My (wifes)acer iconia A500 has arrived

[sulky_uk]

Loving it so far (well she is) smooth as anything and no to bad to hold for a while. Honeycomb is awesome but missing some of the htc stuff that ive had for the last year..oh well. in depth review on it soon but heres some photos.



for use a an e-reader mainly.....yea right



nice home-screen..fully customizable



of course i have my reasons for getting her this





more in depth soon

[BrotherTobious]

Looks very nice sulky and good book bit of Pratchett there I see

[T-Bag]

After 2 more hours of playing with it what are your thoughts?

[sulky_uk]

i havent got a hold of it yet except to take some pics.............

[sulky_uk]

so i managed to get my hands on the tablet after prizing it out my wifes hands, as i said in my statement above it is silky smooth apart from a couple of issues

I WAS using the tablet to type in this mini review and had wrote a reasonable amount when i accidently hit the back key in the bottom left hand corner..... so im now using the laptop..... why is that still active on text input.....
secondly i noticed that the text input was smooth when imputing into Google search etc but when using the add reply box on this site  there was a 1 second delay between the key presses and it appearing on screen. Also turning pages in any ebook reader cause stutters on the page turn animation. Weird or what

Any how

Good Points:
Silky smooth except what i explained above
Advertised with 16gb on board, came with 32gb
Battery advertised as lasting 5-6 hrs continuous  use, wife got 11 hrs of nearly continuous use.. result
All the apps are stored on the 32gb leaving the 1 gb of onboard free for os use...from what i have seen
Wife says its a doodle to use.
looks good
doesnt get heavy when using as a ereader
Some of the new honeycomb live wallpapers use the gfx card and look stunning
Some of the honeycomb apps, eg youtube look awesome with the 3d type view,as does the honeycomb version of google earth.
The virtual keyboard is good in some areas... bad in others (see below)

Bad points
Price ...oh well
The fecking back key on the keyboard
As with more android virtual keyboards press the likes of q etc for more than a second you get the number 1...not on this one you get a 123 key at the side to take you to a new keyboard for symbols and numbers...why?
the slow text imput on some websites.
Not all apps work with the tablet, come on google get your finger out for a tablet section on the market
The fecking back key!!!!!

thats it for now ill post more updates as the new member of the family settles in

[TeaLeaf]

There's a highly recommended keyboard replacement addon, the name of which deserts me at the moment.  Might be worth a try.

[TeaLeaf]

Try this: Swiftkey

[sulky_uk]

Not compatable caption when I download it, weird..... OK research time

Cheers anyway t

update only available for tablets in a closed beta at the mo

[Eggbloke]

Looks nice and it's running a really recent kernel version. My phone is still on 2.6.29. =(

Have you tried holding down on the keyboard then swiping upwards. I know on the Froyo stock keyboard that used to bring up a little extra panel.