Acer’s new quad-core, mega-resolution tablet is packing 1080p and some serious guts. It might be the turning point for when the average Android tablet is actually worth a damn.
It feels lighter in the hand than the Transformer Prime, and the rubberised body gives it a more durable feel too — like you can set it on a rough table and not worry about it. There’s minimal lag to the ICS interface (Acer’s select-wheel addition to Android isn’t overly intrusive), and it feels very responsive. We also loaded up a bunch of games and tested again, and the 1GB of RAM kept everything running smoothly.
Then there’s the screen. It looks great (we saw Transformers and a few games looking gorgeous), but not so much more than on the Transformer Prime or the iPad 2. It’s gorgeous, but a lot of the media that’s consumed on tablets is streamed at a lower resolution.
Dan
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Kroo
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 8:39 PMHaters hate. Whats your excuse?
Ash
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Hotchips
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 11:27 AMThat is a hands on??? Really? Have to agree with Dan, seems to be a ‘meh’ review from the author.
StevoTheDevo
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 11:45 AMGotta remember guys that this is a Hands on at a trade show… They probably had less than 5 minutes.
StevoTheDevo
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 11:48 AMOh and your whiny anti-Apple stance slants your perspective of what the article actually says.
Drew
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 11:51 AMMore of a quick overview than a hands on.
Chris
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Commander Shepard
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 3:08 PMAnd nobody was interested in android tabs untill now?
This is asking for anti apple comments, stop trolling your readers.
Simon Reidy
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 3:19 PMNo, its just the simple fact that up until recently, Android tablets were overpriced laggy pieces of shit. If you think Honeycomb and Tegra 2 makes a good tablet experience, then you can’t have played with many tablets.
Quad Core, ICS and 1080p are going to make a beast of a tablet for sure, but as the article points out, the majority of content initially will obviously be rendered at a lower resolution, then up-scaled to 1080p. Movies rendered in true 1080p should look sensational though, so I’m definitely interested in checking this out.
Samuel of Kadina
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 5:52 PMGive the author the benefit of the doubt, he may not have been able to play it for long.
smurfydog
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 10:38 PMThis is pretty much the kind of ‘hands on’ you can expect from a CES post. Every news outlet and blog is pushing and shoving to get a few minutes with the products that matter, so nobody really gets much time with them.
That, plus they’ve gotta cover as much as they can in just a few days.
I kinda envy the CES bloggers for the cool stuff the get to see, but really not for the job they have to do.
That said – this looks pretty cool from what little we’ve seen.