Acer takes on iPad with Android, Flash, own UI Acer has taken the wraps off a family of Android tablets running from a 4.8-incher through to a 10.1in model. And there's a Windows 7 model coming too. All due in April 2011 - Acer is awaiting the next major Android release, Honeycomb, presumably - they'll actually sporty an Acer-made UI rather than the Android standard. The …
...actually looks kinda cool. I like the approach... make a portable dock/laptop-keyboard. I've always found the whole idea of Win7 tablets completely ridiculous up until now.
I'm curious what AMD chips they're talking... could it be one of the new Bobcat fusion chips (Zacate?)?
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...............Android or Win 7 - though that depends on whether or not Acer has done/can do something to improve Win 7 at UI level in the context of touch screens - although if its coming with a slide-out (?) physical keyboard Acer may be coppering their bets! Great that they have WiFi. I suspect that for those for whom the touch screen is alpha and omega of such a choice then the 10" with Honeycomb should be a real winner. One question - USB? Oh and of course, how soon will we find out how much!
The 10-incher. It was very nice, even for an engineering sample.
@M1 - yes there is a front faing camera (and a rear-facing one)
@Arctic Fox et al - the 10 was definitely Android.
The AMD chips that I heard bandied about were the Nvidia Tigra (from memory).
The whole thing was very well built and the screen was up there with the iPad. It's looking very compelling, especially with the front facing camera and true multitasking.
The Acer man did say (and I did not see this item) that the docking station it can sit in will project a keyboard on to a flat surface. That will be very cool if it is true.
I like the iPad but this was more like what the pad should have been from day 1.
I re-read my opening line and can see that is was ambiguous. What I meant was that for the 10" it would for me be an interesting choice between Android (as my phone is) and Win 7 (as our home systems are) dependent upon to what degree the touch screen on the Win 7 version was reasonable and whether the presence of a physical keyboard was a genuine plus contra the version equipped with the very latest Android. I am definitely going to have to have a good look at both - first time that I have been really interested in a "fondle slab"! Does it have USB ports and SSD expansion BTW?
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So the front-facing camera is only 2Mp while the user one is 8Mp ? That sounds like the wrong way around - surely you'd want the front-facing camera to be the highest resolution for taking pictures, while the lower res. one would be facing back towards the user. Perhaps they messed up the press-release?
With near custom devices as pads are, very important factors will be hardware support and honouring the warranty.
Acer's historical record hasn't been, in my experience, exactly valiant in these respects. For example, when a rubber foot fell off one of their better computers, the purchase of a case was required to effect repairs. Real wastage of material and money.
All I want is a tablet to read my Marvel Digital Comic sub on. 10" screen, 1280x800 res and Flash 10 support...
Is there anything else out that has that combination? With any luck, by the time these are release there will be a few more tablets with these capabilities to choose from. If not, I'll be getting one of these...
I'm thinking of buying a device like this soon but I just haven't seen the killer model yet. The tech I'm really waiting for is a fold-up screen.
I want a fold-up gadget almost twice the size of a Nintendo DS with a similar hard shell that can be used as a phone. But once opended you see a full screen with some kind of no-join tech for e-reading, web browsing etc.. hopefully running Android.
Give me that and I'll part with my hard-earned but until then it's all just gadget porn to me.
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