Acer’s 10.1″ Iconia Tab A200 tablet will be affordable, but will it be good?
Posted on 05. Jan, 2012 by Albert Madison in Tablets
In 2012 you won’t be asked to pay an arm and a leg for a dual-core 10.1″ Android tablet, well at least not by Acer. Acer America announced today that the 10.1″ Acer Iconia Tab A200 tablet will be launched on January 15, 2012 with a $330 start price. For your $330 you get an Android tablet with 8GB of storage built-in, and for just $20 more you can get a model with 16GB of storage (other Android tablet makers charge as much as $100 for more built-in storage).
Acer is targeting their new Iconia Tab A200 at consumers who aren’t eager to plunk down $500 for a well equipped tablet. And make no mistake about it for your $330 you’re getting a very nice tablet in terms of hardware specifications.
The Acer Iconia Tab A200 features Google’s Android 3.2 Honeycomb (at launch), a 10.1″ 1280×800 capacitive multi-touch LCD, a 1GHz dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processing chip, 1GB of RAM, a 2MP front-facing camera, a microSD expansion card slot, full-size USB 2.0 port, micro-USB 2.0, Acer’s Clear.fi technology for wireless media streaming, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and up to 8 hours of estimated battery life from the tablets included 3260 mAh Li-Po rechargeable battery.
Acer promises that they will have free Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades ready for deployment in mid-February of 2012. The update will come over the air and won’t require a PC for installation.
Right now the only thing that could keep me from picking up a Acer Iconia Tab A200 later this month is if reviews (which should be out soon) find out the tablet isn’t that good to work with. There have been a lot of tablets that look good on paper (specifications) but don’t really work so well in real world use.
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babyfacemagee
08. Jan, 2012
It looks like it actually may be a waterproof tablet. A translation of the original source says as much. Should be interesting to see what Toshiba has up its sleeve come CES. http://thriveforums.com