Acer Iconia, New wave of Laptop World

Acer might have been thinking about to put physical keyboard as a history. At CES 2011, Acer introduced its new concept for laptops, Acer Iconia. Iconia is the first laptop that ditches the physical keyboard in favour of two touch-screens attached just like a standard laptop.Iconia runs Windows 7 Home Premium, and features two 14", high-definition displays built-in a clamshell design. As in the standard laptop, the upright display is the primary display and the remaining one serves as a navigation panel, a

virtual keyboard, other touch controls and an extensivedisplay of the primary display. This option provides a dual-monitor mobile device for presentation, viewing documents in two displays just like a book. But it can be said quite heavy since the laptop weighs 6.1 lbs which might not be too convienient to carry around as you travelled.

Acer designed the interface called Acer Ring,  to make users easy to access and navigate video, images,web pages, social networking and content library. Users to activate the Ring through default gesture controls by putting you five fingers onto the hand screen or the bottom screen or through user-defined gesture controls with Gesture Editor. But a bad new is that the SDK for the Acer Ring won't be available until December so people will have only to use what Acer has designed to.

In particular, Acer is focusing on consuming and accessing your multimedia content easily with Clear-fi and a device with networking ready to access your content across other devices and other popular web services like Facebook abd Flickr. And, Acer is also planning to introducce its own content store in USA due coming June.

Acer says the Iconia may be available in the United States by Christmas or January at the latest. The device will go on sale in Europe sooner, where it'll be priced at €1,500 or £1,500. The U.S pricing is still unknown but it'll surely break $1,000. A laptop costing €1,500 or £1,500 could say to be quite expensive. So, this laptop will be a luxurious product. According to Acer, the Iconia will have a Intel Core i5-480M processor with 4GB of DDR3 memory and a 320GB(up to 750GB) Harddisk space and 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi. On the right side of the laptop are Ethernet port, standard VGA port, one

USB 3.0 port, and audio jacks. On the left side is an HDMI port and two USB 2.0 port. And, it also includes other standard laptop features such as Bluetooth and 1.3 Megapixel Webcam. One surprising thing is Iconia doesn't have e-SATA port. The Iconia comes with a 44WH, 4-cell battery which would last about 3 hours of life so road warriors might not be suitable users, and also due to its weight, too.

You can view videos of Acer Iconia at CES 2011.