On Monday, one of Acer’s managers announced that the company is preparing to launch two or three tablets in the first half of this year. Acer’s long-term goal is to phase out netbooks and replace them with a line of tablet computers, at least one of which will have a seven-inch screen.
Lu Bing-Hsian, a Taiwan sales manager, said that the tablets will run Android OS although he neglected to say which version—on. The screen sizes will top out at ten inches. Lu also claims the tablets will take it to another level and will and will use a quad-core architecture, which Lu says will make them run faster than laptops running Windows.
More cores will certainly make for better multitasking, a coveted feature on tablets, but we can’t imagine this will do much for their battery life. Still, it will be a distinguishing feature for Acer devices among the glut of tablets arriving on the market this year.
Acer’s last tablet effort was little more than a trip and fall—a 12-inch version priced at under $1,000 that sold less than 300 units a month before being pulled in July. The company’s president indicated that this wouldn’t be the last we’d see of Acer in the tablet market, though the company made no indication of its interests at the tablet-fest that was CES two weeks ago.
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