Anyone holding out for
lower-cost Windows tablets may not have that much longer to wait.
PCWorld reports that an image and product description for the world’s first small
Windows-based tablet, called the Acer Iconia W3-810-1600, leaked onto Amazon over the weekend before being quickly taken down. From a specs perspective, the new tablet features an 8.1-inch display and 32GB of storage and was selling on Amazon for $380 before it was removed.
Microsoft recently made some changes to its
Windows 8 hardware certification guidelines that
gave OEMs more freedom to make smaller tablets by knocking down the display resolution requirements to 1024 x 768 pixels at a depth of 32 bits for smaller devices.
