With the Acer Iconia W3 you’ve got Acer’s first 8.1-inch Windows 8effort on the market – and the first Windows 8 tablet on the market with an 8.1-inch display in any case. Acer’s previous efforts with Android tablets have been decent – we’ve seen the group go all the way back to 2011 with the Acer Iconia Tab A500 and A501 for some of the first Honeycomb efforts on the market – and the Iconia W3 is no move to scoff at. Will this humble-looking handheld be the slate you’ll want to rock for the dawn of Windows next-wave touch software?

Hardware

Acer is no stranger to firsts, that’s for certain. Even the Acer Iconia Tab A100 took a unique chip at the Android tablet block, making way with the first 7-incher to tote Android 3.2 Honeycomb (back when that iteration of Android was first made for smaller-sized tablets).

With the Iconia W3 you’re rolling out with an Intel Atom 1.5GHz Z2760 processor and 2GB of memory, enough to keep Windows 8 rolling relatively hard at this size a display. You’ve also got a collection of wireless connectivity options including WiFi a/b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.0+EDR and you’ll be able to push video mirroring out with this tablet’s built-in micro HDMI port.
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