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Acer wants to be a major player in the emerging tablet market, which will require capable devices, tantalizing price points, and carrier support. The company is ahead of the game on that latter bit, with AT&T announcing plans to carry Acer's Iconia Tab A501 4G tablet later this year. When the dust settles, Acer hopes to have grabbed a 10 percent share of the tablet market.
In terms of units shipped, Acer is aiming to offload between 5 million and 7 million tablets in 2011, DigiTimes reports. Acer will look to get off to a good start with its above mentioned Iconia tablet. It's a 10.1-slate with a dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 providing the horsepower and Android's 3.0 (Honeycomb) OS making up the dashboard. The Iconia Tab A501 is slated to ship in the second quarter of this year.
Acer will have its work cut out for it if it's to meet its ambitious goal. The Iconia in particular will be going up against the iPad 2, Samsung's redesigned, ultra-slim Galaxy Tab 10.1, RIM's Playbook, and HP's TouchPad, to name just a few of the more popular options. If Acer's to succeed in capturing a 10 percent share of the market, it will probably have to undercut the competition in terms of price.
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