Acer Iconia Tab A500
Acer Iconia Tab A500 Acer

Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime has been the talk of the town since its release in December. At CES 2012, Asus announced a new model of Transformer Prime TF700T with a bigger battery and screen resolution. Rest of the specs is similar to the original Transformer Prime.

Another tablet that has been doing the rounds is Acer Iconia A500, which has a 10.1-inch screen offering resolution of 800 x 1280 pixels at 149 ppi. The A500 runs on the Android Honeycomb operating system and has a dual-core 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 chip. The tablet features a 5MP camera on the back and a 2MP camera on the front. The tablet, which weighs 730 grams and is 13mm thick, comes with 16/32GB storage that can be expandable up to 32GB via microSD card.

Let's see how the new model of Transformer Prime fares with Acer Iconia Tab A500:

Display: The new Transformer Prime has a 10.1-inch high-definition display providing a resolution of 1920 × 1200 pixels at 224 pixels per inch (ppi) density in 178 degrees ultra-wide viewing angle Super IPS+ panel with Gorilla Glass. On the other hand, Acer Iconia Tab A500 has a 10.1-inch LCD capacitive display offering resolution of 800 x 1280 pixels at 149 ppi density.

Size: Asus Transformer Prime TF700T has a dimension of 263 x 180.8 x 8.3 mm and weighs 586 grams, while Acer Iconia Tab A500 has a dimension of 260 x 177 x 13.3 mm and weighs 730 grams.

Operating System: Asus Transformer Prime TF700T runs on Google's Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) Operating System while Acer Iconia Tab A500 runs on Google's Honeycomb OS.

Processor: The Asus tablet has a quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A9 CPU Nvidia Tegra 3 chipset and ULP GeForce GPU. On the other hand, Acer's tablet has 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 T20 dual-core Cortex-A9 chip and ULP GeForce GPU.

Camera: The Asus tablet has an 8 megapixel camera capable of capturing videos in 1080p and a 2 megapixel camera on the front for video call while Acer's tablet sports a 5 megapixel camera on the rear and a 2 megapixel camera on the front.

Connectivity: Both tablets support Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, EDR and USB v2.0.

Storage: Asus Transformer Prime TF700T comes in 32GB/64GB with 1GB RAM and has a microSD slot supporting up to 32GB. Acer Iconia Tab A500 has a 1GB RAM and comes in 16/32GB internal storage, which can be expandable up to 32GB with a micro SD card.

Battery: The Asus tablet has a 25Wh battery while the Acer tablet has a 3260 mAh.

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