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CES 2012 preview: we're here
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Acer Aspire Timeline X 5830T
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Acer Aspire 5749
REVIEW A bargain, but not bargain basement 5,950 reads
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Acer Iconia Tab A510 shows up at CES (pictures)
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Acer CloudMobile Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone set for MWC launch
4.3-inch award winner 10 February 2012 15:42 GMT TweetPocket-lint has just received word from Acer that the Acer CloudMobile smartphone has just received the iF design award 2012, in recognition of outstanding achievement in design.
Bravo indeed.
Except, we're not sure that we've ever...
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Acer Allegro Windows Phone 7 smartphone pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON CES 2012: Coming to the UK? 17 January 2012 11:17 GMT TweetAcer launched the Acer Allegro Windows Phone 7 smartphone in France in October 2011. That made it the company's first foray into the the world of the popular Microsoft mobile OS and now there seems to be a decent chance that it will be arriving elsewhere...
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Acer Aspire 5749 review
REVIEW
A bargain, but not bargain basement
16 January 2012 16:18 GMT
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Not everyone wants to pay for all the latest and greatest extras on a laptop. From USB 3 to WiDi, and audiophile sound to slim brushed metal design, the top-end laptops now offer outstanding features at what can quickly add up to a serious hole in...
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Acer Iconia Tab A510 shows up at CES (pictures)
CES 2012: The A700's little Tegra 3 brother 12 January 2012 1:10 GMT TweetIt isn't just the Iconia A700 packing Tegra 3 action from Nvidia; the quad-core chip can also be found lurking inside the Acer Iconia Tab A510 that is on show in Vegas at CES as well.
Afforded much less fanfare than its A700 sibling, the A510...
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Acer Timeline Ultra pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON CES 2012: Still thin, just not the thinnest 9 January 2012 0:57 GMT TweetWhile the main focus of the Acer press conference at CES 2012 was the thinnest laptop in the world that is the Acer Aspire S5, it shouldn't go without note that the Taiwanese computer maker came up with two other perfectly good Ultrabooks at the same...
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Acer Iconia Tab A700 pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON CES 2012: Quad core action 9 January 2012 0:50 GMT TweetCould the Acer Iconia Tab A700 be the best tablet on show at CES? It's definitely the best so far due to that fact that it is only the Taiwanese company that has played its launch hand at the metaphorical Vegas blackjack table that is the world's biggest...
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Acer Aspire S5 Ultrabook pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON CES 2012: The thinnest laptop in the world 9 January 2012 0:20 GMT TweetWith its second bite at the Ultrabook cherry, Acer looks to have hit the heights. This time, instead of a half measure in the shape of the Acer Aspire S3 with its hybrid SSD/HDD storage solution, the Acer Aspire S5 goes straight to the top of the Ultrabook...
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Windows 8 Ultrabooks arriving this year
CES 2012: Acer boss states ambitions 8 January 2012 23:57 GMT TweetThe Ultrabook revolution "cannot be stopped" according to the Acer CEO J.T. Wang who stated that slimline Windows 8 machines would be landing later on this year. "When the next generation of Windows launches, in the second half [of 2012], we will launch...
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AcerCloud: Acer copies Apple iCloud for new limited cloud service
CES 2012: Photos everywhere 8 January 2012 23:25 GMT TweetAcer has announced that it will take on Apple in the iCloud stakes with a new service called AcerCloud at CES in Las Vegas.
In what looks like a carbon copy of the Apple service however with limitations, the new Acer service promises to "securely...
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Acer Iconia Tab A700 quad-core tablet gains officialdom
CES 2012: Full 1080p too 8 January 2012 23:11 GMT TweetThe Acer A700 has been teased over in Vegas with Campbell Ken, president of Personal Computer Global Operations, showing off the 10-incher at the Taiwanese company's press event at CES.
We all went "ooh" when the Acer Iconia Tab A200 was officially...
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Acer Aspire S5 brings Thunderbolt to Ultrabooks
CES 2012: Aspire Timeline Ultra also unveiled 8 January 2012 21:20 GMT TweetAcer has kicked off the Ultrabook flurry at CES 2012 by unveiling the Aspire S5, described as the "world's thinnest Ultrabook", and the Aspire Timeline Ultra.
The new Acer Aspire S5 is a slimline notebook, only 15mm at the thickest point, featuring...
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CES 2012 preview: we're here
FEATURE The gadgets to look forward to 8 January 2012 15:32 GMT TweetThe International CES 2012 is now upon us and Pocket-lint is on the ground in Las Vegas, ready and poised to bring you all the action as it happens. But what will be at the biggest consumer electronics trade show this year to get us all excited about...
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Acer Iconia Tab A200 priced and dated for the US
Mid Jan, $330 5 January 2012 14:59 GMT TweetThe Acer Iconia Tab A200 entered the realms of officialdom back in December and we now know when the Honeycomb flavoured Tegra 2 device will be hitting the shops.
In the US that is - where a release date of 15 January has been stated and a...
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Acer Iconia Tab A700 set for CES unveiling
It's Tegra 3-tastic 30 December 2011 13:27 GMT TweetWe all went "ooh" when the Acer Iconia Tab A200 got official earlier this month but then went "boo" when we found out it was a Tegra 2 machine and not a much anticipated Tegra 3 flavoured one.
But our Kal-El Iconia expectations are due to be...
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Acer HN274H 3D monitor review
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Desk tidy for the 3D age
21 December 2011 21:01 GMT
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Can't decide whether to invest in a 3DTV? Acer's HN274H, a 27-inch PC monitor that uses an active shutter 3D system might be the perfect stop gap.
Although hardly a good-looking design, with a gloss black chassis that's a tad grating, this...
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