The rigid hinge allows the W510 to perform like a laptop and the extended battery life gets you through the day easily. What makes the Acer shine is the keyboard dock. You do have a smaller screen but the Acer runs Windows 8 (when compared to the Surface RT) and costs a few hundred bucks less (when compared to the Surface Pro). The verdict is “don’t buy” and the grades are 6 out of 10 for design, 2 out of 10 for hardware and 7 for UI and OS, for a total of 5 out of 10.Compared to the Microsoft Surface, it's hard to beat the Surface with regards to build quality and design but the Acer W510 can hold it's own. Its pros are the video and audio quality, plus the long battery life, while the cons are bugs, bulky design, long battery charge and crappy display. If you want the verdict, here it is: this is a decent tablet, but it’s spoiled by the backlighting issues, by the random reboots, by the overheating and no extras compared to the Acer Iconia Tab A510. The screen unlock mechanism is pretty much the same, with a ring of apps available here as well.įinally we have the usual custom apps that we also saw on Acer Iconia Tab A200: Aupeo radio, the Clear.fi multimedia player and Lumi Read, an e-reader and library of books. Obviously, since this is an Acer model, on top of Android 4.0 ICS there’s the Acer Ring UI, with its customizable options, including gallery, screenshot, browser, volume and bookmarks. The browser and keyboard are also pretty comfortable to use, which makes it even harder to tell you that this product is no good. The video and audio of the tablet are great, with great quality and viewing angles and also a decent volume. In NenaMark 2 once again there’s a good result, 59.9 FPS, that compared to the Acer Iconia Tab A200 is twice as big. In AnTuTu the result is actually good, 11.046 points, compared to the 10k of the ASUS Transformer Pad 300 and the 11.700 of the Infinity. Not to mention that the ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity scores 4600 points. ![]() The problem with the good battery is that it takes very long to charge, about 8 – 10 hours even.Īs far as benchmarks go, the Acer Iconia Tab A510 Olympic Edition scores 2365 points in Quadrant, very unimpressive compared to the Acer Iconia Tab A200 1900 points or the 3700 points of the ASUS Transformer Pad 300. The tablet is available in black and silver and it features a 9800 mAh battery, good enough for 12-13 hours of activity, or maybe even 15 hours. Other features include GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope and compass. Under the hood of the Acer Iconia Tab A510 Olympic Edition we find a quad core Tegra 3 processor at 1.3 GHz by Nvidia, helping the slate run Android 4.0.3 ICS. Frankly this was a pleasant surprise, since it took some very decent pics and videos.Īt the front there’s a 1 megapixel camera for videocalls. At the back there’s a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and 1080p video capture. It’s got 32GB of storage, a microUSB 2.0 port, WiFi, 1GB of RAM and it comes with an adaptor that allows you to connect the microUSB port to a normal USB drive, as shown in the video review below. It has a 10.1 inch display with an underwhelming 1280 x 800 pixel resolution, plus stereo speakers and Dolby Mobile technology, as signalled on the back of the device. Acer Iconia Tab A510 Olympic Edition measures 10.2mm in thickness, weighs 680 grams and it was announced about a month ago or so. The device is hard to hold and bulky and it comes with a strangely placed microUSB port, at the bottom of the tablet. It has a plasticky back and sadly it didn’t keep the rubberized area from the A200 or the full USB port.Īlso, the only difference between this model and the original A510 is the batch of Olympic rings on its back… THAT’s ALL! No trace of extra content, any gimmicks, nada, zero, which is frankly a disappointment. You must know that this device is sold for about $399.99 on Amazon and it looks very much like the Acer Iconia Tab A200 and any other Acer Android tablet for that matter. Also overheating is an issue… Anyway, we’ll get back to that later. I’ve gone through Amazon and Best Buy comments and found a lot of people complaining about the exact same issues I had with the tablet: random reboots and bad screen. ![]() Once again, this is MY theory and it may not be the truth… but it seems plausible. I’m supposed that the London Olympics organizers weren’t too happy with the fact that one of their official gadgets wasn’t ready for the show, so Acer was forced to sell the crappy tablets. Well, my theory is that they actually kept the defective tablets and rebranded them for the Olympics. Finally, Acer decided to pull the A511 and A510 from the stores, because of some issues, which they didn’t detail. This model was first confirmed to have issues in its original version, the Acer Iconia Tab A510.
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