The Acer Iconia A1-830 is stylishly thin and runs continuously without problems during the occasional use. With the back in smooth aluminum, it looks solid yet comfortable to hold and has a microSD card expansion slot.
Running an earlier version of Android; delay in performance if multiple applications are open or if multitasking; the screen resolution is low by today's standards; it no longer has a micro-HDMI port.
The Acer Iconia tablet A1-830 is an elegant and simple to use basic, but you have to spend only $ 50 more to upgrade to a slate with faster performance and better features.
The Acer Iconia tablet is A1-830 knock-off designer handbag tablets. Looks like a purchase of high-end, but simply ..-- and fashionable ..-- meets basic needs at a reasonable price. The 7.9-inch slate looks like an Apple iPad Mini at first glance, with its sleek black and silver design, but more careful examination, it is nothing special ..-- unless you count a $ 179 tablet chic and functional especially noteworthy.
Although it looks slick 830-A1 is a significant improvement over its predecessor thick, the Acer Iconia A1-810, its performance Show only a slight update of its specification does not hold a candle to those of its competition, starting the relatively low price of $ 229.
The lightweight Acer Iconia A1-830 has a slim profile with a modern color scheme of white and silver. The smooth finish and rounded edges and corners provide a comfortable experience for melt-in-your-hands, if there is no media outlet design. Front of white plastic has a feeling of tactiliy fragile, but sturdy aluminum back A1-830 distracts from any signs of cheap construction.
With a display of 7.9 inches and aspect ratio of 4: 3, opt for the navigation bar on the screen instead of the typical Android hardware buttons, and features a logo of Acer in the center of the bottom bezel, with the camera in front the middle of the top bezel. When in landscape orientation, the side frames easily accommodate your thumbs, and in portrait mode, holding it in one hand is not a stretch ..-- even for my small hands.
The top edge of the tablet houses a pinhole microphone, a Micro-USB port and a headphone jack. On the right edge, prominent projecting power and volume buttons sit on top, while the microSD card slot, expandable up to 32GB ..-- is just a few inches below. The back of the tablet is fairly simple, with dual speakers on the bottom half and the back camera on the top right corner. The Iconia A1-810, the model before the A1-830, offered a Micro-HDMI port, but it seems that Acer has sacrificed on the new model to meet its low price and / or the standard trendy slim-is in the tablet.
The Acer Iconia A1-830 comes with a nearly pure version of Android 4.2.2 and lack of exciting bells or whistles. However, it includes a healthy variety of preloaded applications. More apps included appease the less technologically inclined ..-- or downloading-lazy (like me).
In addition to the suit of Amazon apps like Evernote, a scanner of bar codes and the ASTRO file manager, Acer includes some gems of its own software. The Iconia A1-830 slate app provides life image by Acer, a user-friendly scrapbook-type of software to collect and organize photos; and Acer Cloud, which synchronizes and backs up data on multiple devices.
The applications make the device more approachable for first time Android tablet owners or users technologically uninclined. Many applications are included standard or popular - that may be useful or overwhelming, depending on the individual ..-- but I did not mind almost pure Android experience and the considerable amount of preloaded applications geared toward bookworms.