The sweetest Honeycomb tablets we've seen to date modern packs Android goodness in a package with a new handheld OS version is fine to resolve the problem more tablets Android 'to date: the lack of decent tablet applications sepcific. But the 7-inch Acer Iconia Tab A100 is the form small, too small a battery. Alas, even if we give this great little tablet a strong recommendation, his misery battery, preventing it from reaching the status of the editors choice. "
Wi-Fi only Acer Iconia Tab A100 costs $ 329.99 and the 8GB model and $ 349.99 and the 16GB drive, put it in the middle of a 7-inch tablet in the realm of cheapo models, such as Coby Kyros ($ 199, 2 stars) and the brochure HTC ($ 499, 3.5 stars) playbook and the BlackBerry ($ 499, 2.5 stars). There is no plan for this to be aboard a U.S. carrier 3G, unlike his brother Iconia A501, which is coming out of AT & T.
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Physical characteristics, networking and battery
Acer is not a king of industrial design, and the A100 Iconia tab is like a pileup when it comes to the air. Okay if this pill has many other things for him. Iconia Tab A100 is a 7.7 by 4.6 by 0.5 inches (DRC), 13.9 oz plastic tray with a brilliant design of cheap money for research on blue-gray back. Both the front and back feeling a little fat and tend to attract fingerprints. The tablet has a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack, volume buttons, a lock switch of direction, a power button, and plenty of ports on the bottom. Owner is charged an adapter instead of a standard micro-USB connection, but also has a micro-USB port for connecting to a PC, microphone and a HDMI port for connecting the tablet to a HDTV.
Turn on the shelf and you will see a resolution of 1024 by 600 LCD touch-screen average brightness. At its automatic brightness is clearly cut and the screen is too reflective, but pump up the brightness and it looks good. The stereo speakers on the bottom is high enough to get their message across, but they are slender, like any speakers other tablets. I have much better sound with the headphone jack and a pair of Bluetooth stereo headphones. Acer announces the 802.11 a / b / g / n Wi-Fi here, but we could not find any of our 5GHz Wi-Fi network with this tablet, but the connection to 2.4 GHz network is simple.
Interestingly, the A100 also Iconia a blocked SIM card slot, even if the location is mentioned in the guide bar of the Quick Start. Is a missed opportunity, because I love the opportunity to partner with a plan A100 AT & T prepaid tablets.
The A100 Iconia Achilles heel, and the reason it does not receive a nod Editor's Choice, is its poor battery life, thanks to a smaller than usual, a 3060mAh battery. (Most of the tablets have 4000mAh or more of the battery.) We were unable to 3 hours, 53 minutes of video playback on a single charge, not enough for a cross-country flight. The large 7-inch tablet compare this bad in 8 hours, 15 minutes, we got the BlackBerry PlayBook, or 6 hours, 32 minutes for Samsung Galaxy Loss ($ 399, 3.5 stars). It is also smaller than we see on most 10-inch tablets, such as Apple iPad 2 ($ 499, 4.5 stars), which lasted 7 hours, 30 minutes.
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Android Applications
Tab Iconia A100 is the first pill shipping with Android 3.2. It's a big deal and a very good thing. Android Market, which houses more than 200,000 applications are ugly phone broke the tablets, and Android 3.2 does just enough to fix things. It is very difficult to find programs designed for monitors of pills on the market. While the phone to run applications, they often look awkward or poorly designed.
Android 3.2: The major new feature is the zoom, the phone application to make sure that you run a small phone screen, and zoom the text and images instead of filling the portions of screen space. This is not a big 10-inch tablets as we have seen iPad Apps designed for 3.5-inch screens and can be enlarged to very grainy 10-inch display.
But it's the kind of wonderful in a unit of 7 inches, which is just small enough that the ring appears to still be used. I tried the soft Coco Conan O'Brien team is deplorable on most tablets. Standard mode is a list of ugly with too much empty space on the orange side of the screen. In zoom mode, it is tight and looks good.
This is not a panacea, not nearly. Google Android Market be corrected to film the owners can easily get the tablet-specific applications, and until that happens, the tablets Android is a huge disadvantage against the iPad. But it is better that the experience of other tablet Android so far.
The function of the application-level Android 3.2 is the greatest innovation, so for the rest of the honeycomb package, see our initial review of the honeycomb OS.
Performancewise, the A100 has the same Nvidia Tegra 2 Iconia 1GHz dual-core chipset as any other pill honeycomb, and the benchmark results are very similar. High-end games such as Galaxy on Fire 2 play smoothly and web pages even with flash, load quickly and display their content as well.
Acer has not torn Android per se, but it adds a lot of its own applications for Iconia Tab. They are quite useful, but there are better alternatives for them all and I wish I had the opportunity to throw them for my own choices.
NemoPlayer media player makes it easier to browse through your videos that the standard Android gallery, thanks to the large thumbnails. Musica Shazam is a good scam. Aupeo is a clone of worms. social jogger is a bit awkward Twitter / Facebook client. Movie Studio is an editor of the base film. Hardwod Solitaire is the best game of Solitaire on the research you have ever seen. Acer Planner is a home screen with alternative news and widgets and e-mail Clear.fi is a client for DLNA network system incomprehensible that allows a small number of highly qualified technicians media from their PC, tablet and television equipment. Again, these applications are not uninstalled.
One thing is constant here: Iconia A100 is not a traditional USB mass storage mode, and is fully compatible with Macs can be connected to a Windows PC, you can download clunky Acer Sync software, which comes after the card is possible to drive by dragging. Acer Sync, also claims to synchronize Outlook data with the tablet, but I did not get that part of the software to find my tablet.
Rating: 5
Reviewer: HotblogReview
ItemReviewed: Acer Iconia Tab A100 (Wi-Fi)
