Acer Iconia Tab A200 affordable, will get ICS on Jan 2012

Acer has officially announced the Iconia Tab A200. it runs Android 3.2 on a Tegra 2 processor promising affordability rather than cutting-edge specs. However, Acer has confirmed that the A200 is in line for an Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 upgrade by January 2012.

The tab size is 260 x 175 x 12.4 mm slate weigths 720g and comes with 8/16GB of storage. A good 3,260 mAh battery for up to 8hrs of video playback or 400hrs of standby Acer reckons, together with 1GB of RAM and a full-sized USB port for connecting external peripherals like keyboards. A microSD card slot can be used to add to the storage, and the 10.1-inch display runs at 1280 x 800 resolution with a 2-megapixel front-facing camera.