We here at Engadget tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol’ Federal Communications Commission’s site. Since we couldn’t possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there individually, we’ve gathered up an exhaustive listing of every phone and / or tablet getting the stamp of approval over the last week. Enjoy! Continue reading FCC Fridays: May 18, 2012 FCC Fridays: May 18, 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 May 2012 23:52:00 EDT
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FCC Fridays: May 18, 2012
Needless to say, Ivy Bridge is here to stay — at least until Intel takes us on a different road. That being said, Acer just announced a business-oriented machine of its own with Intel’s latest chips onboard. Part of the outfit’s TravelMate lineup, this 14-inch (1366 x 768) P243 rocks some pretty standard features, including a Core i5, Ivy Bridge processor, an HD webcam for all those Skype calls and a USB 3.0 port. 
The Tegra 3-touting tablet from Acer known as the Iconia Tab A700 hasn’t made the rounds since CES , just over four months ago. 
It’s mid-May — do you know where your Ice Cream Sandwich update is? Six months after Android 4.0 made its debut on the 
Well, Apple’s reign atop the list of the world’s top PC makers was short lived. After clawing its way into the lead, if you counted the iPad as a PC, HP is back atop the heap — even with Cupertino’s tablet-inflated numbers. 
Patience, they say, is a virtue. 
Want a 2.1GHz Ivy Bridge Core i7 in your next media laptop? Mmm, yes please. And a 1080p LED backlit display to devour movies on? 
Acer’s Q1 financial report reveals that the fourth biggest PC maker in the world is feeling weak after posting a very modest profit — three months after it declared a $212 million loss for 2011 . 
Now that the Ivy Bridge cat is out of the bag , you can expect to see a deluge of press releases from PC makers over the coming weeks, each of them saying that this computer or that is getting refreshed with Intel’s latest processors. From Acer, at least, we expect multiple announcements: it’s only ready to talk about a couple of desktops today, with news around laptops and Ultrabooks coming later. 
When the Aura UI first reared its rather ugly head back in November it was unclear what the future of the project was. Now, though, the hardware accelerated window manager and desktop has grown up (at least a little bit) and is being pushed out to owners of Acer and 
