Acer Iconia Tab A101 Review
Acer Iconia Tab A101 comes in two color choices trendy blue and cherry red. Acer Iconia Tab 101 offers a compact and stylish impression to the users. On the back of the body, Acer puts its logo written horizontally. While under the screen area there is only one capacitive touch home button.
If you use the Acer Iconia Tab A101 in a vertical position, you will see a reset button, two speakers, microUSB port, charger port and HDMI port on the bottom. While perched on the top of the microphone hole, 3.5mm audio port and power button. On the right body rotation there is a button lock, microSD memory card slot and SIM card.
Acer Iconia Tab A101
Acer Iconia Tab A101 Dual-core Processor 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9, ULP GeForce GPU, 2 T20?s Tegra chipset, 8GB Internal Storage (User Available: 5 GB), 1GB RAM, MicroSD up to 32GB, 1530mAh Li-Ion Battery x 2. To support its performance in running applications, the Acer Iconia Tab A101 has been using dual-brained processor with 1GHz speed respectively. To offset that carried the processor clock, do not forget to pin Acer 1GB of RAM memory. As for the affairs of storage, Acer Iconia Tab 101 is equipped with roomy enough memory to hold a job or a multimedia file in your possession. If you are not satisfied with 5GB of storage capacity it has, you can expand it by inserting a microSD card.
Too bad the batteries used to supply power running Tabs in a variety of functions is relatively small. So if you use a tablet with the maximum brightness setting, Acer Iconia Tab A101 could only last a few hours.
Armed with Honeycomb Android OS which is optimized for the tablet, Acer Iconia Tab 101 comes with a standard interface that divides the honeycomb homescreen in five pages. The fifth page you can fill in with widgets, application shortcuts, wallpaper, etc. as needed. For display, the Acer Iconia Tab A101 has a wide screen 7 “TFT LCD 600 x 1024 pixels (~ 170 ppi), 262K colors, Notification Area, and so on.
To open the Notification Area, you can simply tap the right lower corner of the tablet so that in addition to checking the sms, email or info update applications installed, you can also go to settings thanks to the shortcut that has been provided. As with other Honycomb Tablet, button bar comes in three distinct functions, namely back, home, and recent apps. Unfortunately, Acer has not equip Acer Iconia Tab A101 with the screen capture as in products such as Galaxy Tab. While to search, you can use the virtual buttons on the top right corner.
Acer Iconia Tab A101 has a 5MP 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash and front camera is 2MP. To support the perpetuation of the image, equip Acer Iconia Tab A101 with a 5 megapixel autofocus camera that has been equipped with flash for taking pictures in a dark room. A myriad of additional settings such as zoom, flash mode, white balance, color effects, scene modes, store location, focus mode, exposure, picture size, picture quality has also been provided in full by Acer.
In the communications sector, Acer Iconia Tab A101 can only send sms, but without the ability to make calls. It is therefore natural that in the sales package, Acer does not include handsfree cable as an accessory luggage. Embedded contact list consists of two panels, namely the right panel that displays the contact name as well as the left panel that contains the contact details like phone numbers, mobile, email, address and so on. While to send a sms, there are two panels on the left side that displays text and contact details of the contents of messages that appear on the right side of the threaded mode.
Benchmark test results of Acer Iconia Tab A101 using Antutu Benchmark managed to get a score of 4980, ahead of Amazon Kindle Fire and only narrowly lost to LG Optimus 2X. While the acquisition of benchmark scores collected by Quadrant Standard Edition is 1580.
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