Tag archive: Acer

In preparation for Mobile World Congress at the end of next month, the organizing body – the GSMA – has announced the 2012 shortlist of nominees for their prestigious Global Mobile Awards. That's right, it's not just those in with a chance of an Oscar nod on tenterhooks today. What makes the GSMA's awards worthy of attention is that they're voted on by 170 independent industry players — from chief… Read More

The battle over which data cable standard will dominate in the years ahead is beginning to heat up. With USB 3.0 beginning to take off, the fate of Intel's high-speed Thunderbolt port has been under scrutiny as of late. Everything runs on USB and though Apple has been a huge proponent of the new Thunderbolt port, including it as one of the only ports on its entire line of MacBook computers, support from the world's most popular tech… Read More

This year's Consumer Electronics Show is over. It may be the biggest show of the year, but when it came to smartphones and tablets, most companies seemed to be holding back, perhaps waiting for the Mobile World Congress show in February or CTIA this spring. Whatever the reason, this year's showing was a bit weak. Still, there were a few notable devices. Most of these tablets are predictable upgrades, but there are a couple nice… Read More

Computer maker Acer is upping its Android tablet game, today announcing its new Acer Iconia A200 Android tablet. The Iconia A200 builds on the 7-inch Iconia A100, jumping out to a 10.1-inch 1280 by 800-pixel touchscreen display and keeping the 1 GHz dual-core Nvidia Tegra processor and 1 GB of memory. And while the Iconia A200 will launch this month with Android 3.2 Honeycomb, Acer says it'll be upgradable to Android 4.0 Ice Cream… Read More

Windows 8 will hit shelves sometime in the latter half of 2012 and manufacturers already seem to be excited. Both Acer and Lenovo are rumored to launch Intel-based Windows 8 tablets in the third quarter of 2012, reports DigiTimes. Both companies will supposedly use a new Intel mobile processor codenamed “Clover Trail” that's been designed specifically for Android-based smartphones and tablets. Since these tablets will run on… Read More

Like most PC companies, Acer has not had an easy time entering the tablet market Apple created, but it will not give up. According to DigiTimes, the company's founder, Stan Shih, said that the company has no plans to abandon the fledgling market. Acer's low sales are an “unavoidable part of the process,” and are similar to the difficulties it had entering the laptop market some years back, he said.  This comes as… Read More

Despite talk from Acer earlier this month saying it would be focusing less on low-end products and more on high-end super-thin Ultrabooks in 2012, a report from DigiTimes on Wednesday suggested the company is set to launch a dirt cheap 15-inch Ultrabook. DigiTimes says that according to sources in the Taiwan-based supply chain, Acer will sell the new product for just $699, though specifications were unavailable. Indeed, Acer itself has thus far… Read More

  They once roamed coffee shops and college lecture halls, now it looks like the netbook is heading to that scrap heap of old, unwanted technology—at least that's what Dell thinks. The company has decided at the end of 2011, that it won't be making any more netbooks. The folks at the mydellmini.com forums first noticed Dell quietly pulling the small and inexpensive notebooks from the online store. Try it yourself, a search for… Read More

The days of Acer being a low-end brand are coming to an end, according to the company's chief executive, J.T. Wang, reports AllThingsD. Instead, the computer-maker is going to focus on producing ultrabooks, the super-thin laptops that mimic the design and portability of Apple's increasingly popular MacBook Air line. The move comes after Acer suffered through two consecutive quarters of net losses. “We will shift our strategy… Read More

Computer maker Acer is rolling out two new all-in-one touchscreen desktop systems just in time for the holiday season, with an eye towards bringing HD media, entertainment, social media, and even some honest-to-goodness computing into family-friendly areas of the home. The Intel-based AZ5 series sport 23-inch HD displays, while the AZ3 series sport 21-inch displays for fitting into smaller areas, along with AMD processors and ATI Radeon… Read More

Ultrabooks are only just going on sale here in the United States, but it looks like sales in Taiwan are already disappointing Asus and Acer. DigiTimes reports that the two companies now expect to ship 100,000 Ultrabooks by the end of 2011, far short of their target of 200,000-300,00 units. A big problem is that they're unable to price the notebooks lower than Apple's MacBook Air. The Asus 11.6-inch Ultrabook costs about $1,205… Read More