Acer Iconia Tab A510 review

If you’ve been on the market for a tablet and the ipad does not appeal to you, you might want to consider this cutting edge quad core monster.

We can still hear the echoes of NVIDIA’s CEO teasing the prospect of $300 Tegra 3 tablets, but while the promise of that affordable future isn’t quite a reality yet, impatient consumers eyeing quad-core performance have a readily available option: the Iconia Tab A510. Acer’s succeeded in building a superb Android 4.0 tablet, and it’s one consumers with a penchant for media consumption might want to consider. Alright, so it isn’t the immaculate Tegra 3 conception Acer (or NVIDIA) might’ve wanted it to be, prone as it is to brief software fits, though we’ll confess we’ve noticed similar bumps on the similarly priced ASUS Transformer Pad TF300, as well as the dual-core Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. So should those stifled hiccups enough to put you off the A510′s Olympic-branded trail? They shouldn’t. With its bleeding-edge quad-core performance, exceptional battery life and all the benefits of Ice Cream Sandwich, this is a 10-incher worth its slightly heavier weight. For those of you intrigued by the idea of a tablet that can also double as a netbook replacement, we still heartily recommend the well-performing, reasonably priced Transformer TF300. But if you’re willing to invest in a dependable tablet and it’s exceptional battery life that you’re after, those $450 bucks stop here.

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