Live from Acer's New York City Tablet Event

We're live blogging Acer's NYC tablet event so check back often for up to the minute updates!

We're live at Acer's New York event where the company has promised a whole line of tablets. Gianfranco Lanci is on stage right now talking about tablet trends and the importance of different form factors.

Update1: "Today we're going to introduce a whole family of tablets," says Lanci. He's talking about different CPUs, OSes, target markets, form factors and display size right across the line. They're also going to be introducing a new concept, which Lanci is calling a "dual PC Tablet" which will be optimised for touch with ten-finger detection.

Update2: They're using Tegra, which Lanci is praising for its performance when it comes to video games.

Update3: Still no sign of the tablets themselves but Lanci says they're announcing a new store today too, for content. This will work across all devices and provide music, video, gaming, newspapers.

Update4: Jim Wong, Senior Corporate VP is on stage now. Bye-bye Gianfranco! He's talking about interaction and the importance of being able to interact with your device. We're getting impatient here.

Update5: "We think about touch. Touch should have the complete experience -- productivity, entertainment and info-accessing." Today we're going to cover all devices.

Update6: We have the first tablet and it's called the Iconia! It's a dual-screen tablet and guys, it is sexy as hell (pictures soon, promise!). Two 14-inch displays, full touch with 10-finger touch capabilities. Anyone fans of Microsoft's ditched Courier, which was a similar concept. Looks like someone else nipped in and produced it before they could decide what to do with it.

Update7: It's running Windows 7. It's a completely touch keyboard, by the way, no haptic feedback like what we saw in the BlackBerry Storm.

Update8: He's showing off the media player and how the bottom display turns into a library-view of your content while the top display plays the selected media.

Update9: Browsing on this computer is a little different to regular touch-based browsing on phones or the iPad: the bottom keyboard turns into a control panel, while the top display shows the browser.

Update10: We just got a peek at a 10-inch tablet. This one is also running Windows. Looks a lot like the iPad and the Galaxy Tab -- no dual screens this time. It's is directed at media consumption and it comes with a keyboard dock for those of us who love our keyboards too much to let go.

Update11: The promo video for the Iconia playing now. No clarification what that 10-inch is or why they crammed it in with the Iconia. Either way, the Iconia really does look gorgeous. Microsoft is probably kicking itself at this stage.

Update12: So that's the Windows lot. The next one is Android. It's a 10.1-inch tablet.

Update13: We're looking at a dual core 1GHz CPU with an April 2011 release. It is Android, but there's an Acer UI layered on top.

Update14: Acer says it's going to have the 'Google Tablet OS,' Gingerbread to you and me. There's also a 7-inch version with a 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm, and a 4.8-inch device (1024 x 480), also packing Android and that Acer UI. It's got a 1.3MP foward-facing camera, 8MP back camera with LED flash, 720p video. Acer is calling it a smartphone and a tablet.

Update15: We're on to Clearfi, or as Acer likes to call it 'clear.fi.' clear.fi is a media sharing system that allows you to share all your content across your devices. It reminds us a lot of DropBox -- you download something to one device and its immediately available on the others. Works "for any device in the house," so over WiFi.