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hello I'm the Westway 4cn here at CES 2013 I'm taking a look at the Acer Iconia b1 this is an extremely cheap Android tablet to compete with the life of the Google Nexus 7 so let's take a look so this is a 7-inch tablets got a 7-inch display with a 102 4 by 768 pixel resolution it's not the brightest clearest screen I've ever seen but do bear in mind that this is a very cheap device and it looks pretty good powering it is a 1.2 gigahertz dual-core chip now that's not as powerful as the quad core affair that you will find in Google's 7-inch tablet but it feels responsive enough I think for web browsing things like email this would probably be fast enough there's 8 gigabytes of on-board storage if that's not enough capacity for you then you can beef it up using a microSD card it weighs 380 grams it certainly feels very portable if I turn it on its side you can see it's quite slim it does only come in this blue color though so you better make sure you like blue before you buy it because it is quite blue on the software side we're dealing with Android 4.1 jelly bean that's not quite the latest greatest version that you'd find on the Nexus 7 for example but it is a very rural version of Android so there's not an awful lot of Acer meddling going on here AC tells me that really the only thing it's done is to tinker a little bit with some notification menus all good so far but now for the bad news this tablet isn't coming out in the u.s. at the moment it's going to be coming out in Europe and Latin America costing 99 pounds or 119 euros that equates to roughly a hundred and sixty dollars but as I say it's not coming to the States yet fingers crossed AC changed its mind on that one so first impressions are that it's not quite as slick as the Nexus 7 but then it is a bit cheaper so that's exactly the trade-off you're getting I'm really really pleased though that we're seeing more and more cheap decent Android tablets flooding the market it can only be a good thing I'm the Westway for CNET and this is the Acer Iconia b1 you