14 DAY TRIAL // Almost a week later than it was originally expected, Acer has started selling the Iconia Tab A200 Android Honeycomb tablet in the US, the 16GB model just being added by BestBuy to its online store where it retails for $349.99 (roughly 271 EUR).
The A200 was actually expected to arrive in the US on January 15 according to Acer, but it seems like the company run into some sort of distribution problems.
When it announced the Iconia Tab A200 at the beginning of this year, Acer said that the tablet will be available in two colorways, one being the metallic grey version that Best Buy listed on its Website, while the other will come with a red back.
No matter the color one goes for, the specifications of the tablet are the same, at its heart standing an Nvidia Tegra 2 system-on-a-chip (SoC) device featuring dual processing cores at 1GHz, which is accompanied by 1GB of RAM.
Outside of the on-board storage, the tablet also comes with an additional microSD card slot which can be used to extend the total data storage capacity to 32GB, as Andronica reveals.
Battery life is tipped at a maximum of eight hours, while for video conferencing duties Acer has also installed a front-facing 2MP camera (the A200 comes without a rear snapper).
All these are packed inside a case that weights 700g (1.54 pounds), while the 10.1-inch display that Acer has used for this tablet has a native resolution of 1280x800 pixels.
As far as software is concerned, the tablet comes pre-installed with the 3.2 version of the Android OS, also known as Honeycomb, which is paired together with a couple of Acer specific apps, but sometime in the future the slate will also receive an Android 4.0 update.
The 8GB version of the Iconia Tab A200 wasn’t spotted online until now, but it should carry a $329.99 (roughly 257 EUR) price tag.