Iconia

Acer announced on Friday that they are now updating the Acer Iconia Tab line of tablets with the latest version of Android 4.0 OS (Ice Cream Sandwich).

The update is being pushed to Acer Iconia Tab A200 customers over-the-air now in the United States and will be completed over the following week. The Acer Iconia Tab A100 7-inch tablet and Acer Iconia Tab A500 10-inch tablet will both be updated in April.

New features with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) include a faster browser, enhanced app and folder management options, more intuitive navigation, and a more polished, reimaged design. In addition, multitasking has been improved, along with improved integration with Gmail's email and calendar functions. Ice Cream Sandwich also improves the cameras zoom function and allows you to capture still photos while recording video.Read more

Acer is bringing its Iconia Tab to AT&T on September 18. The new Iconia Tab A501 is a 10.1-inch Android Honeycomb tablet that includes AT&T's 4G mobile broadband for super fast download/upload speeds and smooth video streaming.

The Iconia Tab A501 features a 10.1-inch touch-screen 1280x800 TFT WXGA display, a 5MP rear-facing camera with flash and auto-focus, and 2MP fixed-focused front-facing webcam. It is powered by a NVIDIA Tegra 2 mobile 1GHz dual-core processor and integrated GeForce GPU and weighs just 1.69 pounds. The tablets' HSPA+ technology with provides up to 4x faster data transmission. You can also access Wi-Fi networks via Acer InviLink Nplify 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi CERTIFIED wireless technology.

Connectivity options include an HDMI port for connection to an HDTV, a full size USB 2.0 port for hooking up peripherals, a Micro SDHC slot and micro USB port. It also comes with Acer clear.fi, which connects with any other DLNA-compliant device to share digital media. It automatically detects clear-fi-enabled devices on your wireless home network (smartphones, notebooks, HD media players, etc.) and gathers and organizes media files by type (video, music, photo, pre-recorded TV). Read more

Here's a deal for shoppers wanting Acer's Iconia tablet. Best Buy is giving customers a $100 Best Buy gift card with the purchase of a 16 GB Acer Iconia tablet. This is only through Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011, so you better act fast! The offer is valid online at BestBuy.com and at all Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile standalone stores.

Priced at $399.99, the Acer Iconia tablet runs Android 3.0 Honeycomb and features a 10.1-inch multi-touch screen, as well as the NVIDIA Tegra 2 mobile 1GHz dual-core processor and integrated GeForce GPU for HD gaming, 1080p video and faster browsing, as well as running multiple applications, digital media playback and flash-based sites, games and applications.

It offers 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN for wireless Internet connection, Bluetooth 2.1, a microSD card slot (card not included), 2.0MP webcam, 1GB DDR2 memory, and 16GB eMMC on-board memory. In addition, the Acer Iconia Tablet weighs only 1.7 lbs. and measures 0.5" thin.

For more information on this deal, visit www.bestbuy.com or www.bestbuy.com/tablets.

Acer just announced that its Iconia Tab A500 is now available for pre-order online exclusively from Best Buy. The Acer Iconia Tab A500 is the company's first 10.1-inch tablet running Android 3.0 (Honeycomb).

The new Acer Iconia Tab A500 tablet weighs only 1.69 pounds and is a mere 0.52-inch thin. It features a 10.1-inch multi-touch screen and comes packed with the NVIDIA Tegra 250 1GHz dual-core processor and integrated GeForce GPU for HD gaming, 1080p video and faster browsing, as well as running multiple apps and flash-based sites, games and applications. In fact, it comes with two games already on it - "Need for Speed: Shift" and "Let's Golf"!

It also includes forward and rear-facing cameras for capturing videos and photos as well as video conferencing. HD 720p video can be viewed on its 1280x800 TFT WXGA display 10.1-inch widescreen in a 16:10 aspect ratio. In addition, the Acer Iconia Tab A500 can be used as a media hub to share 1080p video via the HDMI port with other devices. Sound is good too, thanks to Dolby Mobile technology. Read more

Acer today announced that its dual-screen tablet, the Iconia-6120 Dual-Screen Touchbook is now available for pre-sale in North America. It is the world's first tablet to offer two touch-enabled 14-inch high-definition widescreen LED backlit LCDs. A cool feature of the dual-screen is that you can use your finger or a virtual keyboard and customize what is shown on each screen. Watch a video on the top and browse your multimedia library on the bottom one, or view a single web page across the two displays.

The Iconia-6120 Dual-Screen Touchbook features Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, an Intel Core i5 Processor with Intel Turbo Boost Technology, 4GB of memory, 640GB SATA hard drive, Intel HD graphics, Adobe Flash Player 10.1 support, and Dolby Advanced Audio v3 sound. Two 2.0 USB ports and an HDMI port are also included. Read more