Acer Iconia Tab A500 Review and Specification

Acer Iconia Tab A500 provides the ultimate tablet experience with its gleaming 10.1″ touch screen and attention grabbing metallic design fueled by top of the line technology and the latest Android Honeycomb OS. Maximize your Acer Iconia Tab A500 enjoyment and have fun with Google Apps like Google Movies and Google Music, connect to social networks, play console quality games, browse the Web in accelerated speeds and so much more.

Acer has been one of the leading netbook manufacturers in the past few years, a position that gave them the chance to grow sales in North America and in Europe. With tablets eating up on netbook sales at an accelerated pace, we can clearly see where Acer is headed with the Acer Iconia Tab A500 offerings. We intend to figure out what’s Acer proposition with the Acer Iconia Tab A500, not only from a value perspective a driving force of netbook sales but in terms of features, design and overall experience.

Powering the WiFi-only Acer Iconia Tab A500 is typical current gen tablet hardware which includes an Nvidia Tegra 2 dual core 1 GHz processor, 16GB of internal storage, 1GB of DDR2 system memory, front and rear facing cameras, 802.11 b/g/n WLAN and a 10.1” WXGA HD Multi-Touch Display operating at 1280 x 800.

The Acer Iconia Tab A500 maximizes content enjoyment, providing a rich and vibrant experience on the user-friendly 10.1″ multitouch screen display with an astounding 1280 x 800 resolution and advanced flash support displaying all your HD content in crystal clear form. The orientation-less design ensures optimal on-screen viewing from every angle.

Acer Iconia Tab A500 with the latest build of Android Honeycomb operating system combined with Acer user interface brings a whole new level of interactivity. Personalize your TAB and easily resize the Google app widgets that are most important to you! In addition, the Android Market lets you choose from thousands of apps and games, making your TAB uniquely yours.

This latest OS now supports Google Apps! Rent the latest flicks with Google Movies and listen to your personal playlists with Google Music in great Dolby Sound! Port this whole entertainment experience to your big screen TV in full 1080p HD glory through the micro-HDMI port.

The backside of the Iconia Tab A500 is similar to the iPad 2, featuring a beautiful brushed aluminum finish. A 5 megapixel camera resides at the top right side of the panel with a small LED flash above it. Two stereo speakers flank the bottom corners with the Acer logo centered in the middle. I really like what Acer has done with the back panel.

While completing Acer Iconia Tab A500 review, Android released Honeycomb version 3.1. We decided to postpone the release of the review in order to install the new update and highlight some of the improvements from 3.0.

Acer ICONIA TAB A500 Specifications:

If you’re set on buying an Android tablet today, the Acer Iconia Tab A500 is one of the best bets at this writing it tops the Xoom in functionality, and its $450 price is significantly cheaper than the $750 no contract price of the G-Slate. The Acer Iconia Tab A500 is no iPad-killer, but it does give hints of the power of Android’s more open and flexible platform. While I found faults with the Acer Iconia Tab A500 itself, many of my gripes lie with Android 3.0; if Google could only fix that OS’s issues and get the native app ecosystem jump-started, Android tablets might be on to something.