It was nine months - nine months! - Since Acer announced that it first entered the game compressed, with a promise of two 7 - and 10-inch boards. Well, the 10-inch Tab Iconia A500 was on stage for several months, but so far we have been tapping our feet impatiently waiting for the other tab in the fall. Acer came out and said he would not be here until the second half of the year, and while we had heard rumors that he would arrive in September and was delayed due to " Honeycomb compatibility issues. "
Well, the people, a few years later the dog is finally here. Say hello to the Acer Iconia Card A100, the company's first 7-inch tablet, and the first 7-inch tablet to run the Android 3.2. Unlike the operating system, the data are fairly standard: Tegra SoC two, five and two-megapixel camera, and micro-micro-USB and HDMI ports. And rejoice, geeks, because it is a honeycomb vanilla uploaded there - you can not find custom skins, or intellectual property rights widget clogging Home screens. They promise so much as the vital organs of these geeks can, however, Acer is a clear film is a mainstream consumers ("VAT", among other things, the press release). We are not sure how valuable you think your mother behind the model, but it is likely that you will appreciate a good deal for the 8 GB version costs $ 329.99, the number of tires from 16 GB to $ 349.99 a reasonable lower 16GB HTC Flyer to $ 150
But because of its more e-reader-like shape, it feels deceptively lighter than the Flyer. At 4.6 inches tall, it's narrower in portrait mode, making it that much easier to cradle with two hands and pound out emails using both thumbs. But with a width of 7.68 inches, it stretches farther in landscape mode, which means, conversely, that depending on the size of your hands, you might feel a bit more of a stretch in your fingers while tapping onscreen objects. Also, the bezel is bigger on the two short sides, which means if you're holding the A100 in landscape mode, you'll have more blank space flanking the display than if you held it in portrait.
Aesthetically, the A100 seems to take some design cues from laptops -- some slightly outdated ones, at that. The back cover has a navy finish with a pattern of thin, golden ribbons stretching from edge to edge. The back side is also stamped with Acer's logo, though we think it might have looked more elegant without it. There's also the five megapixel main camera on the back, along with an LED flash next to it.
