14 DAY TRIAL // We've already seen world-class PC suppliers unleash new or updated netbooks or notebooks, and it seems a tablet, albeit of the smaller variety, has come to complete the triangle, courtesy of Acer.
Acer is one of the many notebook and smartphone makers that have begun to seriously show their mettle on the tablet market.
In fact, it looks like a certain Iconia series device is finally going to be released in Europe, the United Kingdom to be exact.
It will even be a sort of open window for the company, so to speak, considering that rivals aren't exactly overly active in this area at the moment.
ASUS, for instance, was more focused on updating one of its netbooks, while Dell created a new addition to its collection of notebooks powered by AMD's Fusion APUs.
Acer's tablet that will start selling on April 20 is none other than the Iconia Tab A100, a gadget with a screen diagonal of 7 inches.
It boasts the NVIDIA Tegra 2 SoC (system-on-chip), which has two ARM cores, as well as 512 MB of RAM (random access memory) and 8 GB of flash storage.
Other than that, one will be able to find two webcams, one on the front, for video calls vis Skype or other messaging systems, and one on the back, for taking pictures and shooting videos.
Speaking of videos, the platform is fully capable of handling even HD quality, although the screen won't really be able to fully outpicture that capability.
Specifically, the native resolution of the screen is 1,024 x 600 pixels, not really enough for HD playback.
Still, capacitive touch input is present, as is the Android 3.0 operating system, otherwise known as Honeycomb.
Users will have to part with £300 in exchange for the 7-inch slate, a sum equivalent to $484, more or less.