Acer Iconia Tab A100Gadget Review

Specs: Android 3.0, Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core CPU, 7-inch capacitive screen at 1024x600, 5MP rear-facing camera, 2MP front-facing camera, 3G.

What we think: The A100 is the little brother to the Acer Iconia Tab A500, and we have high hopes for it. While it doesn't have the high-flying specs of some of the other tablets on this page, we expect this 7-inch tablet to carry a more modest price.

Another Android 3.0 Honeycomb slate, this time it's Acer's 7-inch version, one of the few smaller-than-10-inch tablets we've seen at this year's Mobile World Congress alongside the
HTC Flyer.

There's the Dell Streak 7 and BlackBerry PlayBook, of course, but they were announced previously.

Pricing is still to be fixed, while the Acer Iconia Tab A100 UK release date is April 2011. Like it's bigger brother, the Acer Iconia Tab A500, this tablet has an Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core chip.

Acer has several extra apps on the device including Games Zone where you can find a variety of preloaded games, eReading, where you can download or read magazines and books and a Multimedia section.

Acer's clear.fi is also preloaded, its in-home media sharing app. The tablet also has Dolby Mobile on board.

There's also a 5 megapixel auto-focus rear camera and a 2 megapixel front-facing camera for video chat.

The 7-inch tablet has a rather high resolution display, with a 1024 x 600 resolution display. This matches the resolution on the BlackBerry PlayBook, which is impressive for such a compact display, as well as the newly-announced HTC Flyer.