Tag: iconia

• Acer Iconia A500 Ice Cream Sandwich Sleep of Death

  Per the title… I was thrilled to see the Ice Cream Sandwich update for my Google Android tablet coming across the wires. It’s good to know your tablet is supported by the latest incarnation of the Android software. However, since the upgrade, the sleep of death has returned. I suffered with this when I first bought the…

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  17 May 2012

  hardware

  A500, acer, android, google, ice, ice cream sandwich, iconia, sleep of death, SOD

• Acer Iconia A500 – main camera

  So… five megapixels… lots more than the iPad2. But is it any good? Well, it’s ok. Not a patch on my Canon 7D dslr, but then it only cost about half what I paid for the lens on the camera, much less than the camera itself. Shooting takes about a second, as the software whizzes…

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  7 May 2011

  hardware

  A500, acer, android, camera, google, iconia, tablet

• Acer Iconia A500 android 3.0 tablet

  I resisted the lure of the iPad, but started to see reasons for carrying a tablet around rather than my iPod Touch. The iPod held my diary and most of the apps I needed for work, but the small screen and tiny ‘keyboard’ were a problem for my fading eyesight and fat fingers. I spent…

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  2 May 2011

  hardware

  A5000, acer, android, google, iconia, tablet