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Acer ICONIA TAB A500 10.1-inch LED Tablet (nVidia Tegra 2 Dual cortex A9, 1GB RAM, 16GB SSD, WiFi, Bluetooth, Webcam, Android 3.0 Honeycomb, up to 8+ hrs Battery Life)

by Acer
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

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Technical Details
BrandAcer
Item Weight767 g
Product Dimensions17.7 x 26 x 1.3 cm
Batteries:1 Nonstandard Battery batteries required. (included)
Item model numberXE.H60EN.010
Screen Size10.1 inches
Processor BrandIntel
Processor TypeNone
Processor Speed1 GHz
RAM Size1 GB
Computer Memory TypeDDR2 SDRAM
Graphics Card Descriptionintegrated
Graphics RAM TypeDDR2 SDRAM
Wireless Type802.11B, 802.11G, 802.11n
Wattage18 watts
Operating SystemNone
Lithium Battery Energy Content3260 milliamp_hours
  
Additional Information
ASINB00561B3J0
Best Sellers Rank 35,594 in Computers & Accessories (See top 100)
Shipping Weight1.5 Kg
Date First Available9 Jun 2011
  
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Sleek, smart and full of innovative features, the ICONIA Tab A500 is equipped with the latest, highly intuitive Google Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” operating system, the new version of the Android platform specifically optimised for tablets, combined with Acer UI to reach a whole new level of interactivity. What’s more, the Acer clear.fi media sharing system will be preloaded on the device for seamless integration in the home clear.fi environment to easily access, play and share multimedia across the home network and to instantly publish updates to social media networks. Designed for rich multimedia entertainment, this tablet comes with a high resolution, high colour contrast 10.1” display with wide viewing angle providing higher colour accuracy for better visuals from different perspective, allowing users to play or share HD video with friends on the go. Complete with a built-in HDMI port and 1080p output, it may also be used to enjoy HD content in full HD on a big screen TV or monitor. The 10.1” full capacitive multi-touch screen ensures an optimal on-screen experience from every angle.

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Smaller than a magazine, the ICONIA TAB A Series sports a 10.1 inch widescreen display with smart divisions that open up new possibilities for interaction. It runs on the tablet-tailored Android Honeycomb 3.0 operating system, and weighs less than 1 kg so it's easy to use and great for carrying. Enjoy a whole new touch experience....
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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars I love it! 6 July 2011
By Simon Bailey
Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a great bit of kit. Works a treat. Looked at a lot of tablets before deciding on this one. Great screen lots of ports,very fast and a working SD card. Decided to get the 16Gb version as I thought the 32Gb a little expensive. Installed lots of apps and HD games and still only used 4Gb. You can put all your movies, music and photos on the SD card to save main memory space. Web brower is brillant, now I don't need to get off the sette to surf the internet. I have had a few crashes but that's the Android OS not the tablets fault.

It is a liitle on the heavy side but not too bad. But pretty much all tablets are the same. Except the new Samsumg tab but that doesn't have an SD card card slot!

Doesn't play DIVX movies out the box but downloaded Rockplayer and movies play a treat and look pretty good. The Acer apps that come pre installed and mostly pointless. A visit to the the app store soon replaces them with better apps.

An update to Android is coming very soon to upgrade the tablet to 3.1 which is more stable and faster. You can download the update but going to wait till it comes as on over air update.

On the whole I would heartily recommend this tablet over the current ones available. Get one you will love it!
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent machine 27 July 2011
By Sandie
Amazon Verified Purchase
We bought this as a gift for our 18 year old son and its a brilliant piece of kit. I have the ipad and this machine does a lor more than the ipad!
Speedy delivery and well packaged, would definitely recommend!
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Forget the iPad Buy this 4 Aug 2011
By Mr. Stephen F. Male
Amazon Verified Purchase
I have had this for about a month now and, as a unit, surpasses all my expectations.

However:

I got a unit with Android 3.0 and the unit promptly informed me of an OS update, so far so good! However while it would download circa 350Mb it wouldn't instal. I tried this around 5 times same result. Calling ACER tech support was less than useless. The techie told me they didn't support Android only the hardware (how can that be?) but could transfer me to a premium rate line for Android support - I was not amused and told him that was unacceptable (or words to that effect) and hung up.

I then restored all factory defaults and tried again, same result. I was just about to send it back to Amazon for a refund then get one with an up to date OS (Android 3.1) and I thought one more time. and it worked - go figure.

This apart though the Iconia A500 is a great unit and well worth the investment.

So the Acer Iconia A500 12 out of 10. Acer support for Android, -5 out of 10.

I hope someone from ACER monitors these reviews and gets something done because they make great kit and then spoil it in this dumb way. I say this as the an owner of 3 ACER laptops (in the family) and very well pleased with their kit. This was the first time I used their Tech Support.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Nice screen and build quality, but poor wifi, locked down, and lots of bloatware 26 Sep 2011
By Andreas Kaempf
Amazon Verified Purchase
I've only had this for a few days, but have found the wireless reception to be very weak, so it doesn't stay online in areas of my house that have good reception on our Mac minis or Asus EEE netbooks. Apparently, this is caused by the auto-update to Android 3.2, but should be fixed.

The other problem is the large number of intrusive and unwanted programs (excess media players and games), which seem to start up on their own even if you don't use them, and which cannot be uninstalled. One of these, a media player with a blue screen and three big icons for movies, photos, and music, wakes up quite often and takes over the device, even if you are not playing any music or videos. To make the tablet usable, you have to go to the system screen to kill these each time I start up the tablet, very annoying.

Why does Acer have to impose their bloated software on your computer, without giving you the option to remove them?

Finally, it's very locked-down, meaning that you can't really install programs outside of the app store paradigm. It's not really a computer, just a media consumption device. This is probably an issue with Android rather than Acer, but it's a disappointment.

The tablet is also a bit heavier than I expected, but otherwise okay as these tablets go. I wish I'd tried out the Asus Transformer or Galaxy before buying, however.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars simply the best!!!!!!!!!! 21 Oct 2011
By kidney24
having owned a flytouch and a witstech a81e, this tablet with tegra2 and honeycomb is as they say,it`s simply the best. it`s fast and always connects to wifi first time.
not a lot of programs yet but any that i used on my earlier tablets work work very well with this one. i also own an acer all in one pc which has clear fi loaded onto it and i can stream media from that to my acer iconia anywhere in the house (not used it yet). the sound from this device is the best i have ever heard from an android tablet. having bought 2 clones one from merrimobiles and one from ebay (which are still working but i have not got round to selling them yet) are good android tabets but i wanted something more main stream and decided on the acer iconia............kidney24
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Better than a laptop? 7 Nov 2011
By M. J. Wishart
I bought this after reading many reviews, it was noted that cheaper tablets had outdated operating system, Android 3.0 is essential.
Great fun using a new operating system, getting into the world of free apps is brilliant, my Acer easily outperforms my laptop for radio listening, using the same wifi connection, picture quality and sound is superior to my laptop, battery life is excellent.
Altogether a first class piece of kit.
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