Acer Iconia Tab A510 Goes Up For Pre-order

Acer’s latest installment in their tablet lineup has made its official debut here in North America as the Iconia Tab A510. Acer is rightfully showing off their pride and joy as this tablet will be the first Acer slab to house a quad-core Tegra 3 processor. The Tab A510 will also be the first edition of the Acer Olympic Games series, and will feature an exclusive Olympic rings design branded on the back of the slab.

Acer has set the price at $449, which will score you Google’s latest OS (Android 4.0), a 10.1-inch WXGA (1280×800 resolution) HD display, Polaris Office 3.5, 32GB of storage, 1GB of RAM, dual cameras, and most importantly the juice of a quad-core Tegra 3 processor. Sounds downright mouthwatering right? Here’s what Acer had to say about the power of the Tegra 3,

This processor provides a unique Super 4-PLUS-1™ Quad Core CPU design with a fifth Battery Saver Core that allows up to four cores to be dedicated to demanding tasks such as watching video and playing the next generation of graphics-intense mobile games. These four cores provide up to 2.6 times the performance and up to three times the graphics performance compared to previous generation processors, making the tablet incredibly responsive with life-like and crisp visuals for mobile entertainment and console-quality gaming on-the-go.

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 Acer Iconia Tab A510 Android 4.0 tablet with quad-core CPU:
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Acer ICONIA TAB A200 benchmark tests

Knowing that this is the year of quad-cores, it’s rather confusing at first to think that dual-core devices are no longer deemed to be the cream of the crop, but rather, it’s eventually going to slide as being nothing more than mid-range. Then again, there’s one benefit to that whole mentality, and that’s the fact that they’re going be priced a lot less – thus, saving you some hard earned cash. With the Acer ICONIA TAB A200, it doesn’t scream anything compelling on paper with its 1GHz dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, but nonetheless, we’re curious to see how it handles.

Out of the box, we’re treated to that all too casual Honeycomb experience with a tablet running NVIDIA’s pride and joy CPU. For most basic tasks, like opening apps or navigating the homescreen with a static wallpaper, it’s ample enough to instill us with some confidence that it’s responsive – however, its flaws are once again exposed with process intensive tasks. For example, we do notice a hint of choppiness when navigating across the homscreen with a live wallpaper, while using it in portrait still results in a tiny bit of a delayed response.

Turning our attention with the our first benchmark test, Quadrant, the Acer ICONIA TAB A200 is able to put up scores roughly between the 1,500 and 1,800 – never once hitting the 2,000 mark. Obviously, that’s nowhere close to some of the benchmark devices out there on the market, like the Asus Transformer Prime or Samsung Galaxy S II. Meanwhile, the AnTutu benchmark puts out a total score of 5,018, which is again nothing spectacular compared to the competition. Are we surprised? Of course not, especially after seeing its performance out of the box. Otherwise, it should prove to be decent enough if you happen to have a good amount of patience, but for those that expect instantaneous results, this might not cut it for them.

Acer Allegro (W4) Windows Phone Lands In France Next Month

We heard recently that Acer’s first Windows Phone smartphone which was previously called the Acer W4 and is now called the Acer Allegro would be coming to Europe soon, and now Acer has confirmed that the Allegro will go on sale in France next month.

The Acer Allegro comes with Windows Phone 7.5 Mango and it features a 3.6 inch VGA touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, there is also a 5 megapixel camera, plus 8GB of built in storage. The Acer Allegro also comes with a new feature that wasn’t revealed previously, Fast Charge, which is designed to charge the Allegro’s 1300mAh battery up to 2.5 times faster than standard smartphone chargers. The Acer Allegro will go on sale in France in the middle of November for 299 Euros SIM free, there are no details as yet on when it will be available in other European countries.

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Acer A100 and A500 may get ICS in January 2012

The new hotness these days is in manufacturers confirming that their Honeycomb tablets will be getting the Ice Cream Sandwich treatment, and get it fast. Word has it that the Motorola XOOM will get the Android 4.0 update, and it looks like the Acer ICONIA TAB A100 and A500 will be getting the update in very early 2012.

Apparently, word leaked from Acer Poland that the ICONIA TAB A100/101 and A500/501 would not be getting the update this year, but users should expect the ICS treatment in mid-January 2012. This seems to match up with a lot of the other update announcements that we've heard from other companies, so although there has been no official announcement, there is also no reason to be skeptical.

Acer has been quick with updates in the past, so it seems reasonable that it would be able to get this one out fairly soon as well.

Are these the first Nexus Prime camera samples?

The Samsung Nexus Prime might have been delayed from an October 11th unveiling, but today is the day when we’re looking at what could be the first sample images taken with the camera of the Prime. Published on Google Plus, images by a mysterious “Galaxy Nexus” device have been downsized to the 3-megapixel default format of the social network but chances are that they were shot on the yet unofficial Nexus Prime.

There are two previous Nexus phones - the HTC-made Nexus One and the Samsung-made Nexus S, both of which wouldn’t be referenced as “Galaxy Nexus.” The only other possible phone is the Nexus Prime.

Samsung and Google were expected to announce the new phone along with a major rework of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, but cancelled in the last minute referring to Steve Jobs’ passing as the official reason. Russian analyst Eldar Murtazin, though, disagrees and says that Google is actively removing features from ICS, all in connection with Apple patent claims, so go figure.

But back to the images, how do you fing the quality of the camera?