Acer’s new Amadana and CE270 monitors are unusually, strikingly stylish

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Did you cognize Acer acquired a Japanese plan steadfast called Amadana precocious past twelvemonth that makes classy java gear, retro calculators, aerial purifiers, and each mode of minimalist low-fi tech? Neither did I till contiguous — but it goes a agelong mode to explaining wherefore a fewer of Acer’s caller monitors astatine IFA 2025 are leaping disconnected the page.

Unfortunately for stateside readers, Acer has nary existent plans to vessel its Amadana branded products beneath successful the US. The 27-inch 27ART0 P1 desktop show — whose show is conscionable 8mm heavy — and the 16-inch, 1.4-pound 16APM1QJ portable monitor, are headed to EMEA regions successful Q1 for €169 and €119 respectively.

They’re not dense connected tech, anyhow: they’re 1080p IPS screens, astatine conscionable 250 nits of brightness, and lone the desktop show reaches 144Hz. The portable panel, with USB-C and mini-HDMI input, is constricted to 60Hz, though some monitors connection adaptable refresh rate.

But the Acer CE270U Z, beneath and atop this story, will travel to North America for $700 successful Q1, and diagnostic a 26.5-inch 1440p OLED sheet astatine 280Hz. It besides has AMD’s spirit of adaptable refresh complaint (FreeSync Premium Pro) and highest brightness of 1000 nits successful HDR (250 nits typical), with 2 HDMI 2.1 ports and 1 DisplayPort 1.4.

Here’s a look astatine immoderate earlier Amadana products, courtesy of Acer. Amadana writes that it’s named aft a determination successful Japan’s Edo play wherever good lacquerware was sold.