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hey I'm Donna Bella today we're taking a first look at the iconia tab from acer this is a Wi-Fi only contract free tablet running Google's Android Honeycomb OS and priced attractively at four hundred and forty nine dollars honeycomb made its debut on the Motorola Xoom early in 2011 and we criticized the tablet for being a little too pricey and too bulky to compete with the iPad with the iconia tab acer is at least answering one of our requests pricing their tablet a four hundred and fifty dollars less than the Wi-Fi only zoom while maintaining nearly all of its features like the zoom you get a 10.1 inch screen that's great for videos and web browsing there's a built-in HDMI output for mirroring HD content onto your TV you get a five megapixel camera on the back a two megapixel camera on the front both of which can be used to chat over the included Google Talk app the Android Honeycomb experience here is pretty much what you'd expect a so puts a few of their own bundled apps on the home screen but if you don't like them they're easy to clear off and replace with something else the bad news is that acer hasn't cut any of the bulk we saw in the zoom in fact it's a tad heavier and when you hold it up next to the slim down ipad 2 the difference is dramatic still we're happy to see honeycomb reach a price below the iPad and hopefully this will be a trend that we'll keep seeing throughout the year for cnet.com I'm Donna Bell and this is the Acer Iconia Tab a 500