Acer unveiled the 7-inch Iconia B1 tablet
at CES earlier this month and we saw the
Android 4.1 tablet hit Indian shores at a
price of Rs. 7,999 .
Now rumours being churned out of China
Times indicate that the company might be
building 8 and 10-inch tablets that are
expected to be priced anywhere between
NT$ 6,000 ($205) and NT$7,000 ($239)
respectively. Furthermore, they're likely
to be powered by the latest MediaTek
quad-core processor.
Speaking to the publication, Acer CEO
Linxian Lang talked about the possibility
of expanding the company's tablet lineup
with more screen sizes and different
prices to compete with other tablet
manufacturers, especially Google and
Amazon.
If these speculations are anything to go
by, then the quad-core processors could
give the Nexus 7 and the Kindle Fire HD a
tough competition. Lang also mentions
that Acer expects to ship 200 million
tablets this year, 80 million of which will
be higher-end models.
As far as availability is concerned, a
separate report in the Taipei Times hints
at Q4 release. But considering that the
Iconia B1 did not make it Stateside, it's
possible that these tablet meet wight he
same fate.
Speaking of the Iconia B1, the tablet
sports a 7-inch display with 1024x600
resolution and is powered by a 1.2GHz
dual-core MediaTek processor (MTK
8317T) alongside 512MB RAM and 8GB
internal storage. It features a microSD
card to expand the available storage by
another 32GB. Connectivity options on
the Acer Iconia B1 include Wi-Fi 802.11
b/g/n, GPS, Bluetooth 4.0 and Micro-USB.
There's a VGA front camera as well.
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