This may well be a turning point for Windows 8: affordable 8 inch full Windows tablets. Not RT but regular Windows 8, so you can use your Windows 7 programs in addition to Metro apps. The Acer Iconia ...

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Why is this such a big deal, you ask? Well, Microsoft’s partners — including Acer — have been sniping at the company ever since it decided to get into the hardware business. In some ways this is ...

Acer hasn’t officially announced plans to launch a Windows 8 tablet called the Iconia W3 with an 8.1 inch display and Intel Atom processor. But that’s exactly what showed up briefly on Amazon a few ...

Billed as “the world’s first 8-inch Windows tablet,” the Acer Iconia W3 is proof that getting there first isn’t always the most important achievement. The W3 puts size and portability ahead of most ...

After months on the market, Windows 8 tablets have yet to rack up the sales Microsoft and PC vendors were originally hoping for. But on Monday Taiwanese PC maker Acer showed off what could be the ...

If you recall, the 10-inch Acer Iconia W510 tablet was the first finished Windows 8 device we tested, so it's not surprising the company is laying claim to the first 8-inch product as well. And ...

Acer’s Iconia W3 is still the one and only 8-inch Windows tablet in town, but it appears that the company isn’t sitting on its heels after gaining that head start. A new report claims that the ...

Acer has announced two new tablets at Computex in Taiwan today (June 3). The firm unveiled the world's first 8-inch Windows 8 tablet in the shape of the Iconia W3, and added the Liquid S1 hybrid ...

If you only gave the Iconia W4 a cursory glance, you would almost think that you'd picked up the W3 by accident. Outside of the repositioned logos and metal-colored plastic ("smokey gray," in ...

Acer reportedly plans to replace the first-gen Iconia W3, the first 8.1-inch Windows 8 tablet, with an updated version that could address screen complaints, potentially arriving as soon as September ...

I've been critical of the ways that Microsoft has both sold and marketed its Surface RT tablet but I've never second-guessed the company's decision to upset its own manufacturing partners by building ...