Gianfranco Lanci, the CEO of Acer, took to the stage earlier today to show off a few new Acer products – the most exciting of which was a 7″ Android-powered tablet that fits a physical keyboard beneath its screen in a very glamorous-looking portrait-orientation format.
As crazy as that sounds, many users are still keen on the reliable old QWERTY keyboard format – if this is priced sensibly when it arrives (in “Q4″) it could do some serious business.
Here’s Gianfranco showing the Acer tablet off to the crowd:
Looks very nice indeed. Hopefully Acer will soon send out some proper product shots of this prototype unit, as we suspect this kind of QWERTY combo-tablet could well get a lot of people very, very excited.
Link and photo via the wonderfully-named Shufflegazine, which is also suggesting Acer may go down the operator subsidy route when distributing the thing.
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