Mumbai: Looks like Windows 8 will soon be gracing displays smaller than 10 inches. Earlier this month, Acer's 8.1-inch tablet running Windows 8 appeared on Amazon, increasing speculation that devices competing with the iPad mini and Nexus 7 will soon be out in various markets.
Of course, that Amazon listing disappeared as soon as it came and then Denis Kutnikov, of Acer Russia said that such a tablet would be announced on June 4th at Computex. However, it looks like Acer could not keep the secret till the event and now the tablet has shown up on the company's own website as the Acer W3.
The Acer W3 features an 8.1-inch WXGA (1280 x 768) display and is powered by an Intel Clover Trail Atom Z2760 processor. In addition to 2GB of RAM, buyers have the option of going for either the 32GB or the 64GB internal storage versions.
A 2-megapixel webcam is included for Skype calls and of course, thanks to the x86 architecture of the chip, this tablet will come with Windows 8 Pro pre-installed, rather than Windows RT. ...
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04:25 PM, Jan 08, 2013
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03:51 PM, Jan 08, 2013
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07:17 PM, Jan 07, 2013
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01:06 PM, Dec 25, 2012
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11:19 AM, Dec 23, 2012
London: Taiwanese computer maker Acer is putting off the launch of tablets using Microsoft's new Windows RT operating system to give itself time to see how Microsoft's own Surface tablet fares. The world's No. 4 PC vendor by shipments initially planned to roll out Windows RT tablets based on ARM chips early next year. However, the launch of Microsoft's tablet last week and the mixed reviews it has drawn has...
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02:10 PM, Oct 08, 2012
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