Acer Iconia Tab A500

Acer Iconia Tab A500

Introduction:

Acer Iconia Tab A500 is the latest in the continuous parade of tablets Android 3.0, and with a price that undermines Apple iPad 2 $ 50 loss Iconia $ 450 (per 04.23.2011) stands out in a host region. This tablet winning accessories for its many advantages, such as its inclusion of both USB and a microSD card slot, support for Dolby Mobile, widgets and personalized home screen allows you to organize applications. But while the loss goes to Iconia to replace a laptop, it still lives up - partly because of his own physical limitations and partly because of its software.

The A500 Iconia Tab is the largest of the three tablets that Acer has already submitted. The model tested here is Wi-Fi only, and is named A500-10S16u. A version compatible with 3G arrives at AT & T.

Design:

The two-tone style Iconia Tab tablets is one of the largest available today. The 10.1-inch multitouch screen has a black bezel, rounded corners more money and a brushed aluminum stand. The screen is difficult to oleophobic, but then, none of the pills I have seen so far can be really effective to fight against the monsters of the fingerprints.

Despite its weight, the tab Iconia felt surprisingly good in my hands. It is slightly longer and wider than the Motorola Xoom, which measures 10.2 by 7.0 by 0.5 inches, is 9.8 by 6.6 by 0.5 inches Xoom.

It is also slightly heavier than Xoom: £ 1.7 to 1.6 Xoom (to be precise, in the laboratory scale PCWorld weighs only 0.05 Iconia tab pounds of 1, 66 pounds for the year 1.61 Xoom if Acer shows its weight 1.69 pounds). However, the reality Iconia tab gave me the impression of being lighter than when Xoom hand. I tried both side by side, and always preferred the overall balance and weight of the sheet Iconia Xoom. Or a tablet is something I want to hold in one hand during a period of time, but both would give the green light tab Iconia. If the weight were excluded from the equation, but prefer the iPhone tab Iconia 2, while the iPad 2 to 1.3 pounds, the lightest of the three, its width of 7.3 inches makes it less conducive to celebration of the portrait and write with both hands.

The tablet feels strongly otherwise. Buttons and ports are logically located. The volume control and block rotation along the right edge at the top are clearly shape and easy to press. Similarly, the power button / rest is easy to find in the upper right corner, convenient and discreet alternative sports a red and white during charging. Even the cover is removed the right to reveal the microSD card slot (and SIM card slot in other models of the A500 support 3G) feels solid.