U.S. Marines Eye Acer Iconia A100 For In-Flight Use On Helicopters

Tablets are infiltrating every part of our lives, it seems. They’re taking to the skies on commercial airlines, replacing textbooks, flight manuals, and also seeing some use by various branches of the military. The U.S. Marines are also looking to allow the use of at least one tablet on a number of helicopter platforms. According [...]

CES 2012: Acer Unveils Quad Core Iconia Tab A700, A510

Quad core is the latest and greatest in mobile tech, and no one wants to get left behind. Acer’s latest tab offerings follow up the rather successful dual core A500 tablet from just under one year ago. The two new tabs are both 10″ devices, and feature the new Tegra 3 CPUs from NVIDIA. They’re [...]

Quad Core Tablets Coming From Lenovo, Acer, HTC

The next generation of mobile devices carrying NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 quad core processor are starting to take their share of the news cycle these days.  With the Transformer Prime debuting as the world’s first quad core tablet, other companies are hopping on the bandwagon to compete for your cash with their own offerings.  3 big [...]

GameStop To Sell Tablets From Samsung, ASUS, Acer

A while back the popular video game retailer, GameStop, announced that they were looking at the possibility of getting into the tablet retail business.  Rumors at the time were that GameStop might even manufacture their own tablet PC to compete with the iPad and other Android alternatives.  As the tablet wars have played out this [...]

Update: Acer Iconia A500 Tablet Receives Android 3.2 Update Ahead of Schedule

See the final update at the bottom of the page for the newest information! Acer’s 10.1-inch Iconia A500 tablet is joining the ranks of others like the Xoom and Asus Eee Pad Transformer, updating to the latest version of Android Honeycomb, 3.2.  We were hearing that this update would not be available until August 25th, [...]

7-inch Acer Iconia Tab A100 Officially Announced

After being stalled in production for a couple of months, Acer has just launched the official page for the new Acer Iconia Tab A100, the 7-inch follow up to the A500.  Just like it’s bigger brother, the A100 is built on Android Honeycomb, but in the case of the A100 it’s running Honeycomb 3.2 out [...]

Orders Go Out for 15 Million iPhone 5s

After all the rumor and guesswork about the future of the iPhone 5, we at last have a little bit of solid information.  Digitimes is reporting today that Taiwanese notebook maker Pegatron has obtained an Apple contract to manufacture 15 million iPhone 5s/4S’.  That order will begin shipping in September of 2011, according to other [...]

Acer’s 7-inch Iconia A100 Found at FCC

The Acer Iconia Tab A500‘s little brother, the A100, has been spotted at the FCC.  The A100 was due to ship back in April, and in fact went up for pre-order in the UK with a promised April 20th ship date.  Then it was delayed due to some reported compatibility issues with Honeycomb.  The most [...]

Acer Iconia Tab A500 Update Rolling Out

The Acer Iconia Tab A500 received an OTA Update today, which I can confirm is rolling out OTA.  This is, unfortunately, not the 3.1 Honeycomb update Acer owners were hoping for, but rather a build upgrade to version 1.141.07.  The Update is about 38MB, takes only a few seconds to download over wifi, and then installs [...]

Release of Acer Iconia Tab A100 Gets Delayed

The recent Acer Iconia Tab a500‘s little brother, the 7-inch a100 was set for a late May release, but that’s been pushed back.  The smaller dual core Tegra 2 device hosted a slightly altered form factor from it’s larger brother, but packed identical hardware including 1GB of RAM 16GB of internal storage, and Android 3.0 [...]

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