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Acer announces its Iconia Tab A200 tablet
TAIWANESE PC MAKER Acer has announced its Iconia Tab A200, a cut down version of its existing tablet.
We expected the A200 to be a follow-on from the A100 tablet, but at 10.1in it's more of a sequel to the firm's A500 model. Strangely not much has changed in comparison with the A500 that Acer launched earlier this year.
The A200 has a specifications sheet similar to that of its predecessor with the same Nvidia 1GHz Tegra 2 processor, 1GB of RAM and a 2MP front facing camera. In other areas the tablet has been downgraded with only 8GB or 16GB of internal storage instead of 32GB and no rear facing camera.
With a newer model we expect the device to be thinner and lighter, which the A200 is. It is 0.9mm thinner at 12.4mm and 45g lighter at 720g than the A500, but this doesn't look good when you stand it up against tablets like the Asus Transformer Prime, which is just 8.3mm thin and weighs only 586g.
Acer said, "Ideal for sharing good times via gaming, e-books, movies, music, photography, social networking and more, this tablet is an amazing hub of activity for people of all ages, and it comes at a very affordable price."
The firm said that the tablet will come with Android 3.2 Honeycomb and that an upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich will arrive in January. The only reason for buying this rather unimpressive looking device that we can see is the "affordable price".
The A200 will offer eight hour battery life, a microSD card slot, WiFi and a full sized USB port. It's a bizarre effort from Acer that leaves us wondering how it will sell this. µ
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Dose or how can I get windows excel doc or windows 7 able to run on this tabley
Acer aconia a700: 1920x1200 resolution, 2gb ram, tegra 3. Release: q1 2012
Why would anyone buy this now? Sounds like they are targeting the uneducated ipad-weilding portion of the market.
http://www.androidfamily.net/2011/12/03/acer-releases-iconia-tab-a200-10-1-inch-tablet/
We pay for our toys. Cheaper is good.
Having said that, I've got an original-version Samsung Galaxy Tab with phone function. It cost a lot more, though.
Having sold off the A500 16GB here at AU$249 last month (I got 2) they have set some real expectations on what you can get at that price point The tablet is very good BTW and the USB master port is very useful - I currently have a USB hub plugged in and a keyboard and mouse plugged into that for using at my desk.
I think they will probably need to price this at around $200. It's essentially the same as the A500 but not as much storage, and Tegra-3 devices are starting to come out at around the US$500 mark.