Acer Iconia Tab A210 review

Jelly Bean-toting 10.1-inch tablet with a great value spec - and a USB 2.0 slot

Acer Iconia Tab A210
It might be built for value, but there more than the price to recommend the Tab A210

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Acer Iconia Tab A210

The Android browser is fine, though we're not sure why it exists when Google has Chrome

Since we use a lot of Google-made services - including Gmail - and the A210 is an Android device, we immediately visited the Google Play store to download the Chrome browser. However, the A210 comes with the vanilla Android browser, which is almost as good - though we don't pretend to understand why it still exists. The latter boasts almost as good integration, with a sign-in and automatic loading-up of bookmarks, though it is possible to set the navigational bar to swap search engine from Google to Ask Jeeves, Yahoo! or, err, Bing.

In use the A210 does the job, zipping between websites using either browser, and allowing backflips, new tabs ad infinitum and video - both SD and HD - load-ups and playback without any complaints.

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Jamie Carter

Jamie is a freelance tech, travel and space journalist based in the UK. He’s been writing regularly for Techradar since it was launched in 2008 and also writes regularly for Forbes, The Telegraph, the South China Morning Post, Sky & Telescope and the Sky At Night magazine as well as other Future titles T3, Digital Camera World, All About Space and Space.com. He also edits two of his own websites, TravGear.com and WhenIsTheNextEclipse.com that reflect his obsession with travel gear and solar eclipse travel. He is the author of A Stargazing Program For Beginners (Springer, 2015),