From a purely aesthetic perspective, the Acer Iconia Tab A100 looks a lot like the A500 that we reviewed earlier this year. From its sloping edges to the placement of front camera and SD card implementation, it is clear that the apple does not fall too far from the tree. However, due to the small form factor, the A100 has to settle for micro versions of the ports instead of the full-size versions included in the A500.

At the lower edge of the tablet feels most of its ports, including a reset button, Micro-HDMI, Micro-USB port adapter, and a port for connecting to a compatible dock. On the opposite shore, from left to right are the headphone jack, lock button / screen and a microphone hole. At the top are the volume rocker switch, lock (which keeps the screen rotation), and a compartment that opens to reveal the microSD card slot. The left front bezel houses the 2 megapixel camera with a hardware button on your iPhone-like home in the far right of the cover. On the back near the top is a 5 megapixel camera with flash.


Acer Iconia Tab A100 sports a glossy screen and the piano-black bezel that attracts fingerprints like a scene from "CSI" crime. The back panel is gray with silver Acer logo embossed in the center, and some swirl designs of wire mesh-like things a bit.

While Acer does not emphasize this in the press material, the main advantage of Android 3.2 is the apparent increase in performance. Like many other tablets on the market, the A100 incorporates a Tegra 2 1 GHz processor. Overall, we believe that the SoC has performance limitations, with some delays is visible fairly typical. That said, the A100 performs well. Applications are quick to open and minimize and smooth the screen responds to taps and bumps. The A100 also features on-board flash 10.3, and while the sites charge a bit faster than other tablets honeycomb, the difference was subtle, at best. Definitely not a reason to consider purchasing this or another board.

And while the benchmarks do not tell the whole story, we are encouraged that their scores on Nenamark 1 and 2 and test mobile browser Vellamo exceeded that left the 10-inchers as the Lenovo IdeaPad K1. (This was the first time he tried to run the popular Quadrant in Android. 3 2 devices and applications crashed every time.) In this mosaic of evidence for the A100, even surpassed the Toshiba prosper, which in once gave a similar number to the Galaxy Tab 10.1. It is good therefore to see evidence that as corny as the A100 is actually could play in the same league as larger, more expensive models.

We also had mixed luck in the department of stability. While some applications, such as Tweetdeck, went smoothly, others, like Amazon Kindle, the closing force. In addition, the accelerometer is too sensitive. During our tests, routinely turned the screen orientation when you do not want to say. That makes us appreciate other pills, such as K1, to pause before moving from horizontal to vertical and vice versa.

Finally one of the most anticipated Android tablet honeycomb of steel, A100 Iconia Tab is finally released and available for purchase in the U.S., while Iconioa tab goes on sale in Canada next month. The tablet comes with a 1024 x 600 touchscreen is 16:10 comfortable form factor design and execution in Android 3.2 Honeycomb. The A100 Iconia Acer tablet was delayed until the second half of this year despite planned for last May.

The tablet works with NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core 1 GHz and has 7-inch screen with 1024 x 600, 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and an LED flash back and a front 2-megapixel camera for video calls, 1 GB of RAM, digital compass and an accelerometer, along with 8 GB of storage in the A100-07u08u while 16 GB of storage in the A100-07u16u. It seems that Best Buy will offer its own version of A100-100 Tab Iconia 07u08w of which is functionally identical to the general release of the specifications of 8GB. There is also a microSD slot expandable up to 32 GB.

For connectivity the device offers WiFi a / b / g / n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and microHDMI and other ports include microUSB 2.0 and a 3.5mm headphone jack, along with a docking station port on the bottom. The camera rear camera Iconia Tab 100 is capable of capturing video at 30 fps 72p and come preloaded with tabs Player 10.3 and its own eBook Lumire application. Other softwares include Social Jogger, Facebook Acer and Twitter integration and support DLNA (wrapped in Acer brand clear.fi). Company claims five hours of battery life of the device.

The Acer Tablet Tab Iconia A100 is priced at $ 329. 99 for the 8GB, while the 16 GB version is $ 349.99, in Canada the 16GB version will cost $ 399.99.
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