Acer Iconia Tab A500-10S16u 10.1-Inch Tablet Computer (Aluminum Metallic)
I bought this week, with more brick and mortar store near me. I have a tablet with a quick way to get and just use it instead of having to wake up / start my computer. I use it for most of my web browsing now, when I was home, and I also use the tablet to work and for listening to music through Bluetooth (works perfectly with sound. Hear my SONY DR-BT50 ).
DVI to HDMI.
I bought an HDMI cable to the tablet and the work is to be feared. When you connect the HDMI cable, start the display and sound through the TV speakers as expected. I noticed that, since the resolution is 1280x800 on the A500 is to crop the top and bottom when it is connected to the TV, turn it on my 720p (1280x720), this is to think a little 'because I could. Share videos and other content quickly and easily with a tablet, a laptop with me, is not likely to work as well.
Sound and display.
The tablet is a good thing I was a bit 'surprised me for such a small thing to have great sound. I'm not saying I want to listen to my music through the speakers, headphones are great for this. But for music or video to share with the people around you, it works pretty well. The display is fine, but I think the color and brightness. It seems that my phone (phone Galaxy S) angle very easily, and share with the people sitting next to you.
Applications and software.
I like Honeycomb (Android 3), G-mail client is much better as a browser. But it is a bit 'over the weak. I plan on using this to replace a laptop to surf the web while moving around the house, and it is good for this. But I can not tell if the browser is only as fast as a laptop on the same network, so I thought it might be a bit 'underpowered compared. Most sites with a full load and a mobile site. (For some reason I have always been mobile ... grrrr), and that makes it a very good experience. The keyboard on the screen is ok, I'm used to using Swype on the phone that I'm missing on A500, but I tried to install other applications on the market for robots that I have. load a lot of applications that are not compressed and they seem to work well for me. With most of them are good. (Including an angry bird, a large screen 10.1 "). I chose to release only some tablets and they work just as well.
Hardware
On the whole, the tablet seems to have seen that I have noticed slowdowns or if used regularly, even if I did not have the video noise when you try to use a resolution of 720p video on You Tube while connected. I have not tried HDMI again. But I feel that is simply too much for a tablet. In any case, I love the HDMI port and mini USB for data transfer on a keyboard and a USB disk or flash.
WIFI.
The WiFi signal strength, the work does not seem as good as the laptop normally. It 's about the same whether or not my phone, I have a Galaxy S is sitting at 10 meters from the router, I kept losing the signal. But after a reboot everything seemed to work fine, I still A500 WiFi connected to my phone and that worked great. Basically, just turn the WiFi on your phone and the A500 is that it connects immediately. The only bad thing is that it sucks the phone battery quickly. They are now in the field. (Unfortunately, only the E: (not 3G) and it makes traveling much better than trying to use my phone as I had in the past for e-mail and catching up on reading.
Now for Downers ....
So I said, there are a couple of problems and they will all be fixed with software updates before I got a lot of time in the market when I bought A500 is locked when you had to download some. certain things. Do not erase your data. Installation (again) and I had the same problem. I realized that I had clicked on the update for Google Maps, when first loaded, and after another until dry before going to the market and must accept the agreement and then everything works fine. Then click on the icon and market conditions.
* Edit * - What is annoying is that the screen continues to pop the tablet is not in use. I read in some forum that if you turn off WiFi or a tablet is in airplane mode to stop doing this. It seems that when you try to update the information on the background screen. This is a minor annoyance. It allows the screen to wake up and it sucks the battery.
I also have a prison that I had to press the power button is turned off and then on again. The browser will not load after clicking on the link in Google Reader app, I have to reboot to get this fixed.
All
I like the tablet, and I think the problems I mentioned above will be fixed by software updates as they become more mature G1 phone when it first came out and was pretty much a mess when I started. As software updates are ready to work much better. Using a tablet instead of a laptop, it works pretty well for web browsing and watching videos and the like, although it may use more energy in your browser. Better battery life on my phone. And do not tell you much. I like the ability to offer (such as USB ports and HDMI), and the screen resolution, which is why I bought this Asus on the transformer (the port for port, USB), and was much cheaper Xoom (Verizon or WiFi. ) or G-Slate (T-Mobile) or iPad2 I was more interested in Tablet Android and iPhone OS tablet because I spent a lot of use of Google (Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Reader,. etc.) and work better than they seem on the IOS Android, it is. More convenient for me. I bet that within 3-6 months, I have to go to a review to 5 stars, but a software problem they have now, I just can not do it, even if you do not get rid of the A500.
