooth, but its 720 x 1600 resolution is low for a panel this size. Text and fine detail will look softer than on rivals with Full HD+ screens.
Powering it is a Unisoc T8200 octa-core chip clocked up to 2.3GHz, paired with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, expandable via microSD up to 1TB. Acer advertises up to 20GB of memory, though 12GB of that is virtual RAM borrowed from storage and shouldn’t be confused with the real thing. The bigger upgrade is 5G, something the earlier Sospiro A15 lacked.
Elsewhere, the A70 runs Android 16 and keeps a few features pricier phones have dropped, including a 3.5mm headphone jack and FM radio. There’s NFC, Bluetooth 5.2, a side-mounted fingerprint reader, IP64 splash resistance and a 5,000mAh battery with fast charging of unspecified wattage. At around 210 grams, it’s no featherweight. A charger, case and screen protector come in the box.
It’s worth noting that the Acer name here is licensed to Senwa Global International, and the phone has only appeared on Acer’s Latin American mobile site without a price or release date. Until both surface, the rear screen is an interesting hook attached to a phone whose value proposition is still impossible to judge.
