Android Ice Cream Sandwich update for Acer Iconia A500 Tab

[Upendra]

The Acer Iconia Tab A500 is a tablet with 10 "display with a resolution of 1,280 x 800 pixels, sold with Android 3.0 Honeycomb and a hardware configuration of all respect. With the new build of Honeycomb is made available several improvements in the user interface, greater ability to connect external USB accessories and all other things now have new features. All this waiting, or at least hoping, that in a future update will also bring Android Ice Cream Sandwich on this device. What do you say about this?

[Alondra]

About the Acer Iconia Tab A500 is known as yet not much. When will the official update comes on Android 3.1 Ice-cream sandwich is still completely unknown, the fact is that one must be patient. The tablet has already Rooted. There is now a first custom available; as well ClockworkMod Recovery is ready for the tablet. With the recovery ClockworkMod port can custom kernel, ROMs and nandroid backups are installed. At the first custom ROM is a port of Android 3.1. It is based on the ROM pad Eee Android Transformer. However, they warn against some bugs, which the ROM is not recommended for all users.

[Mrigankasekhar]

From Taiwan can be heard at the fact that we can expect in August, probably the Acer Iconia Tab A500 and the Toshiba Tablet Thrive with price cuts. According to sources, the manufacturers want to clear their stocks before the release of Android Ice Cream Sandwich and the expected introduction of the new version of the Apple iPad casting its shadow. Acer wants the price correction also meet its target to sell 2011 a total of approximately 2.5 million tablets.

[KennedII]

Acer Iconia Tab A500 leaves us with mixed feelings. Positive we find the metal finish of the cabinet and the presence of a USB host port on the tablet, which lacks the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer. The performance of the benchmarks is mostly narrowly better than the ASUS tablet, but the difference is not large enough for a clear preference for Acer to speak. The adjustments to the interface by Acer are modest, the additional bundled software is nice, but in our opinion, incomplete. Absence of a manager and Exchange synchronization are significant failures in this area.

[aFRODITA]

Today, it's done, since the two manufacturers, ASUS and Acer, have confirmed that their shelf 10 "respectively, the Eee Pad Turn and the Iconia Tab A500 would receive this new update from the start the month of June no more precise date is given, however we know there will be an update OTA (Over The Air, by direct download from the shelf). Within two weeks, the owners of one of these two slates will then resize the joy of their widgets, or even use a USB device such as a joystick for Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 for example. That is what to do wait until the release of Ice Cream Sandwich, which should be out by the end of the year.

[KennedII]

The ROM should use better not if you frequently use the switch to display rotation. This feature is not supported until now. PS3 controllers are not detected. Probably one can do without it, because this feature in Android 3.1 was not yet integrated. According to the data ROM to work quite stable, apart from the bugs at once. Buck by an earlier use of the docking station from Acer has been prevented. Meanwhile, this deficiency is corrected. Let's hope that the other bugs are soon eliminated and an efficient operation is guaranteed with the ROM.

[CRiley]

Google announced a larger update for Android in the form of Android Ice Cream Sandwich . The version number in this respect is not known, but the operating system must be launched end of 2011. Ice Cream Sandwich, the benefits of Android Gingerbread version for smartphones and Android Honeycomb tablets for packing together and form a complete operating system that is suitable for tablets and for smartphones. One of the new features is a face recognition camera that can track your face and the focus can shift based on voice recognition.