Saturday, February 26, 2011

ACER INTRODUCES 2 aNDROID AND 1 WINDOWS TABLET AT MWC

At the ongoing Mobile World Congress, Acer has three tablets on display. Two of these machines - the Acer Iconia Tab A500 which was on display at CES as well and the 7 inch Iconia Tab A100 - run Google Android. There is also a 10 inch Windows tablet called the Iconia Tab W500.


The Android models have a 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor. While the 7 inch A100 has 512MB of RAM and 8GB of storage, the 10 inch A500 has 1GB of RAM and 16GB / 32GB of storage. Both run Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system. Both tablets are due out in April.

The Iconia Tab W500 has a 10.1 inch multitouch display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. It is powered by a dual core C-50 AMD Ontario processor and Radeon HD 6250 graphics. It runs Windows 7 and can be configured with up to 2GB of RAM and up to 32GB of storage.

The W500 will reportedly also have a full sized keyboard docking station, although it is not clear whether the dock is standard or optional.

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