Google has rolled out Honeycomb as an answer to iOSes dominance (with the iPad) in the tablet space. 9 months and 15 million iPads alter we saw the first Honeycomb device, the Motorola Xoom at CES 2011 and it sure looked promising. Since then the tablet race has officially begun. Every other company making a tablet has a Honeycomb promise to go along with it and the latest to go on sale is the Acer Iconia. Not to be mistaken with the Iconia notebook that Ballmer showed during the Microsoft’s keynote at CES, this is the Iconia A500 tablet that Acer has just thrown out.
Acer Iconia goes on sale for $450 @ Best Buy and that seems to be its biggest claim to fame. Undercutting the iPad 2 by a full $49. Iconia is a 10.1″ screen (1280×768) powered by Nvidia’s Tegra 2 chip (also supporting HDMI out). Acer also managed to pack in a 1GB RAM and 16GB internal storage in the base version, thats sure impressive package for a $450 tablet. But the hardware is only this good without a compelling software to make full use of the same. At this point many Android tablet makers are sure hoping that HP licenses its WebOS to them (if not iOS by Apple :P).
We would wait for the Iconia to land in our office before juding its fate. But we aren’t very impressed and our reasons of the same are more soft than hard!
