Acer Iconia Tab A500 tablet launched by Acer has heating up competition in tablet market. After Motorola did with the Xoom (price range at $599-$799), LG and T-Mobile did with the G-Slate (price start from $629), and the legendary Apple iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G (price range at $699.00 - $829.00), Acer has done with cheaper price. On the market, Acer Iconia A500 price starts from only at $449. With its Acer Iconia A500 price, you will find Honeycomb based tablet supported by 1 GHz nVidia Tegra 2 Dual-Core processor on a big and bright screen. Acer has released Acer Iconia Tab A500 tablet on Wi-Fi-only model, so if you looking for 3G or 4G features, consider another tablet or wait until they launched new model with that features.

Nvidia Tegra 2 processor used by Acer Iconia Tab A500 is common processor found on Honeycomb based tablet. It's also used in Motorola Xoom, LG G-Slate, and Asus Transformer. So, comparing processor speed performance of these tablet resulting similar score. With 1 GHz nVidia Tegra 2 Dual-Core, opening web pages or launching application becomes so fast. Acer equipped its Iconia Tab A500 with Android 3.0.1 or commonly known as Honeycomb. It supports multi-tasking. Acer doesn't make much improvement on Honeycomb installed. They just change its default background and few icons on its home screen. Acer Iconia A500 launched with storage capacity at 16GB. But Acer promissed to released 32GB version soon.  

Acer Iconia Tab A500 LCD screen size is as large as 10.1-inch that can afford maximum resolution at 1280-by-800. Its screen is responsive to presses, pinches and swipes. Iconia Tab A500 comes with solid construction. Its frame is all around black with silver brushed aluminum at above and below the screen, and at back panel. Iconia Tab A500 dimension is at 10.25 x  7.0 x 0.56 inches. With those size and by materials used, it weighs at 1.65 pounds. Its battery life claimed to be run up to 10 hours for web browsing and on video playback it can run up to 5 hours and 7 minutes.

Acer Iconia A500 back panel used to placed Acer logo, camera with flash, and stereo speakers. At the bottom part, you will find connector for docking the A500. While on top, it's place for volume control and microSD card slot. The right and left side provides standard and micro-USB ports, a Reset button, AC adapter port, headphone jack, and a micro-HDMI port. Connection supported by 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR.