14 DAY TRIAL // The tablet market can be a harsh place for emerging devices, but that only spurns companies towards doing their best to prepare prospective buyers for the arrival of their inventions, in this case, the Acer Iconia Tab A200.
The Iconia Tab A200 is one of those few slates that will actually try to be accessible, price-wise.
Or, at least, Acer will supposedly do its best to drive its price low enough for it to stand apart from all the $500-$600 products already out.
Alas, just what money people will be expected to meet is one of those tidbits that were kept under wraps and will stay like that for some time still (probably).
The formal announcement has not been made yet, but the company did let an official promo video find its way to the web.
Over the course of two minutes, there are glimpses of the variety of roles that the item will be able to fill in, like displaying e-books, playing videos, running games, etc.
Acer's electronic is powered by the NVIDIA Tegra 2 SoC (system-on-chip) ARM platform.
While not the Kal-El, Tegra 2 showed that it has a lot of horsepower of its own.
It had to; otherwise, it would not have ended up powering the majority of Android tablets.
Speaking of the operating system, the Acer Iconia Tab A200 will be loaded with either Android 3.x (Honeycomb) or Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).
Also, going ahead with the hardware list, the display has a resolution of 1,290 x 800 pixels (10 inch-wide, apparently), while Bluetooth 2.0 and WiFi bring wireless to the table (3G doesn;t seem to be in for now).
Furthermore, a USB port is part of the item as well, so there will definitely be possibilities for mounting external drives or plugging peripherals, like keyboards, though Acer will no doubt have keyboard docks on standby for that.
