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Acer to show new Aspire Revo nettop at IFA
Sep 1st
PC maker Acer will bring a newly redesigned Aspire Revo nettop PC to the IFA show that begins on Friday. The first in the series will be the Revo RL100 that is even thinner than the original. It’s powered by a 1.3GHz dual-core AMD Athlon II Neo CPU along with NVIDIA’s Ion graphics processor and gets 2GB of RAM.
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit is preloaded onto the 160GB hard drive, and the nettop gets Wi-Fi, a DVD burner and an HDMI and optical audio output. Three USB ports and an Ethernet port round off the connections. A Revo Pad More >
Acer ‘ZGA’ Chrome OS netbook starts popping up in Google bug reports
Aug 24th
Some more interesting stuff on the Chrome OS hardware front has started to pop up courtesy of Google’s own Chromium OS bug reports. Multiple references have been made to a mysterious Acer ZGA machine, which we have on good authority is also referred to generically as Google’s “dogfood device” in bug reports — dogfood referring to the practice of using your own products before you unleash them on the world. Even more interesting, someone actually managed to post a syslog of the machine, which is running an Atom N455 processor, has a 8GB SanDisk pSSD-S2 drive, sports a webcam, 802.11n More >
Acer Liquid Stream smartphone set for August 9 launch
Jul 27th
Acer’s Liquid Stream smartphone is scheduled to be launched in the UK on August 9, according to a listing for the UK electronics retailer Expansys. The device, which first appeared in May, features a 1GHz Snapdragon powering Android 2.1. The UI is presented on a 3.7-inch OLED touchscreen with 800×480 resolution.
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Expansys is selling the Liquid Stream unlocked for £399 (~$610 USD). The device offers tri-band HSPA 3G connectivity. Separate reports and FCC documents suggest a North American launch may be set for later in the fall.
