If there’s something I hate about exciting product launches is the fact there’s a big gap between the time some novelty is announced and the moment you can really purchase it. The same happened with the Acer 1820p convertible tablet, powered by an Intel low voltage CPU that represents at this time the best compromise between performance and power consumption.

    At Mobile World Congress Acer showcased what I guess is the final version of the 1820p running with TouchPortal, an interface on top of Windows 7 that’s supposed to make things run smoothly controlled by user’s hands. From the capabilities of TouchPortal are worth mentioning things like flick through photos, music collection browsing, video player touch optimized and photo printing by dragging selected images over a printer icon.

    The video below shows a pretty usable interface that doesn’t seem sluggish at all, so I suspect it was optimized enough not to increase hardware requirements. Unfortunately there’s still no word on when it will be available on market, but I hope it’s gonna be rather sooner that later.

    Source: Netbookchoice