Acer's Iconia A200 is no iPad 3-killer

Acer earlier this month announced its Iconia tablet A200.

The Acer tablet has a 10.1-inch screen size with WXGA resolution of 1280x800 pixels. It comes packed with a Nvidia Tegra 2 SoC chipset and a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor running at 1GHz per core along with a ULP GeForce graphics engine that packs 8 cores.  

It will be available in two capacities: 8GB and 16GB. And there will also be support for a microSD card for memory expansion.

Honeycomb will be the device's launch operating system, but Android 4.0 is said to be confirmed for some time in 2012. 

The tablet will feature Acer's Ring Interface for better multitasking. This will help making apps accessible from any screen. It'll also feature an application that'll allow you to take screengrabs, which is a massive boon for Android users. 

The Iconia tablet measures 260 x 175 x 12.4 mm and weighs 720grams. 

The tablet is certainly heavy and so far has nothing exceptional to offer although it is better than Acer Iconia A500 tablet.

Compared to tablets already available out there, though, and it's a different story – the Acer Iconia A200 isn't all that impressive.

Especially when the consider that Apple's iPad 3 is on its way. 

Acer told The Inquirer the following:

“Ideal for good times, gaming e-books, movies, music, photography, social networking and more, this tablet is an amazing hub of activity for people of all ages, and it comes at a very affordable price.

Today the tablet has reached UK at the price of $469.