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  • chizow - Thursday, October 17, 2013 - link

    Did I just miss it, or is there no mention of screen size anywhere? Honestly, with these Win8 tablet-a-minute releases, screen size should be in the first 10 words of the review, if not in the title itself.
  • JarredWalton - Thursday, October 17, 2013 - link

    Sorry about that -- I thought I had put it in there with the display aspect but missed the dimensions. Heh. It's an 8" tablet.
  • chizow - Friday, October 18, 2013 - link

    lol thanks, thought I was losing my mind for a sec!
  • MonkeyPaw - Thursday, October 17, 2013 - link

    I hope they improved the horrible panel vs the W3. Granted, only a monochrome screen could have been any worse.

    I want to see some 4:3 panels on the 8" windows tabs. While I know letterbox is better for movies, I bet most users do everything else a whole bunch more. 4:3 is better for portrait mode, IMO.
  • Drumsticks - Thursday, October 17, 2013 - link

    The Lenovo Miix 2 8 inch tablet is 1200x800, so 3:2 if I'm not mistaken, which is closer, although still not quite 4:3.
  • wmenzies - Thursday, October 17, 2013 - link

    The Miix2 is 1280x800.
  • Roland00Address - Thursday, October 17, 2013 - link

    The W4 uses a different screen than the W3, supposedly it is ips.
  • JarredWalton - Thursday, October 17, 2013 - link

    Not supposedly -- the press release very clear states IPS, so it should be decent at least.
  • chizow - Friday, October 18, 2013 - link

    Yeah wow the W3 screen is definitely cringe-worthy, it's no surprise they named this the W4 to distance itself from that damaged brand! But yes I heard they even went back to quickly revise the W3's screen due to all the review backlash. Someone definitely got fired over that panel decision.
  • SetiroN - Thursday, October 17, 2013 - link

    Full windows without 4GB of RAM is silly.
  • Qwertilot - Friday, October 18, 2013 - link

    Well, really, full windows on an 8" tablet is somewhat silly to start with :) Surely only going to be sanely usable for (ex)metro stuff, so they could slice the rest out and get it quite a bit lighterweight overall, so running better and/or cheaper. An intel port of RT if you like ;)
    (Not sure how lightweight RT is mind.).

    Convertibles a different story of course.
  • HisDivineOrder - Friday, October 18, 2013 - link

    Got to save something to add next year.
  • Klimax - Friday, October 18, 2013 - link

    Maybe before 7, but not true since then.
  • t.s - Friday, October 18, 2013 - link

    Looks like dell venue is a better choice here.
  • uhuznaa - Friday, October 18, 2013 - link

    Looking at the scarceness of Metro apps and the resulting need to use "normal" Windows software I would agree that a 8" Windows tablet might not be way to go right now.
  • Hector2 - Friday, October 18, 2013 - link

    I bought a brand new 15.4" Win8 2.4GHz Pentium dual core full feature Lenovo laptop on sale last year for $270. It's great & I'm real happy with it.
    Any small tablet I buy will need to have a price that starts with a "1" and, because of the price of a MS OS, I'm sure it'll be an Android.
  • n13L5 - Sunday, October 20, 2013 - link

    This will be useful for some purposes: I need a full windows tablet for my 3 year old, so she can run a language teaching software that only runs on full windows, but works well with touch.

    The W4 might be just right for this.

    And btw, 2GB of RAM works fine for a lot of things, I've been using an MSI U210 Netbook with 2GB in 2009 for a whole year while on a small island, and while I'd prefer 8GB for speed, it ran just about everything I run on my desktop system. You just can't run too much stuff at once, but Chrome with ~10 tabs open, Excel, Notepad and some other small utilities like advanced renamer etc will run just fine together.
  • damianrobertjones - Sunday, October 27, 2013 - link

    "Acer Launches Iconia W4"

    Odd... I can't seem to find it on the .com or .co.uk page and a search shows nothing? Are they not telling the truth? Then again the Dell Venue 8 release date has been pushed back with people that have pre ordered getting a bit annoyed.
  • yefi - Thursday, December 26, 2013 - link

    Wake me up when they release a Bay Trail tablet that doesn't have a 1280x800 display with crap PPI.
  • Charlie cheng - Tuesday, December 31, 2013 - link

    I bought this tablet 2 days ago and while my daughter's are playing game, the screen suddenly got hang. The picture stay still till i try to switch off and it can't, so i leave to drain out the battery for over night. The next day i charge it and switch on, it work again. I need your expertise advice why it happened as the tablet are new. Thank you

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