Acer Iconia Tab A110 - One More Small Budget Android Tablet

The first thing for you to know about Acer's 7-inch Iconia Tab A110 is that it costs $230. That's $30 more than the base price of sold-at-cost Android mainstays like the 7" Kindle Fire HD and Nexus 7.

And with its Tegra 3 processor clocked at 1.2GHz, just 8GB of internal storage, and a 1024 x 600 display (i.e. less than 720p), it's not the most competitive piece of hardware.

Will it run the top Android tablet games? Sure, at least for now. But they won't look as good on its display, and Acer's tablet will show its age before the Nexus 7 or Fire HD.

Except here's why you still might want it: Unlike the Nexus 7, the A110 has a microHDMI-out port. Unlike the Fire HD, it runs a non-forked version of the latest Android OS, without any of that "special offers" nonsense. And unlike both competing tablets, the A110 has a microSD slot for expanded storage capacity. (Although that'll cost extra, of course.)

Is expandable storage enough to make you consider a (nominally) more expensive tablet than Google's or Amazon's, when it has a weaker display? Let us know in the comments.

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Source : ign[dot]com