Acer A500 tablet gets Best Buy preorders now, available soon

The Acer Iconia Tab A500 is only the second Honeycomb-based tablet. The first was the Motorola Xoom.

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CNET - When I last saw the Acer Iconia A500 Tab back in January at CES 2011, there was very little information available about the tablet. Then, Acer only showed the tablet with a blank screen. Even the screenshots didn't include screenshots.

What a difference three months makes.

On Friday Acer announced that its Iconia Tab A500 is now available for preorder exclusively at BestBuy.com. And as you'll see from the slideshow below, there are now plenty of screenshots in the screenshots.

Acer also confirms that the A500 may be preordered in brick and mortar Best Buy stores beginning April 14. The tablet with Wi-Fi, will be available in stores and online beginning April 24 with a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $449.99.

The 10.1-inch Acer Iconia Tab A500 will be only the second tablet, yet released, running Android 3.0 or Honeycomb. The Acer also includes a dual-core 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 250 processor, integrated GeForce graphics, 1GB of RAM, forward- and rear-facing cameras, and a 1,280x800-pixel TFT WXGA display with an 80-degree wide viewing angle. An ambient light sensor and accelerometer round out the main features.     Read More