I first saw the Acer Iconia Tablet in a Good Guys store about 2 months ago and wanted it straight away. Being the cautious type and not flush with cash I waited and researched to see what other Android tablets were here in Australia  or on the way. Just before buying, the Toshiba AT100 turned up at Office Works and JB HiFi. This made my choice a bit tougher but looking at both side by side the Acer screen was a lot brighter and the USB ports aren’t hidden behind a flimsy bit of plastic, which they are on the Toshiba. I have seen several complaints on forums about the Iconia having it’s microSD card hidden behind a similar flimsy flap, however I see the microSD as a put in and stay in device.

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I was in Taipei for the Computex 2011 IT Trade show and here is a brief about what I saw there. This years show was all about Tablets, Tablets and more tablets and Cloud computing was huge as well. To be honest I was quite sick and tired of seeing so many tablets. There was just too many of them and I cant understand how they they will be successful especially with Apple and a couple of big Android players like Samsung, HTC and Motorola. There was also a lot of NAS kind of products on show and of course a lot of Cloud computing stuff as well a ton of iPad accessories.

There were some new products from Acer, Intel, Gigabyte, Nvidia and a number of other big companies. This years Computex was bigger than last years according to Computrex. They said about 36,000 international visitors came to the show compared to about 32,000 last year. I have taken a few pics below. Read more