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Acer Iconia A1-810 8 inch Tablet Review

Henry Butt July 19, 2013 Featured Announcement, Mobile, Tablet PC

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The Iconia A1 is supplied with a fairly vanilla version of Android which only has a few customization here and there.  It boasts Jelly Bean 4.2.2 which is the most up-to-date version.

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One of the most interesting customization is called ‘Touch WakeApp' which can be accessed through the settings panel.  This lets you instantly unlock the tablet and launch specified applications, either by swiping five fingers down the screen or by using a finger on either side.

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Acer also include an app called ‘Acer Cloud' which provides some free online storage space for you provided you sign up to an Acer account.  This can then be accessed through all of your other devices.

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Our sample of the A1 is a 16 GB version and had just over 11 GB of free space available when we received it.  So we imagine the 8 GB version would have around 3 GB to 4 GB of free space.  By the time we had customised it and put some content on there, we only had around 9.5 GB of space remaining.  If this isn't enough, an additional 16 GB can be added through the microSD card slot, although this will cost extra.

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The Iconia A1 is supplied with both Chrome and Android's stock browser installed.  We found the standard Browser offered a better user experience as pinch to zoom and scrolling were executed much more smoothly than Chrome.  Perhaps this is down to the limited performance of the processor.

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The on-screen keyboard is a standard Android affair which is fairly easy to use.  There are other keyboards available through the Google Play store should you want something more sophisticated, though.

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3 comments

  1. Viking_F
    July 19, 2013 at 4:09 pm

    Not bad for the price and the aspect ratio is actually correct for a change. But why 1024X 768 resolution ?. Bumping it to 1366X1024 would make a world of difference and upping the price a little will not really harm it!. Pity Acer always skimp on lower price items and is the main reason why they never had a best selling tablet unlike ASUS!.

  2. lisa
    February 24, 2014 at 6:30 pm

    Is the Acer iconia A1. 810 going to get the Kit Kat upgrade

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