So today we'll be doing an unboxing of the Acer Iconia Tab. Now this one is
actually from the NCIX inventory. And the reason that I am unboxing this
particular unit is that the customer who purchased it asked me to unbox it before
they picked it up. So here I am. All right. So why don't we have a look at
what we've got in terms of features. So we have a wide viewing angle. Okay,
Wi-Fi certified, Bluetooth, GPS, a 5 megapixel camera, HDMI, and micro SD.
So, that gives us a couple of hints in terms of the overall feature set that
we're going to see with the Iconia Tab. Now, this is a Honeycomb NVIDIA Integra
2 tablet. So, it's going to have a similar overall spec to what we've seen
with many of the other tablets that I have recently unboxed.
Did I drop something? No, I dropped my pen. No big deal. All right. And what
else do we have on the back here? Okay, here we go. So, it uses Android um
Honeycomb Android. So, it comes with 3.1,
I believe. Uh it doesn't matter cuz you can upgrade it later. It has a dual core
1 GHz Tegra 2 ultra low power GeForce GPU. This is a 32 gig, this particular
one here. Um although it is available in other capacities. We've also got a 10.1
inch LCD screen, two megapixel rear camera with two megapixel front, five
megapixel rear camera with two megapixel front camera. Also, the rear camera has
autofocus and LED flash. Uh, Wi-Fi N,
Bluetooth, micro SD, rechargeable lipo battery, and oh, look at that. They put
a millah rating on it. So 3260 mAh just so you guys know because remember power
consumption is going to be fairly similar between tablets with the same
spec, the same screen size, the same general hardware specifications.
Okay, so the box inside we have black
box materials. We've also got a little tab here which will allow us to lift up
the Iconia tab. So I'm going to go ahead and show you guys what we have in terms
of accessories. So first start information here.
Something about plugging something into something. Okay. Oo, it comes with a
cleaning cloth. Look at that. They call it a notebook cleaning cloth, but I'm
sure you can clean your tablet with it, too. We have a quick start guide as well
as a passport. So, I guess the passport,
you know, I'm not going to worry too much about that. Quick start guide. Really, um, as far as Android goes, you
can find any information you're going to need online in terms of how-tos and, uh,
setup guides, all that good stuff. Okay.
We've got an included AC adapter. So, you can see it comes with the North American plug which goes into one of
these universal guys. I'm starting to see more of these versus
uh having specific AC adapters per region. So, I mean, personally, I think
it's smart. It's less waste. It's less tooling. And then you can just use these
little uh these little clips in order to make them compatible with the walls in
the various regions. So, here we have a USB cable. So, that's your data cable.
And then yeah, data and power is covered with those two adapters there. So here
we go. Here's the unit itself. And let's see if there's anything that we have to
add here. So Dolby Dolby Dolby mobile.
Okay. Wide viewing angle. That's good to know. Megapixel micro SD. Okay. So let's
go ahead and take off the protective plastic. Hopefully the customer won't mind since he asked me to unbox it.
Hopefully he knows that, you know, that means I will,
you know, open it. I mean, I guess he
could complain, I guess, but that would be sort of
a strange thing to do.
Overall, the uh the build of this one
looks quite nice. So, here, let's start with the locations
of everything. So, here is the front camera. All right. Here is the screen.
So, it is an Android tablet. So, that means you are going to be using a
software screen. So, unlike the iPad 2,
which I like having out here, just for context, which does have one hardware
button on it, none of the Android tablets have like a hardware home button
or anything like that. It's all going to be in software here. All right, let's
move along to the side. So, there's our power button. I've tried pressing that a couple times, but it looks like this
particular tablet does not come with a charge on it. Oh, no, there it goes.
It's turning on. There's our headphone jack. There is a What's this one called?
I think this is micro HDMI. Please correct me if I'm wrong on that one, but
this is not mini HDMI. This is the other more differenter HDMI. All right. On the
bottom, we find a dock connector.
On the side, we find a hard reset switch. This right there, that little
switch could end up being worth its weight in gold. I actually had one of
the other Android 3.1 tablets do a hard lock on me. Fortunately, it was the
Toshiba Thrive, which has a removable battery. So, I was able to take the back
panel off and remove the battery in order to hard reset it. But this one
actually has a hard reset. So, even though you can't pull the battery, you
do have that option there as well. So, that's really good to see. Uh, we've got
a full-size USB port. That's pretty nice. As well as the, uh, USB port for
transferring data to the tablet. Next, we have our DC power in. and let's move
over to the top. Okay, on the top we're
going to find what is in all likelihood where the micro SD card goes.
Yep, there we go. So, there's your micro SD slot down there. And finally, that's
the that's pretty slick, actually. That goes in. That blends in really nicely.
Finally, we have um I guess that's a
screen orientation lock would be my guess. I haven't seen this switch on any
of the other Android tablets. And then finally, we have a volume rocker. So
process system is not responding. Okay. Force close. So there it is. I don't
want to get too far into the user setup process because this actually will
belong to someone. But uh oh yeah, where's the uh yeah camera? Sorry I
didn't show you guys the camera. So there's the 5 megapixel camera on the back. There's the flash. And finally the
back speaker. So we do have stereo speakers on the Iconia Tab. And let's
see. So normally I would hold it like this if I'm using it in landscape mode.
So let's see if those speakers are covered. they are not. So, even though
they are rear-mounted speakers, the fact that you do have two of them is going to
help a lot in terms of the audio quality compared to something like the iPad 2,
which has a measly one back speaker that
is, you know, in the top right and uh is
not that comfortable to listen to. So, here, if you can come down and uh get
down to about table level here, I just want to show you guys the general form
factor of the Iconia Tab. So, it's not one of the thinnest tablets on the
market by any stretch, but you know what? I'm going to grab one other one for you guys so that you can just see
um as a basis of comparison here. This
is the Toshiba Thrive. So, this is the thickest of the Android tablets that
I've had a look at so far. So, you can see it falls right into that middle
ground. So, uh so there's the iPad,
there's the iPad 2 as well, just so you guys can compare. So, the Iconia Tab is
the one we're left with here. And I think that's pretty much everything I
wanted to say about it. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Iconia
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