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Acer Iconia W700 Tablet Reviews and Specifications

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Posted by Unknown Monday, July 22, 2013 0 comments

What is the Acer Iconia W700 Tablet?

Acer Iconia W700 Tablet Reviews and Specifications. The Acer Iconia W700 is not a rival for the iPad 4 or Google Nexus 7. Instead, this meaty 11.6-inch Windows 8 tablet wants to be your tablet, laptop and possibly even desktop replacement in one. To this aim, it comes with a desktop cradle and Bluetooth keyboard that makes it an alternative to the Microsoft Surface Pro. Combined with an 1.4GHz Intel Core i3 processor, 64GB SSD storage and 4GB of RAM it sounds promising on paper, but can it deliver on such lofty ambitions?

Acer Iconia W700 Tablet Reviews - Design & Build Quality

Acer Iconia W700 Tablet Reviews and Specifications. There's no avoiding it: as a tablet the Acer Iconia W700 design feels big and a tad clumsy. At 11.1mm thick it's actually a shade slimmer than the Microsoft Surface Pro, but at 950g it's 40g heavier and its 11.6-inch screen - an inch larger than the Surface - makes it feel excessively large and uncomfortable in the hand.

As a case in point, while typing on the on-screen keyboard in landscape is fine, in portrait the W700 is just too heavy for comfort. Given its focus this much is to be expected, but anyone hoping for an iPad-like experience with Windows 8 features will be disappointed.

So it's large for a tablet, but the build quality is top-notch. The Acer Iconia W700's aluminium unibody shell is reassuringly robust - it safely survived a couple of considerable accidental bashes during our time with it, which bodes well for heavy users. It looks and feels like a quality product.

It's a shame, in one respect, that this sleek exterior is cluttered by all manner of physical controls and connection ports. But the full-size USB port is useful for quickly sharing and viewing documents, and it has most of the controls and connections you need, including a headphone jack. The only slightly puzzling omission is a memory card slot, something that's present on the Surface Pro.

There's no option for built-in 3G/4G, either, though the USB port could conceivably be used with a dongle in an emergency.

Acer Iconia W700 Tablet Reviews - Accessories

The Acer Iconia W700 build quality is very good, but we can't say the same of the accessories. The Bluetooth keyboard that partners the Acer Iconia W700 tablet is easy on the eye, but it feels cheap and nasty. It does nothing to reassure you it'll survive a few months of heavy use.

But it's a masterpiece of engineering compared to the desktop dock. It's a cheap, plastic mess. It doesn't complement the W700's sleek exterior at all, and while it's meant for desk use it's worth bearing in mind the two combined are only marginally more portable than a laptop.

While the Acer Iconia W700's price is tempting, it's easy to see where Acer has saved money here.

Acer Iconia W700 Tablet Reviews - Screen

Acer Iconia W700 Tablet Reviews and Specifications. Where Acer has saved money on the accessories it's spent it on the screen, as the Acer Iconia W700 screen is fantastic. It stops short of 'retina' quality, but its Full HD, 1,920 x 1,080 resolution makes the likes of the iPad mini look like a blurry mess. It's considerably better than any you'll find on a similar price laptop, such as the Samsung Series 5 NP540U3C touchscreen ultrabook, too.

Whether you're viewing HD videos, photos or simply browsing the web, its strong, vibrant colours and deep blacks lift it above the likes the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2. It's very responsive and accurate to touch, too, with all scrolls between menus and homescreens coming without any fuss, fanfare or unwanted stuttering.

And while the Acer Iconia W700's screen makes it bulky, it also makes web pages or viewing Word documents a joy. Text is sharp and detailed, while in portrait mode you can see and read far more in a single go.
It's comfortably the Acer Iconia W700's best feature.

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Acer Aspire P3 Tablet Reviews and Specifications

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Posted by Unknown Sunday, July 21, 2013 0 comments

Acer Aspire P3 Tablet Reviews - Introduction

Acer Aspire P3 Tablet Reviews and Specifications. How many devices do we really need? A tablet, a laptop, a phone and a desktop PC? Gadgets like the Acer Aspire P3 want to reduce the amount of tech clutter in our lives. It’s a 11.6-inch Ultrabook-style laptop running Windows 8, and its screen part pops out to become a tablet.

The best bit is that the Acer Aspire P3 starts at £599 – which sounds cheap for an Ultrabook.
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Acer Aspire P3 Tablet Reviews – Design

Acer Aspire P3 Tablet Reviews and Specifications. The hybrid tablet-laptop is one of the hottest tech trends of the moment, and the Acer Aspire P3 weds this style of device to 2011’s favourite technology buzzword – the Ultrabook. Acer claims that this device offers the best bits of a tablet and Ultrabook, but costs a good deal less than most of the Ultrabooks of old. Acer Aspire P3 4

It’s a shade under 20mm thick and 1.39kg total, giving it Ultrabook-like dimensions. However, a key component of the success of any convertible is how its keyboard docks. And the Acer Aspire P3 doesn’t quite make an entirely convincing laptop replacement. Acer Aspire P3 2

Its keyboard cover is just that – it doesn’t have a laptop-like hinge, but a less secure system that uses a faux-leather-topped semi-rigid fabric flap, while the tablet part slots into a groove in the keyboard base. It’s a Bluetooth keyboard case, essentially.

Acer’s referring to it as an Ultrabook shows quite how far the term has become confused since 2011. Its bodywork is very similar to the chunky Acer Iconia W700, reducing some of the excitement potential of something that claims to be brand new – as the first convertible Ultrabook.

The screen part pops out of the keyboard base entirely too, further removing the Aspire P3 from what we think of as an Ultrabook laptop. Acer Aspire P3 9

Its keyboard base uses a traditional chiclet key style, and sacrifices a numerical pad in order to offer full-size keys for comfy typing. The key action is roughly comparable to one of Acer’s slimmest laptops – shallow but reasonably crisp.

As the keyboard talks to the tablet part over Bluetooth, you’ll find the Aspire P3’s connections on the tablet. There’s a full-size USB port and HDMI video output. There’s no memory card slot here. Acer Aspire P3 10

However, as this is a “proper” PC, internal storage is decent. The Acer Aspire P3 has either a 60GB or 120GB hard drive, and there’s either 2GB or 4GB of RAM on-board - low-end specs for a laptop, however.

It uses Intel Core i3 and i5 processors, which are central to the device’s claim to the Ultrabook term. If you don’t use Intel Core i3/i5/i7 chips, you can’t call yourself an Ultrabook. The 5,280mAh battery will last for seven hours according to Acer.

Acer Aspire P3 Tablet Reviews – Screen

Acer Aspire P3 Tablet Reviews and Specifications. Large for a tablet, small for a laptop, the Acer Aspire P3 has an 11.6-inch IPS touchscreen display. It’s not a full HD display, though, but 1,366 x 768 pixels.

When used as a tablet in particular, the relatively low pixel density of the screen becomes clear. The pixellation of text is pretty obvious and it makes images look artificial. Acer Aspire P3 5

However, the display is otherwise good with respectable colour reproduction and the usual strong viewing angles you get with an IPS panel.

Acer Aspire P3 Tablet Reviews - Impressions

Acer Aspire P3 Tablet Reviews and Specifications. Although it may technically be able to call itself an Ultrabook, calling the Acer Aspire P3 such a thing feels like a misrepresentation of sorts. It’s best thought-of as a convertible Windows 8 tablet. Ladling superlatives upon it may not do it any favours in the long run for what is essentially just a more powerful than average Windows tablet.

Acer Iconia A1 Tablet Reviews and Specification

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Posted by Unknown Saturday, July 13, 2013 1 comment

What is the Acer Iconia A1?

Acer Iconia A1 Tablet Reviews and Specification. The Acer Iconia A1 is an Android tablet that wants to offer a cut-price alternative to the iPad mini, and a larger-screen alternative to the Nexus 7. It has a 7.9-inch screen, quad-core processor, expandable memory and even a video output – all for £150.
Yes, it may suffer from most of the niggles we see in other top budget tablets, but this is an impressive effort that deserves attention if you love the iPad mini’s size but not its price. And it’s much better than Acer’s other budget tablets.
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Acer Iconia A1 Tablet Reviews – Design and Build

Acer Iconia A1 Tablet Reviews and Specification. Acer has a history of producing well-priced laptops and tablets that offer good value in the spec-per-pound equation, but not always impressive build. However, the Acer Iconia A1 tries pretty hard to up Acer’s game.
There’s nothing fancy about the Iconia A1’s construction. It has a hard white plastic back and silver plastic sides, but feels solid in a manner that can stand up to the Google Nexus 7. There are no worrying creaks and it doesn’t feel as though the thing might fall apart any minute.
It feels better-made than the Iconia B1 tablet, which we got to grips with earlier this year.
The Acer Iconia A1 is, however, a good deal chunkier and heavier than the iPad mini – which it emulates to an extent. It is 10.5mm thick and 400g in weight.
That extra thickness is no problem at all, but the weight makes it that bit less comfortable to use one-handed than either a Nexus 7 or iPad mini. Maybe it’s down to our weedy forearms, but we did find it tiring after a while – two-handed is best.
What is just as important as weight in the Acer Iconia A1, though, is the aspect ratio. With a 4:3 aspect screen, the A1 isn’t as elongated – relatively speaking – as other Android tablets, which generally have widescreen displays.
This shape of screen is the perfect fit for a tablet this size, seeming to offer a much larger screen than a 7-inch widescreen tablet without a dramatic loss of portability. Apple was smart with its design of the 7.9-inch, 4:3 aspect iPad mini, in other words.
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Acer Iconia A1 Tablet Reviews – Connectivity

Acer Iconia A1 Tablet Reviews and Specification. Although it’s hard not to compare the Iconia A1 with the iPad mini given they’re aiming at the same design goal, other aspects of the tablet’s hardware are 100 per cent Acer.
Look at its edges and you’ll see design follows function. On the right edge there’s a microSD memory card slot and a microHDMI video output. These, and the pinhole mic that sits between them, are clearly labelled in style-less, guile-less fashion.
The Acer Iconia A1’s intentions are in the right place, but it won’t be winning any awards for its looks.
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These connections do make the tablet much more flexible – the 16GB of internal memory is enough for a healthy bundle of app installs, but won’t go far if you start dumping video onto the tablet.
Another big win for the Acer Iconia A1 is its inclusion of GPS. Download an app with offline maps and you can use it as a GPS system. NFC is left out, and there’s currently no 3G version available, but one may be released later this year.

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Acer Iconia W3 Tablet Reviews and Specification

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What is the Acer Iconia W3?

Acer Iconia W3 Tablet Reviews and Specification. The first portrait-aspect Windows 8 tablet is here. The Acer Iconia W3 is an 8.1-inch Windows tablet that costs significantly less than the Microsoft Surface RT at £279. However, there are a few compromises involved with this little tab.

Acer Iconia W3 Tablet Reviews - Design

Acer Iconia W3 Tablet Reviews and Specification. Like most of Acer's tablets, the Acer Iconia W3's casing is plastic. Its edges are white and its back a plate of silver - silver plastic that is.
It doesn't feel tremendously strong or expensive, but it does have a much more one hand-friendly form than any other Windows 8 tablet to date. It's also the first we've used to be based around a portrait design - as the mandatory Windows home button sits on one of the narrower sides, at the other end of the bezel to the front-facing camera.
To simplify matters in dumbing-down fashion, the Acer Iconia W3 is currently the closest thing Windows has to an iPad mini alternative. However, it is significantly heavier and thicker at around 11m and 540g.
Stylistically, it's no competition despite selling at roughly the same price as the iPad mini. It's far less elegant, with more seams, more sockets and much less clear design aspirations - beyond being relatively small in its Windows clan.
Along its edges you'll find a microHDMI video output, a microUSB slot, a microSD card slot, headphone jack and two pretty clear speaker outputs that sit on the bottom edge. Many of you may rejoice at this selection, but it demonstrates that the Acer Iconia W3 values connectivity over style. And perhaps connectivity is not aquite a replacement for 'substance' in the old 'style vs substance' adage.

Note the 'filled-in' SIM slot. Sm-ooth.

Acer Iconia W3 Tablet Reviews - Screen

Acer Iconia W3 Tablet Reviews and Specification. The one reason why the Acer Iconia W3 manages to stay much smaller than the Window tablet competition is because of its screen. The smallest WIndows tablet we've seen to date had a 10.1-inch screen; the Acer Iconia W3 has an 8-inch screen.
We welcome smaller tablets, but it's also where we find some of the Iconia W3's most serious problems.

The W3 has a widescreen 1,280 x 800 pixel display, similar in aspect to Android tablets like the (slightly smaller) Nexus 7. Sharpness is a little limited, but it's the panel type used that's the problem here.
The Acer Iconia W3 appears to use a TN panel, which offers poor viewing angles compared with the IPS displays found in most tablets these days. There's fairly significant contrast shift when the tablet is turned in certain directions, and that's disappointing when almost all other tablets at the price have higher-quality screens.

Acer Iconia W3 Tablet Reviews -Specs

This tablet's core specs are fairly basic, too. The Acer Iconia W3 has a dual-core Atom Z2760 processor clocked at 1.5GHz rather than the Core i-series type found in much pricier Windows 8 tablets, and 2GB of RAM.

We did notice some obvious lag when flicking about the interface, but there is one serious software win to the Iconia W3 - it uses full Windows 8 rather than the RT version. It may not have the power to run every Windows app under the sun, but at least you'll be able to try. WIndows 8 RT can't install any old application.
Using a low-power Atom processor and 6,800mAh battery, the Iconia W3's battery life should be reasonably solid. Acer claims eight hours, which it's only likely to achieve with light tasks.
You get 32GB of internal memory, a significant chunk of which will be taken up by the Windows installation. It's easy to bulk that up with a microSD memory card, though.
Acer has produced a bespoke dock that gives you a full-size keyboard, turning the Iconia W3 into to a little typing monster. We didn't get to try this first-hand, however.

Acer Iconia W3 Tablet Reviews - First Impressions

The Acer Iconia W3 is one of the most interesting Windows 8 tablets in a long while. However, its issues don't quite make it the stand-out lower-cost choice for Windows 8 that the Nokia Lumia 620 was for Windows Phone 8.