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.
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.
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.
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.).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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