Sunday, June 2, 2013

Acer's 8-inch Iconia W3 is the first one-handed Windows 8 tablet

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A month ago, an eight-inch Acer tablet running Windows 8 mysteriously showed up on Amazon, only to be removed from the site a few hours later. Well, today Acer is finally making the diminutive Iconia W3 official. The company is confirming that all of the specs listed on Amazon were correct: it weighs 1.10 pounds, measures 0.45 inches thick, features an 8.1-inch 1280 x 800 LCD display, and is powered by an Intel Atom Z2760 Clover Trail CPU. Storage is handled by 32GB and 64GB of flash memory, which is further expandable thanks to the W3's microSD slot. An optional full-sized keyboard can also turn the device into a tiny Windows 8 laptop (sans mouse, although one can be added) that can run all of your classic Windows apps, making it an...


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/2/4388548/acer-8-inch-windows-8-tablet-w3-announcement

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