Acer Iconia

Acer Iconia is a laptop computer tablet takes the physical model of a 14-inch notebook, however eliminates the physical keyboard for the purpose of dual touchscreens.

Operating Windows 7 Home Premium, Acer continues to be working hard strongly with Microsoft on the Acer Iconia tablet. I ought to indicate in early stages that the hardware will probably improve when it is released in US and UK.

What differentiates the Iconia tablet apart is the fact that it utilizes multi touch point systems, making it possible to personalize the commands and actions on the capacitive screens. Two directions are pre-installed on the gadget. Putting one palm on the virtual keyboard raises Acer Ring and positioning two palms at the base screen reveals the full keyboard.

The keyboard has an effective sizing and sensed pretty responsive. It just takes time to be accustomed to a virtual keyboard rather than the real one.

In contrast to Android which operates effectively in the Samsung Galaxy Tab and iOS within the Apple iPad tablet, Windows 7 is not a very natural OS for touch controls. Acer’s got with this in mind and developed idea of Acer Ring, Acer’s skin and also the portal to which you get easy access the primary networking functions.

Acer Ring is a round user interface you move down and up to browse through options including: Touch, Scrapbook, My Journal, Social Networking Sites and My Music. It also identifies if you are left or right handed and tunes appropriately. You may also utilize it to generate your personal touch controls, for instance a circle could start the Web browser.

Social Networks enables you to blend 5 feeds, among them: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube, choosing how frequently these are changed. My Journal essentially allows you to arrange your web shortcuts directly into groups, for example technology, sport, fun and news. These show up as windows which bring up to date information on auto-pilot, therefore one example is you are able to choose the European news segment from cnn.com and it changes auto-magically. Scrapbook is actually a virtual document that allows you to compose notes, slice out components from website pages, by dragging.

Exploring on the Acer Iconia dual screen tablet laptop felt quite smooth, it is possible to elect to view the web pages on both screens together. The Acer Iconia facilitates multitouch, so you're able to pinch and zoom, on the other hand the 1366x768 14-inch screen rapidly evolved into messy with finger prints, even more apparent since it is pretty reflective.

The Iconia offers a Core i5 processor, 4GB Ram memory, 4 USBs and 1 HDMI. Amazingly you cannot find any specific graphics chip. The 3-hour battery and also significant 2.8kg weight implies that it’s far from lightweight.

Acer is setting the Iconia as a life-style item, with additional 10, 7 and 5-inch models and possibly (despite the fact that Acer officially did not verify this yet) on some other operating systems.

Overall, Acer Iconia is a shiny, innovative gadget but needs more time to mature. Battery life and weight are two cons currently which would repel many customers buying it.

By the way, there will be new Acer tablets released into market in 2011 first quarter.