Acer Iconia Tab A500: Android Honeycomb Tablet

Honeycomb is an operating system designed by Google to work on devices with large screens. Honeycomb is also known as Android 3.0 .. Acer launched a new tablet device. The name of the tablet is Acer Iconia Tab A500. The tablet is already using the operating system that came out after Honeycomb Gingerbread! Naming of the Android operating system follows the alphabet and the name of food.

The tablet has a high level of responsiveness thanks to the System on Chip employed, the NVIDIA Tegra 2250. SoC uses high-speed dual-core processor, the ARM Cortex A9, with a speed of 1 GHz. Has relieved internal storage space of 16 GB, For RAM, Acer pair of extra large capacity memory in this tablet, 1 GB. Dimensions owned this tablet is 260 x 177 x 13 mm and weighs approximately 730 grams.

Besides the attractive specs, Acer pair three 3D games to its users. Games that are installed by default is the Need For Speed​​, Hero of Sparta, and Let 's Golf. All three games will certainly be able to fill the boredom of its users.

Acer has previously issued several smartphones that use the Android operating system. Therefore, Acer already has experience in concocting an Android device. This is evident through the Acer tablet Iconia A500 which has been using Honeycomb.

With the Android Market and NVIDIA TegraZone, users Iconia A500 will not run out of applications to be downloaded. There are still many applications and games that can be downloaded free of charge. Unfortunately, most 3D games available on the Market and TegraZone require that you pay.

Acer Iconia Tab A500 is not glued to the professional market only. One tablet is suitable for anyone. The professionals of course be helped by the functions in it such as Office, Gmail, and others. For the individual, you can use the multimedia capabilities, ranging from listening to music, watch videos, take pictures, to make it as a photo album. If there are less applications, the Android Market ready to provide free and paid applications to you.

Pros:
+ Honeycomb
+ Tegra
+ High Performance
+ Multitasking

Disadvantages:
- No function GSM/3G
- No 1080p support

Technical Data
NVIDIA Tegra processors with ARM Cortex A9 Dual Core 1 GHz
Video Format XviD, MPEG4, H.264, and H.263
Audio Format MP3, WMA, MP4, AMR, OGG, AAC, AAC +, and WAV
Image formats JPG, BMP, PNG
Subtitles Do not support
5 MP Camera (Rear), 2 MP (Home)
MicroUSB interface, microHDMI, USB 2.0
Wi-Fi wireless connection (802.11 b / g / n), Bluetooth 2.1 EDR
Dimensions and Weight 260 x 177 x 13 mm / 730 grams
589 Minutes Battery Life
Manufacturer Acer
Website http://www.acer.com
Price USD 5.09 million

All in all, the Acer Iconia Tab A500 is a solid piece of hardware, if you have to have an Android tablet right now. Honestly, we're still slightly iffy about Honeycomb itself, and the longevity of the Tegra 2 processor, given the lack of Android 3.0 apps and speed at which OEMs are adopting faster and more efficient silicon respectively.

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Blackberry Playbook: First Tablet from RIM

Tablet computer lately become a trend since Apple launched its tablet computer called the iPad. iPad is launched by using the maturity owned by the iPhone. It makes iPad is a tablet which first launched and instantly have many applications.

After that, popping up a lot of tablets with different operating systems. Android from Google is one of the operating system of choice for tablet computers. In addition to Android, of course, the giant operating system, Microsoft was first showcased his tablet computer from the Windows XP era until now, Windows 7. However, most tablets that use the Windows operating system has a short life time. This relates to the x86 processors that are still consuming more power than the ARM processor.

Seeing the success of the tablet market, the company that makes smartphones are still loved to date in Indonesia, namely Research In Motion or RIM, also do not want to miss to try his luck. Blackberry manufacturer is also issued its first flagship tablet called Playbook. Playbook itself using the new operating system anyway, which is made by QNX Software Systems QNX company that has also been acquired by RIM.

Blackberry Playbook has an internal storage capacity of 64 GB. In the American market, the Blackberry Playbook with capacity priced at $ 699. Playbook is designed by RIM to use the System On Chip (SoC) from Texas Instruments (TI) OMAP 4430. Same with the NVIDIA Tegra 2, this SoC ARM Cortex A9 processors using dual-headed with a speed of up to 1 GHz. For the graphics, TI OMAP 4430 uses graphics from Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX 540 which has approximately the same computing performance with Tegra 2. No lag, memory installed has a capacity of 1 GB.

Interestingly, the SoC embedded in this Playbook has a chipset itself is capable of playing video with 1080p resolution. This makes the TI OMAP 4430 SoC is more powerful than the Tegra 2.

Blackberry Playbook has a thickness that is thinner than the iPad, although the fractional variance. Blackberry Playbook has the thickness of 10 mm, while the iPad has a thickness of 13.4 mm. You should try it soon.

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