ANDROID - ACER STEAM UNBOXING AND SIZE COMPARISON

The Steam offers a very nice high end feature set with, Android 2.1 Eclair, 3.7” AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display, 5MP auto-focus camera, video capture 720p HD @ 24fps, Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon processor, HSDPA, Wi-Fi 802.11n, Bluetooth, GPS, micro HDMI port, 3.5mm audio jack and Dolby Mobile technology.

APPLE iPAD 2 VS MOTOROLA XOOM VS ACER ICONIA TAB - CAM WARS

The folks at Netbooknews reviews and compares the rearcams of the Apple iPad 2, Motorola Xoom and the new Acer Iconia Tab A500.Video after the break...

Acer's Iconia Tab A500 soaks up the WiFi rays, hits shelves April 24th for $450

Ladies and gentlemen, the days of spending $600 for an Android Honeycomb tablet are nearly done -- on April 24th, the Acer Iconia Tab A500 will wash that price away with waves of brushed aluminum. That's when the WiFi-only version of Acer's Android 3.0 tablet will hit Best Buy and online retail for $450 sans contract, but with the same basic raft of specs as the WiFi-only Motorola Xoom: a dual-core 1GHz Tegra 250 SOC, a 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 LCD screen, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of flash storage, a 5 megapixel camera around back and a 2 megapixel imager up front, HDMI-out, not to mention a pair of 3260mAh batteries that Acer claims are capable of eight full hours of life while playing HD video. Sure, it's a wee bit thicker and heavier, too, but if you're attracted to shiny things, look for our review in the coming weeks -- or wait until this summer to get one with AT&T.

Acer's 7-inch Iconia Tab A100 priced at £300 in UK, launching April 20th

New Acer will be more like Apple, less like HP

The details behind the rift that saw Acer's CEO Gianfranco Lanci (pictured) suddenly resign yesterday are now starting to emerge. Simply put, Acer's board wants the Taiwanese company to be more like Apple and HTC, according to Bloomberg, raking in big profits on fat margins. Lanci's approach, however, was to aggressively increase volumes and using its scale to negotiate cheaper prices from suppliers in a race to steal market share from Dell and HP. According to data compiled by Bloomberg, Acer's profit margin in the last fiscal year was just 2.3 percent compared to Apple's 21.5 percent. Daunting, to say the least.More after the break...