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Acer’s ten-inch Tegra 2 tablet with Verizon LTE? You’re looking at it right now, courtesy of the NVIDIA booth at CES 2011’s Digital Experience show. It’s just the same engineering prototype with an early build of Android 2.2 we’ve seen before — it’ll run Honeycomb at launch — but this time, we got to touch. The hardware seriously feels final, with a solid metal case and a supremely responsive touchscreen that tracks a full ten points of contact. There’s an interesting array of ports, too, with a full-sized USB port (as well as micro-USB) on one side and a dedicated charging socket too, as well as a dock connector on the bottom. What’s missing are the standard Android Home, Menu and Back buttons, as instead of those, you simply swipe the lower right corner of the screen to bring up a tiny pane of virtual alternatives. No LTE connectivity to be found at Digital Experience, we’re afraid, so we’ll have to bring you speed tests another day — but we’ll have video up soon. For now, peep the gallery below.

Update: Video after the break!

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There’s not much to say here, since Sony wasn’t letting us do much with its prototype glasses-free 3D portable Blu-ray player except adjust the screen angle, but we will say that the 10.1-inch 1366 x 768 parallax 3D display looked quite nice and the 3D effect was solid once we got situated. Of course, it’s just a prototype, so there’s no word on price, availability, or even whether this thing will ever get made, but hey — there it is. One more pic after the break.

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Hello there, Galaxy S without a SIM card slot, how are you today? Samsung’s showing off its Korea-bound Galaxy Player at CES today and we’ve got to say, it’s almost indistinguishable from the European Galaxy S handset. The small differences include the addition of a second speaker on the back of this device, offering a stereo sound experience when you’re away from your headphones and, of course, a retractable TV antenna (it’s for the Korean market, after all). Availability is set for this month in Samsung’s home nation, but our queries about US plans were unfortunately met with uncertainty. Samsung says nothing’s yet been announced for bringing this creation to retail shelves in North America, but the gallery is right here and right now.

Photography by Myriam Joire.

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Microvision has its ShowWX+ pico projector on hand here at Digital Experience, but it also has something of a surprise: a prototype Android “mini tablet” with a built-in projector. No word on any plans for an actual release, but the device is fairly polished for a prototype, and the reference design on which it’s based isn’t too shabby — it’s got an ARM11 processor, Android 2.2, HDMI in and out, a 3.5-inch capacitive WVGA display, and a 5 megapixel camera. Interestingly, the device also has a 3-axis accelerometer, and Microvision was quick to point out that the device could well be suited for gaming in addition to the usual activities associated with a projector. Hit up the gallery below for a closer look.

Update: Video now after the break.

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Remember TDK’s retro-tastic triple ghettoblaster? It’s here at CES 2011’s Digital Experience along with a smaller two-speaker unit that’s much the same thing, a pair of headphones with an in-line equalizer, a classic turntable, and what TDK’s calling the “Stereo Cube.” We’ll head back real soon to give them a full test, but what we know right now is that this particular stereo is large, heavy and — in more ways than one — loud. See some snapshots below, and find prices and details after the break.

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