Acer's new Honeycomb tablet to compete with iPad on price

As big a player in netbooks as Acer has become, you'd expect the firm to compete aggressively in tablets, if tablets are seen as a product that cannibalizes netbooks. The Iconia Tab A500 is Acer's first foray into tablets, and it has built a device that has to compete, price-wise, with the iPad.

Available for pre-reorder on Best Buy’s web site for $450, the device apparently will be available in Best Buy retail stores beginning April 24.


The tablet will run Android version 3.0 (Honeycomb) on its NVIDIA Tegra 250 1GHz dual-core processor, supported by a gig of RAM.

The price ranks in at just below the cheapest iPad 2, which costs $500 and is Wi-Fi only with 16GB of internal storage (just like the Iconia A500).

Acer's new Honeycomb tablet to compete with iPad on price