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Acer Iconia W3 Windows 8 tablet is now official

GadgetW0rld.com - Acer has listed their new Windows 8 tablet, the Acer Iconia W3, on the company's Finnish website. After a number of rumors, the W3 now gets official.

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Report: Acer Could Replace Iconia W3 as Early as September

Maximum PC: "Acer may have beaten other PC vendors to the 8-inch Windows 8 tablet punch with the just released Iconia W3, but the product itself is by no means the kind of device you would want to lead the charge of a new category. It’s heavy and sports a display so bad that it reminds you why display quality, or the lack thereof, prevented touchscreen devices from truly taking off until a few years back. Now, if a Dutch site is to be believed, things could get even worse for those who just bought a W3."

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The Verge - Acer Iconia W3 review: a new, smaller kind of Windows 8 tablet

The Verge - There’s no way I can recommend the W3 right now, at all. It’s the first 8-inch Windows 8 tablet, but the hardware sucks. Acer can do so much better here, even for a budget device. The screen is shockingly bad, and that’s the main way you’ll interact with this device unless you’re set on using it with an optional dock / keyboard or you want to hook it up to a HDMI display. Either way, there are many better devices that work as tablets or notebooks out there right now, and the W3’s only unique offering — its 8-inch screen — is its biggest fault.

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Are you there, Acer? If you refresh the Iconia W3, could you improve its screen?

TechRadar - We're used to refreshes, but it's fairly rare that word of a revamp comes so soon after a device is released, especially when it sprouts from a company source.

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