The Acer Iconia A500 is a popular tablet which offers the consumer an impressive feature rich unit which is backed up by a dual core 1 GHz processor and version 3.0 of the android operating system, otherwise known as honeycomb. It is an impressive viewed in many ways, and has dimensions of 260 mm x 177 mm wide was being 13 mm thick and weighing 730 g in weight.

The tablet comes with a 10.1 inch LCD capacitive display screen which provides excellent touch screen functionality, and utilises the Acer user interface as its primary means of navigation around the various functions and features. The screen operates at 800 x 1280 pixels and is able to accurately display up to 256,000 colours ensuring excellent image display capabilities. In addition the tablet comes with accelerometer, gyro and proximity sensors for the automation of a variety of tasks such as automatic shutdown and image aspect orientation.

The tablet comes with stereo speakers, a 3.5 mm jack as well as a micro-SD card slot, which provides the means to enhance the available memory capacity of the unit, up to a more substantial 32 GB. The unit also provides Bluetooth, version 2.1 which comes with A2DP, as well as version 2.0 of micro-USB connectivity. Internet access is provided by the Wi Fi option, which provides the means to access available hotspots with ease.

The unit comes with additional functionality which includes a 5.0 megapixel camera, with a secondary 2.0 megapixel camera included as standard, in addition to a variety of games, a document viewer, organiser as well as an array of Google related features which include Gmail, YouTube and Google talk. In addition an MP4/MP3 multimedia player is incorporated within the unit which is able to play a wide selection of file formats, whilst the all important Adobe Flash player 10.1 is also included as is predictive text input functionality.

The Acer Iconia A500 like the Huawei S7 tablet faces stiff competition, however it manages to provide an emphatically functional and stylish tablet, which no doubt will become a popular choice for the consumer.

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