Microsoft is apparently making things too difficult for hardware manufacturers looking to be early Windows 8 partners according to recent comments made by Acer’s president, JT Wang. When questioned at Computex this week as to why Acer was not part of the early stages of Windows 8 tablet development, Wang claimed that “Microsoft is exerting too much influence on the hardware requirements for tablets meant to run the forthcoming Windows 8 operating system”. ...

While we wait for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 event to start at 10am (EST), Microsoft’s Romanian division just couldn’t keep quiet any longer. Three new hardware manufacturers will be joining Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 party starting with Mango: Acer, Fujitsu, and ZTE. Said parties have committed to to pushing out their new hardware before the end of 2011. Meanwhile, the WP7 Mango SDK is slated to drop within the next 24 hours with an official...

Chrome OS junkies are no doubt good at waiting, and waiting…and waiting for some actual hardware to hit the market. Once potential hero in the Acer ZGA tablet/laptop was killed when Acer nixed the project in 2010. But there is hope as a new device, the Acer ZGB, has begun appearing in bug reports. The hardware is again a tablet/laptop of sorts and features a 1,366 x 768 display with an Intel Atom processor powering it all. Obviously, as beta as this hardware is,...

4.3″ may be the default size for a high-end smartphone these days, but Acer looks to push that standard and challenge the very word “phone” with their Iconia Smart smartphone. To start, the Iconia Smart makes use of a larger (and longer) than life 4.8″ display running at 1024 x 480 resolution. For those not able to do the math themselves, that translates to a 21:9 screen — on a phone. Such display sizes are few and far between in the...

There’s no doubt that 2011 is going to be a big year for tablets. Between Apple’s iPad 2 as well as no less than a dozen different Android tablets, the RIM PlayBook, and Palm’s trifecta of consumer-oriented tablets, consumers will have quite the time narrowing down exactly what it is they want. And while we’ve seen several different upcoming tablets leaked in some form or another, this latest leaked video showing Acer’s upcoming 10″...