Acer Iconia Tab A510 review: Is Tegra 3 enough?

The Acer Iconia Tab A510 uses a normal LCD (not an IPS panel) as its screen technology. As you can see, the colors don’t exactly pop from the screen, and the viewing angle is less than satisfying.
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The first quad-core tablet, the Asus Transformer Prime, launched in December 2011, but the adoption rate of quad-core on tablets since then has been disappointingly slow.

The new Acer Iconia Tab A510 marks only the third tablet to use a full quad-core CPU and is actually the first made by a company other than Asus.

Acer Iconia Tab A510 gets locked in and measured (photos)

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But with the Transformer Pad TF300 also using Tegra 3 and currently priced $50 cheaper than the Acer, is there any reason to even consider the A510?

It’s an intriguing question — one that I attempt to answer in the full review of the Acer Iconia Tab A510.

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