Playstation 4 Will Be Launched at 2012

As part of competitive strategy in  the face  of new  consoles  including the Wii  U of Nintendo, Sony plans to begin producing  the new generation gaming device later this year.

PC Mag Wednesday (06/07/2011) reports, Sonys latest console is touted as a PlayStation 4 or PS4 will start shipping in 2012.

This news was first blown by DigiTimes, the Taiwanese media to review the technology components of the gadget industry. DigiTimes reports said, the console will be based motion controllers such as Microsoft Kinect and components will be made by Foxconn and Pegatron Technology.

Initially, officials estimated the Sony PS3 will last up to ten years. But lately, they began to doubt these estimates. They assume, at the latest PS3 can last for at least eight years.

On the other hand, during the Sony maintains PS3, Nintendo as its largest competitor has announced a new gaming device, Wii U which will start shipping in 2012.

April, Sony announced it had sold 50 million units of PS3. For now, companies from Japans central focus of improving the ability of the PlayStation handheld gaming devices Vita.

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99 Dollar Acer Iconia B1 Tablet with Android 4 1

Acer Iconia B1 Tablet

From WSJ (Wall Street journal), the news has come that Acer is planning to make low budget tablet for around $99. The tablet name is Acer Iconia B1. Their major targeters for this tablet are emerging markets including China. 

As you all know Acer is multinational hardware and Electronics Corporation situated in New Taipei City, Taiwan. They are premier marketers of laptop, PCs, tablet computers, Smartphones, gadgets etc. They are promoting this tablet for developing markets where user cannot afford high end devices. 

Let see what Acer Iconia B1 tablet offers - 

 

Features
Display	7-inch
Resolution	1,024 x 600
Processor	1.2 GHZ, Dual Core
Operating System, Storage	Android Jelly Bean, 8 GB
RAM	512 MB
GPU	PowerVR SGX 531

More detailed has not been leaked but this looks cheap and fair powerful specially for developing countries.

With the introduction of this super-cheap tablet, Apple iPad mini and Google Nexus 7 will face good competition from Acer Iconia B1.

Although the mini and nexus 7 are high-end device but they are very costly. Thats why to attract user in developing countries they have planned to build this device and get lot of attractions from them due to its cheapness. 

What we see from the sources that it apparel has blue trim/backplate. Also it is not confirmed that this cheap device will come to the UK or US. As I said their major target is emerging countries only. 

Offers Android jelly bean

We have to wait for more info on this one at CES 2013 and MWC 2013. 

Sources also revealed that Acer is planning to make cheap price (around $499) Windows 8 tablets next year. Lot of users from developing nations will be amazed after getting such type of affordable value news on tablets and gadgets. They are thanking Acer for manufacturing such type of tablets.

Price: Only $99, super cheap.

Overall:

On seeing it I can say it will get good response from low-tier users. Also the tablet looks smart and having enough specs for such low cost.

Hope you like this short news on super cheap tablet from Acer.

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