Acer Iconia Tab A500 first hands-on!

Acer’s ten-inch Tegra 2 tablet with Verizon LTE ? You’re looking at it right now, courtesy of the NVIDIA booth at CES 2011′s Digital Experience show. It’s just an engineering prototype with an early build of Android 2.2 — it’ll run Honeycomb at launch — but the hardware seriously feels final, with a solid metal case and a supremely responsive touchscreen that tracks a full ten points of contact. There’s an interesting array of ports, too, with a full-sized USB port (as well as micro-USB) on one side and a dedicated charging socket too, as well as a dock connector on the bottom. What’s missing are the standard Android Home, Menu and Back buttons, as instead of those, you simply swipe the lower right corner of the screen to bring up a tiny pane of virtual alternatives. No LTE connectivity to be found at Digital Experience, we’re afraid, so we’ll have to bring you speed tests another day — but we’ll have video up soon. For now, peep the gallery below. Gallery: Acer Iconia Tab A500, first hands-on! Acer Iconia Tab A500 first hands-on! originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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