Acer (re)Unveils Iconia Tab A500 Tablet

Acer announced this morning that it will start selling the Iconia Tab 500, the company's rival to the iPad 2, in the UK from the 8th of April.

The device - which we first saw at the Mobile World Congress back in February 2011- will run on Google Android Honeycomb and will be powered by a dual core Nvidia Tegra 2 system on chip clocked at 1GHz, like many of its competitors.

It comes with a 10.1-inch touchscreen with a 1280x800 pixels resolution, is a mere 13.3mm thick (50 per cent more than the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1), weighs 700g, comes in Wi-Fi and 3G version (called the A501) and will cost £449 for the former model and an additional £100 for the latter.

The 3G version is expected to be launched in May. Other notable features include a rear five-megapixel camera with flash and AF, a front facing 2-megapixel one, 10 point multitouch, 6-axis gyroscope, Clear.fi technology (a rebadged version of DLNA), a HDMI output, one USB and a microUSB port, a unibody metal casing and preloaded contents (3D and online games, e-books and magazines, depending on the country).

Acer has also confirmed that there will be a Bluetooth keyboard available for the A500 for £90 and that the 7-inch version of the tablet, known as the A100, will arrive in mid-May and will run Honeycomb.