Testing the Acer Iconia Tab 8, Full HD screen that changes everything

Very involved in the market for tablets, Acer has renewed its range late last year by unveiling new products better equipped and always at great rates. After testing the Iconia Tab 10, the 10-inch model, the Iconia Tab 8 arrived on our shelves. Again, the price / quality ratio looks promising. Checks.

Data sheet
The Acer Iconia Tab 8 is a milestone in our history of the brand devices we have tested. On paper, it seems to have many more arguments than the models of previous years, even though its price does not take off a bit. It includes an 8-inch LCD display with a resolution of 1200 x 1920 pixels, and giving a good density of 283 pixels per inch. This is an Intel Atom Z3745 processor clocked at 1.33 GHz that drives the tablet, the same as we already found in the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2. The SoC is coupled with an Intel HD Graphics chip and 2 GB (LPDDR3 -1066) of RAM. The Acer Iconia Tab 8 has an internal storage of 16 GB with micro SD media up to 128 GB, a back camera of 5 megapixels, and a battery of 4600 mAh.


Source:
http://www.frandroid.com/test/262692_test-acer-iconia-tab-8-lecran-full-hd-qui-change-tout

Acer opens up its Aspire Nitro notebook to gestural control and 3D modeling

Time to get your arm muscles in shape.

It’s a good idea in general, but it could be essential if the kind of in-the-air gestural control that Acer announced today for its Aspire V17 Nitro gaming notebook becomes commonplace.

This version features Intel’s RealSense 3D camera, which can detect movement in three-dimensional space. The Intel component includes a conventional camera, an infrared camera, and an infrared laser projector. The tech employs bounced-back infrared light to infer depth, which, combined with RealSense motion-tracking, is used to determine body movements as well as facial expressions.

The gesture-sensing capabilities resemble Microsoft’s Kinect, so that users can navigate Web pages, play games, or operate applications by body motions and without touching a keyboard or a mouse.

Source:
http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/03/acer-opens-up-its-aspire-nitro-notebook-to-gestural-control-and-3d-modeling/