Acer have brought a couple of powerful handhelds to IFA in the form of the Acer Predator 6 smartphone and Predator 8 tablet.
Both of these Android devices are designed with hardcore gaming in mind. For the mobile phone side of things the Acer Predator 6 is quite the beast with a deca-core Mediatek Helio X20 chipset, 4GB RAM, 21 mega-pixel rear camera and quad front-facing speakers.
Going up in size, Acer have the 8-inch Acer Predator 8 gaming tablet. Again running Android, and boasting 4 “TacSense” front facing speakers. The Predator 8 has an Intel Atom Z7-Z8700 CPU, 2GB RAM, and option for either 32 or 64GB internal memory and space for an SD card. Surprisingly the tablet measure only 8.7mm!
The 8-inch screen is a 1920 x 1200 resolution keeping battery life up and costs down. Acer plan to launch the Acer Predator 8 in China for 2499 Yuan, Europeans will pay 349 Euros while U.S customers get lucky with a low $299 price tag.
We’re still waiting on more details of the Acer Predator 6 and will bring them to you later in the week. Keep posted for more news from IFA.
Looks awesome!!! This is a real innovation!!! How much is the Predator 6?!!
Oh! It won’t be released until 2016… Oh well….
Wow! Hope the 6 won’t be that expensive.
Such a “beast” tablet with 2GB RAM only? And like 1usd=1eur is not enough anymore (25% more expensive for me), now I must also pay additional 17% for the amount difference. Truly a (financial) predator for us Europeans.
soo true ! The ones that get me are the laptops $1000 is obviously = £1000 laptop. Hmmmm
Looks awesome!!! This is a real innovation!!! How much is the Predator 6?!!
Oh! It won’t be released until 2016… Oh well….
Wow! Hope the 6 won’t be that expensive.
They’d be stupid not to have 4G/LTE in all models. Thumbs up to them for getting the camera right. So many tablet makers skimp putting dog arse 1-2MP front cams and maybe 5-8MP back.
It’s main competitor will be the Nvidia Shield Tablet which would have a better CPU and stylus, but not as good cameras. The base Nvidia tablet only has WIFI, not 4G/LTE. Nvidia has put a lot of work into their gaming support, but it’s not well adopted. If only they did a partnership with Steam.
Tablets are far easier to manufacture as you have circuit room. There’s no reason they shouldn’t be more feature rich than mobile phones.
It has a partnership – i uses the shield with my 970 – until i seitxhed for Amd 😛
As in streaming to steam? I was thinking Android Tegra games purchased and played via Steam Services. My wrong if they have both.
Both lol
Such a “beast” tablet with 2GB RAM only? And like 1usd=1eur is not enough anymore (25% more expensive for me), now I must also pay additional 17% for the amount difference. Truly a (financial) predator for us Europeans.
soo true ! The ones that get me are the laptops $1000 is obviously = £1000 laptop. Hmmmm
They’d be stupid not to have 4G/LTE in all models. Thumbs up to them for getting the camera right. So many tablet makers skimp putting dog arse 1-2MP front cams and maybe 5-8MP back.
It’s main competitor will be the Nvidia Shield Tablet which would have a better CPU and stylus, but not as good cameras. The base Nvidia tablet only has WIFI, not 4G/LTE. Nvidia has put a lot of work into their gaming support, but it’s not well adopted. If only they did a partnership with Steam.
Tablets are far easier to manufacture as you have circuit room. There’s no reason they shouldn’t be more feature rich than mobile phones.
It has a partnership – i uses the shield with my 970 – until i seitxhed for Amd 😛
As in streaming to steam? I was thinking Android Tegra games purchased and played via Steam Services. My wrong if they have both.
Both lol
Both lol