Acer Iconia Review

Acer Iconia-6120 Dual-Screen Touchbook is now available for pre-sale in North America.  Providing a powerful, immersive touch experience like no other, it is the world's first and only tablet to offer two touch-enabled 14-inch high-definition widescreen LED backlit LCDs.

Using the bottom screen to manage and control the action on the top screen keeps presentations, movies or web pages free of icons and other navigational tools.

Extremely durable and scratch resistant, the Iconia's 14-inch LCDs are made of ultra-thin Gorilla(r) Glass from Corning, a renowned manufacturer of extremely durable glass.  "The Acer Iconia Touchbook delivers a computing and visual experience like no other," said Eric Ackerson, senior product marketing manager, Acer America.  "Whether the Touchbook is used by a small business owner or a student, its unique dual screen design enhances the interaction they will have with their digital data.

The unique Acer Ring Control Interface makes navigating by touch simple and intuitive.  By placing five fingers in a circular pattern on the bottom display, the Acer Ring appears, providing instant access to favorite applications and features.  

A super charged tablet filled with enough leading technology to rival many desktop and notebook PCs in performance, the Iconia-6120 Dual-Screen Touchbook is powerful enough to handle demanding applications and graphic intensive multimedia files.  Featuring an Intel(r) Core(tm) i5 Processor with Intel(r) Turbo Boost Technology(2), 4GB of memory and Intel(r) HD graphics, the Touchbook is equipped for heavy lifting.  In addition, Dolby(r) Advanced Audio(tm) v3 brings vibrant sound to business presentations, movies, music, and games.

Windows 7 Premium 64-bit provides a familiar computing environment, and is compatible with today's most popular applications and media formats, and supports full web browsing with Adobe(r) Flash(r) Player 10.1.  To maximize productivity, the Touchbook includes the new USB 3.0 standard with a top speed that's 10 times faster than standard USB 2.0; a 25GB high definition video file can be transferred from an external USB 3.0 storage device in just 70 seconds and stored on the roomy 640GB SATA hard drive(3).
A 1.3 megapixel HD webcam is ideal for face-to-face videoconferencing or for staying in touch with business associates, friends and family.

Features :

• A toolbar at the bottom of either screen provides easy control over the open pages.  To enter a website address, consumers can use the virtual keyboard or enter it using handwriting gestures.  Pages can be added to Favorites by simply tapping the Add Favorites icon.
• Images can be captured from any web page and organized onto a single, easy-to-view page.  Scrapbook is a convenient place to store website and photo images and other content. 

·        Easy-to-use Tools Make Navigating Intuitive and Fun Appearing directly on the Acer Ring are a number of useful functions and tools, including Virtual Keyboard, Gesture Editor, Capture, Webclip, Windows Manager and Device Control. 

• With the picture on the top screen and the Scrapbook page opened on the bottom display, users just tap the Capture tool, run their finger around the desired image and then tap the area to open a menu that will allow them to drag and drop it onto the Scrapbook page.  The captured image will automatically be added as a thumbnail image above the scrapbook page for quick and easy viewing.  The Web Clip tool is specifically for clipping parts of web pages to save to MyJournal.  Users can customize which screen the application appears on as well as its size.