Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Iconia Tab A500 New PC Tablet from Acer
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The tablet's front is pleasingly minimal—there are no logos or buttons, only the 10.1-inch, 1280-by-800 LCD, and a small dot on the upper left side for the front-facing camera. The screen is just slightly higher than 720p resolution, but the omnipresent black bar at the bottom limits it right to 720p. It's a capacitive touch screen, and, in my tests, was extremely responsive to presses, pinches and swipes.
I only had one real issue, and it was the aspect ratio. A 16:9 display is nice when you're watching a movie or playing a game, but when trying to browse the Web in portrait mode, the screen is just too narrow—you need to surf in landscape.The Nvidia Tegra 2 processor is the chip of choice for powering Honeycomb slates: it's found in the A500, the Xoom, the G-Slate, and the Transformer. As such, its performance and test results are similar. In the PCMag Labs, we run a series of tests to determine tablet processing power—ranking everything from the tablet's ability to calculate Pi, to its graphics capabilities. The A500 is almost identical, performance-wise, to the very-speedy Xoom. Everything from loading Web pages to launching apps was extremely fast with the Iconia.
Running the latest version of Android, 3.0.1, the Iconia's UI looks pretty much the same here as on the other Honeycomb-powered tablets. For a deep dive into Honeycomb, read our full review. Generally speaking, though, Honeycomb does a lot of things well—notifications and multi-tasking in particular—but has some organizational and design flaws. Still, it's a giant step up from earlier non-tablet-specific Android versions we've seen on some tablets.
Acer doesn't change much about Honeycomb, except for a few icons on the home screen and the default background. When you turn on the A500 for the first time, you're greeted by four folders instead of app icons. You'll find eReading, Games, Multimedia, and Social with a few apps in each. You can add other apps to the folders to make them easier to find, or remove the folders entirely. Otherwise, though, you're looking at pure Honeycomb.
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