I m iconia a500 owner for 2month now.
Totally worth the investment.
I choose to buy a Android honeycomb tablet than Froyo/Gingerbread tablet / iPad cause:
1. Tegra base processor that powerful enough (see how fast HTC desire HD become a moderate phone now, compare to SGS2, LG optima 2X, Mot. Atrix..)
2. Tegra base processor is the only processor that HC is supporting. Upgrading to new HC should just come to Vendor decision than technical bottlenet.
3. 10" inch tablet is sufficent big for every daily PC work or media playback.
(Reason for Acer: reasonable prices, USB full size + 32G + no docking required, why need carry a dock around when we want a tablet).
But I heard recently:
1. Android Icecream sandwich is preferring TI OMAP 4 processor.
2. Tegra base processor may have issue working on 4G. Heard Mot. Bionic is going to switch to TI OMAP 4.
3. Tegra 2 rendering isn't as good as TI OMAP 4. (That why NvDia is such hurry to announce the kal-el processor that claim to support 1440p)
4. nVdia CEO is disappointed during the early launch of HC tablet, as most THD app isn't ready nor Android Market.
at least,
There is still someone working on Xoom 2 & Eee Pad transformer 2 that may use Kal-El processor.
The best solution to consumer:
1. ICS android support both Tegra and TI Omap4 (TI for phone, Tegra for tablet)
2. Acer still mercy those Tegra 2 tablet and get upgrade to ICS android.
(Heard Google promise 18month support & upgrade for new android from it launch date)
else we r on XDA custom rom future
Sorry I m to use to Windows environment. A pc that last many years with enabling us to upgrade windows version,
(if the hardware support that).
Same same here,... bought it because Galaxy Tab 10.1 requires long charging time. Worth the money. The unit is fast and it's 2 days old!
TS,... please add us as owners. Thanks!