At a recent Acer press event in Beijing Acer has unveiled a new Android-based tablet that looks two parts iPad and one part Kindle.
With a seven inch screen and rather recognisable large black bezel, the new device will be running Android with a specially-created overlay.
The new tablet is apparently designed for many of the same things as the iPad, namely books, music, internet and email.
Well, maybe it's sort of the same...
Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci said the new tablet device, which also sports a full QWERTY keyboard, will be coming around Q4, which he admitted means 'probably September or October'... despite the latter being in Q3.
While admitting that the new and unnamed tablet device does bear a resemblance to Apple's iPad, Lanci hinted that he thought the iPad's screen was too big.
"We are not convinced that 10 inches is the right size for this type of device," he told APC.
"It becomes too close to a netbook in size, and why should it not be a netbook with full PC capability?"
Via APC
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bradavon
May 28th 2010
3. I would too but you tend to read books vertically, then again you don't need the keyboard when reading. Slide out would make it thicker though.
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resis
May 28th 2010
2. Now this is going in the right direction to rival the iPad. However, I'd prefer a slide-out keyboard along the longer side of the rectangle, please Acer!
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bradavon
May 28th 2010
1. This looks interesting. A tablet with Android and Qwerty keyboard would be right up my street. I'm really not sold on soft keyboards. The size looks good too. Hopefully battery life isn't a problem.
Any word if this will have 3G and Wireless support? And how much storage?
"It becomes too close to a netbook in size, and why should it not be a netbook with full PC capability?"
Agreed but boy they've shot up in price. The point of a netbook is it's "cheap" but they're now close to laptop prices and you think "why not just pay the extra" for a laptop. At £200 a netbook is a great idea but at £350 (which they all are in my local Comet), there's not much point in them any more.
Personally I'd pay the extra and get a full powered 13.3" laptop. My brother's just bought a Dell laptop and it's so small and light it's ridiculous. Battery life is good at 3-4 hours too, which admittedly isn't the 10 hours of the iPad. It's as portable as a netbook/tablet but much more powerful.
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