Hardware and Looks
The Acer Iconia Tab A500 has a 10.1 inch touchscreen that offers 1280x800-pixel resolution.
On the front you will also see a 2 megapixel camera for video calling. However, on the front you won't find any physical buttons.
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The normal home and back buttons of any Android gadget are supplanted by virtual buttons on screen. You can see the buttons in the lower left-hand angle of the screen.
The benefit of this placement is that if you shuffle in the middle of portrait and landscape orientations, the buttons are all the time on the lower left-hand side of the display.
There's someone else button at the lower left angle which gives access to all recently used apps.
On the back of the tablet you will see a 5 megapixel camera. The built ability of A500 gives a cheap feeling because they have in general used plastic.
There is an orientation lock key and volume adjustment key on the top edge of the tablet. The gadget also features a Micro Sd card slot, a Sim card slot, micro-Usb port and micro-Hdmi port.
On top of A500 is a headphone socket. The tablet is 13.3mm thick and weighs 765g. That means its 164g heavier than the iPad 2. The A500 runs on the Tegra 2 processor and has 1Gb of Ram.
Display and Camera
The 10.1-inch, 1280 x 800 Tft Lcd of A500 is a optic delight. someone else plus point of the display is its viewing angle.
You can position the tablet at any angle and still the readability remains very good. Though the readability reduces significantly under sun, it performs pretty well indoor conditions.
The 5 mega-pixel rear camera takes nice photos under a intriguing sky and front camera is just ok. But the main problem is that cameras lose the focus if you try to capture anyone away from it and produces blurry images. Despite the 720p Hd video capturing capability, the captured video ability is not good at all.
Software and Performance
Acer's Iconia Tab A500 runs on Android 3.0, a specially customized Os for the tablets and it truly works like a breeze.
A500 features a great browser with Flash support. You can open manifold tabs and multi-task. The Honeycomb on screen keyboard is a delight. It supports multi-touch, so you can touch type.
You can also hold down the shift key or whole key to get quick access to unavoidable characters. The Gmail client, music player, calendar, photo browser, chat and maps application works brilliantly.
The apps in the Android store for the Honeycomb devices are not so many and Google should look into this matter as the common Android apps can not apply the screen space of the tablets. The tablet runs on pair of 3260mAh batteries and offers approximately 7 hours of battery life.
Final Verdict
The unabridged execution of Iconia Tab A500 is good. But there are some negative points too. It's a very heavy tablet, battery life is minute poor, and compared to some tablets its price is bit high.
While Asus Eee Pad Transformer is priced at 0 with approximately the same facilities, A500 is priced at 0.
Acer Iconia Tab A500 Is a High Performance, Android Honeycomb Tablet