Acer - Iconia Tab A700 Series Tablet with 32GB Memory - Black

After a lot of research online & hands on trials with friends tablets & demo models in stores, I chose the A700 over the IPad & other Android tablets. I knew I would be using it both at work and at home so I looked for the best of both worlds. The features that made the A700 my choice were: HD display - not necessary for work but great for gaming & movies. USB - Great for work & home. Battery life - I know it will vary depending on what is being done but I can usually go all day at work without having to recharge and have several days at home with 6+ hours of continuous game play without recharging. Memory - Plenty of built in memory with the added benefit SD memory being possible. The only thing that I was not completely happy with is the placement of the power/USB port on the bottom of the tablet (landscape mode). The placement makes it difficult to charge or use the USB cable at times.

Alright, lets talk the facts about this tablet and dispel some myths while we are at it. I purchased an Asus tf700 and returned it then got the acer a700 and am keeping it. I also played for a couple of hours with the samsung galaxy note and was in a hurry to get away from it. My feedback for all is below - surely there will be disagreements with my assessment so take it or leave it. The Asus TF700 (Infinity) Pros: Great crisp screen, very lightweight, very thin, great perfomrance and battery life, Very delicate device. Cons: worst speaker ever on a $450 tablet - specially when this is a media consumption device.. go figure, charging plug/port proprietary and is very loose compared to the iPad or Samsung Note. Very easy to bend the wrong way. And bending it the wrong way can pop up the glass and bend the very thin film of aluminium by the charging port - lousy design and execution The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1: Pros: Great speakers, Pen Cons: Slow compared to others for a device with 2 GB Ram, tons of BLOATWARE installed. S Pen software just not ready for primetime. Did I mention the tons of skin/bloatware on the tablet.. Great product.. get rid of the UI overlay on android.. Proprietary charging port Acer A700 Pros: Great speakers, Screen, fast, standard ports all the way around, minimum bloatware Cons: gets warm Detailed Review for Acer A700 running JellyBean (4.1.1) 1. Screen and speakers: The screen is great, very crisp and clear - no issues there. No touch issues after the Jelly Bean update - its fast and very responsive overall. The techies can get the resolution numbers elsewhere. Speakers are very good for the size although the location should have been on the front bezel but not an issue .. just suggested improvement. 2. Heat Issues: The tablet does get warm when playing games or such but that was the case with the Asus tf700 also.. not sure why they thought only the Acer was at fault but not the Asus. During normal browsing, there is no evidence of any heat. The Jellybean update did address most of the heat issues so owners - get the new update as soon as it is offerred to get away from the heat issues. 3. Software: A few items like McAffee virus scan mobile could have been omitted but they can be disabled from the Apps menu. Acer included a few bundled apps with the tablet that are ok - nothing as intrusive like the Samsung. 4. Standard ports: MicroUSB - my investment in a dozen microusb cables over the last 2-3 years did not go to waste !!. Also, the MicroSD card slot has a cover that snaps in place preventing accidental ejection of the tiny microSD cards.. the Asus TF700 did not have the cover on the microSD card port - not good for a $450 tablet which is supposedly "top of the line".. 5. Size/weight: As the number comparers would tell you, it weighs more than the other tabs and is thicker. Personally, i think the thinner the tablet is, the harder it becomes to hold it when walking around - chance to slip out. The Acer, however has a heft to it which is really nice to hold - specially with the rubberized back and rounded edges. Overall, it is a nice tablet with a great price - I love it.

i have now had this tablet for about 5 to 6 months and i use it daily, i love it! i owned an ipad too but i sold it because this tablet is 10 times faster! the screen is absolutely georgous, especially with the 1920x1200 resolution! the quad core processor is supper fast, i have played a bunch of games on it and it is smooth and hasno glitches or hang ups at all. i now have this tablet, a 7" a100, a lg optimus and a vizio co-star (google tv) and they are all connected to each other via google and i can watch any movie, play any app or listen to any song via any of my devices, it is great! and i got to say that the battery life on my a700 is superb, i have watched movies and played games all day before and still didnt run out of battery life, as long as you set your screen bightness to auto so it will change brightness depending on your surroundings, just like a high end big screen hdtv. i have watched movies via hdmi connected to my hdtv without any issues, and it is very clear, it connects to my wi-fi without any issues and is actually super fast. i have wildblue satellite internet and i have downloaded a hd movie onto my tablet in under 15 minutes easily. (my internet is about 25 to 30 mbs download speed though, that probably helps) overall i cannot say anything bad about this tablet, i love it and about a month after i bought it i received the 4.1 jelly bean update too. very very very pleased with that. this is acers flagship tablet to compete with ipad, i prefer it to apple anyday becuase you dont have to worry about paying top prices to apple to do anything with your tablet like you do with the ipad. that was one of the reasons i decided to start looking elsewhere for tablets, not to mentiont the money hungry apple releasing a new ipad every other month it seems, it just makes people afraid to buy the new model because it will be replaced in a few months. this acer is here to stay for awhile because it has everything you could possibly want or need and they are rolling out updates as google releases them for the android system, it seems acer really cares about their customers. i would highly recommend, you will not be disappointed......not a bit! oh, as of august, adobe is no longer supporting any android operating system with updates for flash player, but do not worry, i checked on acer and it directed me to the site to download the flash player update myself, took 2 minutes and i had to press 2buttons, just awesome, so now flash player is back on android if you have the acer!

This tablet froze up several times after I first got it . it turned itself off and would not come back on at all. Though it has some very nice features I did not feel the quality was there and returned it