Acer Iconia TAB A500 16GB Tablet

Features

The 10.1-inch A500 is a thing of beauty and makes a striking first impression. It’s slender at 765 gm. The A500’s tapered edges help emphasise the feeling of slenderness. The A500 is designed for smaller and lighter travel companion, it utilizes an aluminium shell with your standard tablet design but hiding a few surprises. Holding it in portrait mode you’ve got the power button and headphone jack across the top right, with volume buttons and a rotate lock switch down the right side. Below this is a plastic cover which comes away to reveal the microSD card slot.


Across the top left you’ve got a micro-HDMI slot - the first indication that the A500 has a few impressive tricks up its sleeve. Halfway down the left side you’ll discover a docking port, which works with the optional charge cradle. Across the bottom edge you’ll find a USB2.0 slot (host), a micro-USB connector (slave). Finally you’ll find a 2 MP camera on the front of the A500, accompanied by 5 MP camera at the back with an LED flash. Also on the back are two speakers. You won't find dedicated home, menu, back and search buttons for navigating the menus, as these are all onscreen buttons - which makes sense considering the tablet is designed to be used in both portrait and landscape mode.



The A500 sports an NVIDIA Tegra 250 dual-core processor accompanied by 1GB of RAM - You’ll also find 16GB or 32GB of storage. Fire up the A500 and you’re immediately struck by the bright, crisp screen. The tablet boasts a 1280x800 resolution with a 16:10 aspect ratio. The A500 utilises an LCD TFT display with an 80-degree wide viewing angle. The A500’s LCD screen doesn’t suffer the blue tinge that you find on many of the AMOLED displays, The A500 also has wider viewing angles, tilting the tablet loses the stripes.

Designed to maximize content enjoyment, providing the same rich multimedia, gaming and Web experience you can enjoy on your home PC with the added user-friendliness of the 10.1” multi-touch screen.


The combination of power from the dual-core NVIDIA® Tegra™ 2 CPU and HD-optimized graphics from the ultra-low power NVIDIA® GeForce® GPU with Flash 10.2 support delivers an entertainment experience that has to be seen to be believed.

Get ready for a whole new world of entertainment, information and connectivity at your fingertips. Just one touch of the latest, highly-intuitive Google Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” operating system combined with Acer's simplified user interface and you'll soon discover your fingers can take you further that you ever thought possible.

Keep your social life under complete control with SocialJogger, Acer's ultra-social application that shows live updates from your Facebook®, YouTube® and Flickr® contacts on the same page, allowing you to follow, comment and share content with your friends from a single screen

The 10.1” high-resolution multi-touch screen and ultra-sensitive gyro meter makes the Acer ICONIA TAB A500 a formidable gaming platform with premium HD arcade games and complex online 3D games running so fast and with so much detail they almost leap out of the screen!

Technical Specifications