It features a 3.7-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with WVGA resolution, 5-megapixel camera capable with automatic geotagging supported by the integrated Assisted GPS antenna and digital compass.

The device is upgradable and powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1 gigahertz processor and 512 megabytes random access memory.

The Acer Stream runs the Android operating system and integrated third party applications such as Facebook and Twitter social networks, and photo and video sharing abilities through Flickr and YouTube respectively.

"Acer spinlet" is a pre-installed application to browse and listen to songs for free that can be instantly played back on the handset or shared with social networks such as Facebook or Twitter.

[4] "Acer urFooz" is a pre-installed application to create a virtual lookalike to post on social networks The Android 2.2 (FroYo) update was released.