Acer is expected to make its second quad-core tablet, the Iconia Tab A510, in Europe starting in April for the price of €500. The tablet will follow Acer’s more premium Iconia Tab A700. Though both devices feature a quad-core Tegra 3 processor and a 10.1-inch display, the Iconia Tab A700 ups the resolution to a 1080p [...]
In addition to its hardware announcements, Acer also introduced its cloud service called AcerCloud which will allow PC users, including those of you that also own Android and Windows Phone smartphones, to access their content across devices when on-the-go. The service will be powered by Acer’s Always Connect technology which will allow users to obtain [...]
Today at Acer’s CES 2012 press event, we were able to go hands-on with the company’s upcoming Iconia Tab A200 tablet which will be launching on January 15th for an affordable $329. The tablet will feature Google’s Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating system out of the box but Acer has announced, and confirmed to us again [...]
Just in case you weren’t satisfied with the Acer Iconia Tab A500, Acer’s other 10-inch Android tablet, the company has announced that it will be offering up another 10-inch tablet in the form of the inexpensive Iconia Tab A200 which will be hitting the United States on January 15th and will be doing so with [...]
Computer-makers Acer and Lenovo are targeting the third quarter of this year to launch tablets with Intel’s x86 architecture and Microsoft’s Windows 8 platform, which has been re-designed in face of stiff competition from consumer-centric mobile operating systems delivered by rivals Apple and Google. The Win-tel tablets will mostly be geared at enterprise users, who [...]
It appears that Acer will be giving its 10.1-inch Iconia Tab A500 a big bump in specs with the Iconia Tab A700, seen as a successor to the more budget-friendly A500. The Iconia Tab A700 will not only get a bump to NVIDIA’s quad-core Tegra 3 processor, up from the NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 dual-core CPU, [...]
Despite releasing relatively affordable Android tablets and smartphones on the market, like the Iconia Tab A500, Acer has not so far gained any momentum in the market, leading many to speculate that the company may be exiting the mobile market. However, that isn’t true, company founder Stan Shih fires back, saying that the company isn’t [...]
Talk about honesty: Acer’s CEO J. T. Wang came clean with the company’s new strategy to do away with all of the “cheap, unprofitable products” they’ve been selling in favor of Ultrabooks. Ultrabooks look mysteriously similar to one of the hottest notebook products available today: the MacBook Air. Intel designed the spec to compete with [...]
While the new year may bring with it resolutions of healthier diets and lifestyle, Acer’s recently unveiled Iconia Tab A200 will go the opposite as it is promised a healthy consumption of Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS come January 2012. The budget-friendly tablet eschews cutting edge specs, like NVIDIA’s latest quad-core Tegra 3 [...]
As far as pricing goes, ultrabooks are priced more expensive than today’s $300-$500 netbook, but offers more power and a sleeker, well-made design. However, notebook-manufacturer Acer anticipates that the computing category will see some steep price drops in 2012 and 2013, with the ultimate result being that ultrabooks two years from now will be priced [...]
Acer confirmed a number of rumors today when Jim Wong, President of Acer, confirmed that the company was working on a Quad Core tablet for 2012. The new Acer Quad core tablet will likely fall in line with the Acer Iconia Tab series, and could be shown off as early as CES 2012 in January. [...]
Black Friday is at the end of the week, looming there, tempting you with deals on tablets. However, as a smart consumer you should always be cautious of Black Friday deals. There are Black Friday Tablet deals to be had, but many more duds. It’s worth noting that there aren’t many Black Friday iPad deals [...]
We’re still not quite sure how many people bought a Google Chromebook the first go around but Google is putting some pretty enticing things on the table for the Chromebooks second go-round. Just in time for the holidays, Google has announced that Samsung will be introducing a new black version of the company’s Wi-Fi only [...]
Acer had recently published a profile of the Acer Iconia Tab A700 and A701 variant on its website, detailing some basic specifications for its next-generation Android tablets. It’s unclear at this time if the Iconia Tab duos were leaked on purpose or if it was published by accident, but the specs reveal some interesting tidbits. [...]
Kids love tech and gadgets just as much as adults, and are often quite partial to the same toys their parents bring home. While that’s not always an ideal situation, giving them their own gadgets to play with will satisfy their techie hearts. But don’t hide that iPad or iPhone away just yet, because several [...]
Recently, the Acer Iconia Tab A200 went through approval to get certified by the Bluetooth SIG. Right now, there isn’t much known about the tablet other than the leaked photo. There are several possibilities of how the Iconia Tab A200 will fit into Acer’s Android tablet line-up, which currently includes the A100 7-inch tablet and [...]
Not that we don’t already know Windows can run on AMD processors, but in the interest of fairness, here’s a video from Engadget featuring an Acer Iconia Tab W500 and MSI WindPad 110W running Windows 8 on AMD processors.
The Acer Iconia Tab A501 with AT&T’s 4G HSPA+ will go on sale on September 18th for $480 or $330 with a two-year contract. While the tablet is a 10-inch slate, it will not benefit from the LTE network access that’s being promised by AT&T’s flagship Jetstream tablet from HTC, though the Jetstream commands a [...]
Though Microsoft had been keen to recruit strategic content provider partners when it had debuted its Windows Phone 7 devices nearly a year ago, a missing feature from all the first-generation hardware across all manufacturers is TV output, and in particular HDMI output. Given that Windows Phone 7 can support video recording with minimum camera [...]
Whether you need a monitor to pair up with you ultraportable MacBook Air, dock your Tablet PC or just to regain a desktop experience with whatever notebook you have at hand, we have a deal for you. These monitor deals are perfect for a home office makeover or to add to your back to school shopping [...]
If you’ve been looking to get your hands on any ‘ole 7-inch Honeycomb tablet, today is your lucky day. That’s because Acer has announced that its A100 Iconia Tab Android tablet has arrived on the shores of North America as the first of its kind. Yes, the A100 is the first 7-inch Honeycomb tablet to [...]
Though still un-matched by rivals in their respective spaces, Acer founder Stan Shih is dismissing the Cupertino, California’s success with the iPad tablet and MacBook Air ultraportable computer. Shih says that these fad products are just ‘short-term phenomena,’ and that his company will be coming out with its own products to compete in these respective [...]
It looks like U.S. residents can now own a 7-inch Android Honeycomb tablet with the Acer Iconia Tab A100 recently being offered on sale through retailer SuperBiiz. The 7-inch slate carries an attractive $334 price tag, which is lower than the HTC Sense-enabled Gingerbread HTC Flyer, which retails for $500, but lacks the digitizer screen and [...]
The much delayed Acer Iconia Tab A100 will be launching this August according to retailers. The dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2-powered 7-inch slate will run Android 3.2 Honeycomb, a first for the 7-inch tablet category, along with a price point of $300, which will make the Iconia Tab A100 one of the most full-featured tablet with [...]
Acer has filed an addendum with the FCC for regulatory approval of the Acer Iconia Tab A501, which is a variant of the 10-inch Iconia Tab A500 tablet that was launched earlier. In addition to the 3G/4G HSPA+ tablet now supporting increased storage–it’s been bumped to 64 GB–it seems that Acer is also swapping out [...]
Acer has now given more information about the launch of the delayed 7-inch Iconia Tab A100 Android tablet. The company’s German division told fans on Facebook that the device will be launching in Europe in September, which is a more specific time frame than the second half of 2011 that was promised before. In the [...]
Today at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Redmond rather unexpectedly showed off four Mango powered devices including hardware from Samsung, Fujitsu, Acer and ZTE. The ZTE and Acer handsets both appear to be mid-level devices at the very most and the Fujitsu device’s main draw is going to be its waterproof capabilities. The standout of [...]
The quest for a good Android alternative to the iPad led me to the Acer Iconia Tab A500. The comparable size and lower price tag of $449 made this a compelling option. I really wanted to like it, but despite some compelling traits I cannot recommend it because of frustrating weaknesses. Since Apple is so far ahead [...]
The Acer Iconia Tab A500 Android tablet is being update via an OTA update today across the world in a slow rolling update based on device serial numbers. By the time you read this most should have an update ready. You can check for the Honeycomb update by going to Settings, tapping About and then [...]
Acer may be prepping another tablet by the end of the year, this time with a sliding form factor. The company already has a relatively inexpensive Android slate form factor tablet in the form of the Iconia Tab A500, and a 7-inch version in the form of the Iconia Tab A100 is on the way [...]
The Acer Iconia Tab A500 Android Honeycomb 10.1″ tablet that I am reviewing is easy incredibly easy to root thanks to the Gingerbreak app which can root or unroot the device with the tap of a finger Here are the steps and applications needed to root the Acer Iconia Tab A500. Turn on USB debugging – from [...]
As I test the Acer Iconia Tab A500, I was surprised at how much I liked using the tablet as a camera because of the built-in app and the large screen. While the quality of the images is less than stellar, the experience of taking pictures on a large screen is surprisingly good. If Acer [...]
I just got ahold of an Acer Iconia Tab A500 tablet running Android’s Honeycomb 3.0 operating system. If you already own an Android smartphone, want a tablet that supports external storage, doesn’t need a dongle to connect to a HDTV or perhaps just like the open nature of the Android marketplace; the Acer Iconia Tab A500 is worth [...]
The Acer Iconia Tab W500 is an affordable Windows tablet that brings back memories of Tablet PCs of yesteryear. At just $549, this Windows tablet is in the same price range as its iOS and Android counterparts. Rob Bushway, the co-founder of GottaBeMobile, got his hands on an Acer Iconia TabW500 and posted a review [...]
The Acer Iconia Tab A100, which was reported earlier as being delayed, has been seen passing through the FCC for regulatory approval with a WiFi radio. The device features a 7-inch 1024 X 600 resolution, which was speculated as the reason behind its original delay as it was noted that some Honeycomb apps built for [...]
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