![]() ![]() Worse still, the pair suffers from a trifecta of annoyances: heavy glare, pronounced fingerprint smudging, and bad vertical viewing angles. The two 14-inch, 1366 x 768 touchscreen displays can withstand quite the digit-beating thanks to Gorilla Glass, but at the same time doesn’t always seem to register my clicks. Making it even less portable is a 4-cell Lithium Ion that in practice lasted just over two hours per charge. The Touchbook, as Acer calls it, weights 6.2 pounds and measures about 1.3 inches thick when closed, which is all just about on par with the Dell XPS 15 equipped with a 9-cell battery. The Iconia Touchbook is more akin to a proof of concept or a prototype: some great ideas skinned over a platform that can’t handle it (Windows 7) and built into hardware not ready for prime time. Is two at all better than one? Read on to find out. The Acer Iconia 6120 Touchbook and Kyocera Echo smartphone tackle the same subject with varying degrees of success and fundamental flaws. ![]() So it’s more than a bit interesting to see two such devices launch in the same month. Very few such machines exist, and with a notable exception, very few have made a impact at retail. It’s not much of a stretch to label the dual-screen device market a niche experiment. ![]()
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