IFA 2024 | Acer reveals new versatile Iconia X12 tablet with AMOLED display and quad speakers for under €400

While Acer has mainly focused on announcing Windows devices today, it has also presented a new Android tablet. Specifically, the Iconia X12 runs Android 14, which it displays across a 12.6-inch, 2,560 x 1,600-pixel and AMOLED display. Despite delivering just 400 nits peak brightness and a 60 Hz refresh rate, the inclusion of an AMOLED display on a mid-range Android tablet remains unusual.

Additionally, the Iconia X12 finds itself with quad speakers that output at 1 W each, which sit within a 6.7 mm housing and contribute to a 600 g total device weight. On top of that, Acer has equipped the tablet with a 10,000 mAh battery, as well as 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB or 256 GB of expandable storage. Furthermore, the Iconia X12 supports pen input and a detachable keyboard, as the photo above shows.

Although that all sounds promising, Acer has integrated a MediaTek Helio G99 chipset that is now over two years old. Presumably done so to reduce costs, the Helio G99 combines two ARM Cortex-A76 performance cores clocked at 2.2 GHz with six Cortex-A55 efficiency cores running at 2.0 GHz and a Mali-G57 MP2 GPU. As such, the Iconia X12 will only be about as powerful as the Lenovo Tab Plus (curr. $304.99 on Amazon) that we reviewed earlier this year. Currently, Acer hopes to release the Iconia X12 in January 2025 for €369.