Acer Iconia Tab A200 – Preview
Acer has released details of their eagerly-awaited Iconia Tab A200 slate.
It will ship later in December running Android 3.2 Honeycomb, but has promised a firmware update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in January.
All in all it’s quite similar to the Acer Iconia A500, though the shell has been redesigned and is available in either red or gray. The Iconia Tab 200 stretches the tape at 10.2 x 6.9 x 0.5 inches, and at 1.6 pounds it weighs slightly less than the A500.
A200 features a 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 pixel screen and is powered by a 1GHz NVidia Tegra 2 dual-core CPU, helped out by 1GB of RAM and a choice of 8GB or 16GB storage space.
Acer claim the 3260mAh battery will give “up to” 8 hours of video looping, so we’ll wait and see how it measures up.
A200 tablet offers a front-facing 2MP camera, but there is no camera around the back. Connectivity wil come via WiFi-n or Bluetooth 2.1, and there’s a microSD card slot so you can add to the onboard storage.
No news on the price just yet, but it will be pitched at the budget price point. And before anyone mutters ‘that’s pretty average spec nowadays’, Acer has announced plans to launch a premium tablet with NVidia new quad-core Tegra 3 CPU sometime in 2012.
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