Acer's Turn to Challenge the Apple iPad

It seems that every month we are getting news about the next iPad challenger.  Taiwan based computer company Acer is this month's latest Apple iPad challenger.  The Acer Iconia Tab A500 is the latest tablet to be released and challenge the current bestselling iPad.

The Acer Iconia Tab is powered by a dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor which makes it powerful enough to play more sophisticated games.  Spreadsheets and word processors shouldn't be a problem also with this kind of power under the hood.

The Iconia Tab is equipped with and HD optimized graphics card also from NVIDIA, the NVIDIA GeForce GPU.  One main advantage of the Iconia Tab over the iPad 2 is that it supports Flash.  All these can be viewed on the 10.1" multi-touch screen, almost the same as the iPad 2.

Running the applications on the Iconia Tab will be Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb and will be controlled by Acer's very own simplified user interface.  Hopefully, Acer will be able to deliver on this user interface since most of the Android powered devices are quite complex to use compared to the very simple and elegant interface of the Apple iOS.


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