Acer's rival to the MacBook Air may launch as early as September. According to a report from Digitimes, the Taiwanese manufacturer hopes to launch its ultrabook early to compete against ASUS. Both companies are expected to release ultrabooks in the coming months, which will include Acer's Aspire 3951 and the ASUS UX21.
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Acer Ultrabook now aiming for September launch
HP TouchPad Lasted 49 Days, Microsoft Kin Lasted 48, IBM Did it Best
Let me see how simple I can make this because there are just a few facts that you should know, probably the most important facts of the day if you don’t count most of the other facts from the HP/webOS situation everyone was freaking out about earlier today. Head to that link for most the details, then come back and remember this bit: HP is weighing spinning off its PC unit. This basically means that HP is looking to do SOMETHING with its PC unit, also known as HP’s PSG, or Personal Systems Group, this sect of HP responsible for PCs, hand-held PCs such as mobile devices, software for the home, and more. SOMETHING means either a complete selling off of the PSG portion of the company or “spinning it off” meaning it would still sort of be part of the company, but it’d be like Beavis and Butthead’s Daria or Happy Days’ Mork and Mindy or Laverne and Shirley – separate but in the same universe.
Apple takes top spot for mobile PC vendor with 21.1 percent share
According to a new report from DisplaySearch, Apple has taken the top spot in worldwide mobile PC shipments in the second quarter of 2011. The company shipped 13.6 million units of mobile PCs, which includes both notebooks and tablets. This amount puts it in the lead ahead of second place HP by 3.9 million units.
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Occasional Gamer Dev app stats out two unknown Windows Phone devices
Geeks that run their own websites know that most of the metrics packages out there that operate on servers to track your visitor data. Metrics software can also grab the device name of the connected gadgets that have a developers games installed. Occasional Gamer Dev Elbert Perez has a stats page that grabs the device ID of the Windows Phone devices that are running his game apps.
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Iconia Tab A100 Review
It is true that Acer only a few months ago brought us one of the first round of Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets In the Iconia Tab A500, a 10-inch tablet with a thin metal backing attached to one of the cheapest prices on the market. What we’ve got now is only the second 7-inch tablet on the market and the first one to carry any version of Honeycomb. Furthermore, this A100 7-inch Acer tablet is the world’s first Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet, 3.2 being the first tablet-oriented Google mobile OS made for tablets of under 10 inches in size. This tablet is not meant to be the thinnest tablet on the market, and neither this nor the original Samsung Galaxy Tab 7-inch tablet are likely to be winning the tablet fashion show, but what we DO have here is a nice little “tween” sized Android device toting NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 dual-core processor – will it carve its own piece out of the tablet market pie due to it’s relatively unique nature?
SlashGear Weekly Roundup Video – August 14, 2011
This past week brought more patent litigation drama along with new rumors for the exciting gadgets to come in the next few months. Sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 have been blocked in Europe after Apple won a preliminary injunction on the tablet. Apple became the world’s largest company briefly when its market valuation surpassed that of Exxon Mobile. Windows Phone Mango is now rumored for a September 1 launch with Nokia confirming closure of its US Symbian and feature phone operations. The first screenshots of Android Ice Cream Sandwich leaked with its roll-out likely in November. And there’s much much more. Continue after the cut for the full video and roundup list.
Iconia Tab A100 Unboxing and hands-on [video]
The 7-inch form factor may have opened up the Android tablet market, with Samsung’s Galaxy Tab paving the way even before Google believed the platform was ready for slates, but since then all has been quiet on the tweener front. Honeycomb’s unsuitability for medium-sized screens left several companies with their tablets on the back-burner; those that did launch, like HTC with the Flyer, stuck to smartphone versions of Android rather than risk poor compatibility. Now, bringing Android 3.2 Honeycomb to market comes the Acer Iconia Tab A100, a 7-inch dual-core model promising the performance of its bigger siblings but the pocket-friendliness of a filofax.
Acer Iconia Tab A100 on sale now
Acer’s Iconia Tab A100 has finally gone on sale in the US, making it the first Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet with a 7-inch screen to hit shelves. Priced from $329.99, the A100 runs on NVIDIA’s dual-core 1GHz Tegra 2 processor and has a 1024 x 600 16:10 touchscreen, 5-megapixel rear camera with autofocus and an LED flash, and a front-facing 2-megapixel camera for video calls. There’s also WiFi a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and MicroHDMI.
Windows Phone 7 Mango Coming September 1
Microsoft's major update to Windows Phone 7, codenamed Mango, may be rolling out much sooner than we expected. Fall was the time frame given by Microsoft and along the way evidence has cropped up suggesting an arrival sometime in September. But now, new reports from insider sources claim that the update will be released starting September 1.
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Acer Iconia Smart Drops in September
It's time for a strange device, ladies and gentlemen, and we've got just the device for you. This is the Acer Iconia Smart, an Android device running version 2.3.x Gingerbread, having a monstrously long display, and rolling out with a single-core 1GHz Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm. This device's 4.8-inch 21:9 aspect ration display is certainly one of its more unique and stand-out features, will the rest of its very possibly out-dated hardware be able to compete with the new wave of devices that's been released since it's original announcement?
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Acer Aspire 3951 Ultrabook leaks
Images of Acer’s MacBook Air rival, the Acer Aspire 3951, have leaked, previewing the company’s upcoming ultrabook. The shots, caught on Vietnamese site Sohoa, show a slimline 13.3-inch ultraportable that’s expected to weigh 1.4kg and be roughly 13mm thick, powered by a Sandy Bridge Intel Core processor.
Acer founder: Tablets are fads, Post-PC is misguided
Acer's founder has described both tablets and Ultrabooks as short-term "fads" and scolded PC manufacturers to look to Apple's "outside-the-box thinking" with the iPad; however, the outspoken ex-exec is also unconvinced by Steve Jobs' insistence that we now live in a "post-PC" world. Stan Shih, who founded what we now know as Acer in 1976, argued that - in contrast to Apple's marginalization of the computer - PCs remain the basis of the IT industry.
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