Acer said its Iconia Tab A200 tablet are going to be offered on Jan. fifteen and be upgradable to Android 4.0, Google's latest OS for tablets and smartphones.
The tablet contains a 10.1-inch screen and is priced from US$ 329. A free upgrade to Android 4.0, additionally referred to as Ice Cream Sandwich, are going to be offered in mid-February; the tablet can initially accompany the newest version of Android 3, Honeycomb.
The tablet, meant for applications like video, gaming, social networking and net browsing, can ship 1st within the U.S., however ought to be offered within the remainder of the globe fairly soon, an Acer spokeswoman said.
The tablet was announced sooner than the patron Electronics Show, which can be held in Las Vegas from Jan. 10 to Jan. 13. Acer is anticipated to announce tablets and ultrabooks at a press conference sooner than the show. With the slowdown within the computer market, Acer is focusing a lot of on tablets because it tries to catch up with rivals Apple and Amazon, that lead the tablet market.
The Iconia Tab A200 includes a dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, that pales in overall performance compared to Nvidia's latest quad-core Tegra 3 processor, that is in Asus' Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet. however the dual-core processor is ready to produce the performance necessary for high-definition video and alternative tablet applications.
The tablet weighs 1.5 pounds (0.68 kilograms) and provides a battery lifetime of concerning eight hours, Acer said. The show will show pictures at 1280-by-800 pixel resolution, and users are ready to stream high-definition video from the Netflix movie service.
The tablet includes a 2-megapixel camera, 1GB of memory, one USB port one micro-USB port and wireless capabilities together with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
