Acer Iconia Dual-Screen Tablet / Laptop Gets Official

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Acer’s New York media event brought us a bunch of new products today, like the Windows 7 tablet, the 4.8-inch Android smartphone / tablet, the 7-inch and 10-inch Android tablets or the Alive store, but we have one more interesting Acer product to show you today, and this one has a name. The Acer Iconia is a dual-screen tablet or laptop, depending how you look at it and we can’t but wonder how this hybrid device will fight against other tablets and laptops in the near future.

Before moving forward with specs and features we can’t help but notice Acer’s lack of imagination when it comes to product names but at least we salute the fact this potentially iconic device has a proper name, the Iconia.

The tablet/laptop comes with two 14-inch touchscreeen displays, HD 1,366 x 768 resolution, high-brightness Acer CineCrystal LED-backlit TFT LCDs, ultra-thin Gorilla Glass, a “highly intuitive all-point multi-touch functionality,” an Intel Core i5 processor, Acer Ring user interface (meant to help you better control the device by offering a Virtual Keyboard, a Gesture Editor, Window manager and Device Control Console), 3G support, HDMI connectivity, Dolby Home Theater V3 support and Windows 7 in the background.

The Iconia could be a game-changer when it comes to the tablet/laptop market and other companies might use this particular dual-screen design in the near future. But while everything sounds great on paper, we’ll still have to wait and see what actual Iconia users will say about the usability of such a device.

Things like arrival dates and pricing details have not been mentioned yet, but that’s not all we’d like Acer to tell us. This concept laptop has been in the making for a while, but will it really be capable of supporting our daily needs while we’re on the go? The one thing that I’d like to know right now is how will Acer deal with power consumption. We have two touchscreen displays, a powerful processor, and Windows 7 running everything under the hood. In order for the Iconia to be really iconic we’d need a great battery concept, ready to deal with plenty of power consumption. If Acer manages to do that then we might have a Windows 7 tablet/laptop that could fight the iPad a lot better than, say, the HP Slate would. Not to mention it could be a fierce adversary for the rest of the laptops and notebooks out there.