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so today we'll be doing an unboxing of the Acer Iconia Tab now this one is actually from the NCIX inventory and the reason that I am unboxing this particular unit is that the customer who purchased it asked me to unbox it before they picked it up so here I am alright so why don't we have a look at what we've got in terms of features so we have a wide viewing angle okay Wi-Fi certified Bluetooth GPS 5 megapixel camera HDMI and micro sd so that gives us a couple of hints in terms of the overall feature stats that we're gonna see with the Iconia Tab now this is a honeycomb NVIDIA Tegra 2 tablet so it's got a similar overall spec to what we've seen with many of the other tablets that I have recently unboxed alright and what else do we have on the back here ok here we go so it uses Android Honeycomb Android so it comes with 3.1 I believe it doesn't matter because you can upgrade it later it has a dual-core 1 gigahertz Tegra 2 ultra-low power GeForce GPU this is a 32 gig this particular one here although it is available in other capacities we've also got a 10.1 inch LCD screen 2 megapixel rear camera with 2 megapixel front 5 megapixel rear camera with 2 megapixel front camera also the rear camera has autofocus and LED flash Wi-Fi n Bluetooth microSD rechargeable lipo battery and oh look at that they put a milliamp hour rating on it so 30 to 60 million powers just so you guys know because remember power consumption is going to be fairly similar between tablets with the same spec the same screen size the same general hardware specifications ok so the box inside we have black box materials we've also got a little tab here which will allow us to lift up the Iconia tap so I'm gonna go ahead and show you guys what we have in terms of accessories so first start information here about plugging something into something ok oh it comes with a cleaning cloth look at that they call it a notebook cleaning cloth but I'm sure you can clean your job - we have a QuickStart guide as well as a passport so I guess the task port you know I'm not gonna worry too much about that QuickStart guide really as far as Android goes you can find any information you're going to need online in terms of how to's and setup guides all that good stuff okay we've got an included AC adapter so you can see it comes with the North American plug which goes into one of these universal guys I'm starting to see more of these versus having specific AC adapters per region so I mean personally I think it's smart it's less waste it's less tooling and then you can just use these little these little clips in order to make them compatible with the walls in various regions so here we have a USB cable so that's your data cable and then yeah data in power is covered with those two adapters there so here we go here's the unit itself and let's see if there's anything that we have to adhere so doble dope Dolby dual bmobile okay wide viewing angle that's good to know what megapixel micro SD okay so let's go ahead and take off the protective plastic hopefully the customer won't mind since you asked me to unbox it hopefully he knows that you know if that means I will open it I mean I guess you could complain I guess that would be a strange thing to do the build at this one looks quite nice so here let's start with the locations of everything so here is the front camera alright here is the screen so it is an Android tablet so that means you are going to be using a software screen so unlike the iPad 2 which I like having out here just for context which does have one hardware button on it none of the Android tablets have like a hardware home button or anything like that it's all gonna be in software here alright let's move along to the side so there's our power button I've tried pressing that a couple times but it looks like this particular tablet does not come with a charge on it oh there goes it's turning on there's our headphone jack there is a phone call I think this is micro HDMI please correct me if I'm wrong on that one this is not mini-hdmi this is the other more different term hdmi all right on the bottom we find a dock connector on the side we find a hard reset switch this right there that little switch could end up being worth its weight in gold I actually had one of the other Android 3.1 tablets do a hard lock on me fortunately it was the Toshiba Thrive which has a removable battery so I was able to take the back panel off and remove the battery in order to hard reset it but this one actually has a hard reset so even though you can't pull the battery you do have that option there as well so that's really good to see we've got a full size USB 2 port that's pretty nice as well as the USB port for transferring data to the tablet next we have our DC power in and let's move over to the top okay on the top we're gonna find what is it all likelihood where the micro SD card goes yeah there we go so there's your micro SD slot down there and finally that's the that's pretty slick actually that goes in that lens and really nicely finally we have I guess that's a screen orientation lock would be my guess I haven't seen this switch underneath the other Android tablets and then finally we have a volume rocker so process system is not responding okay force closed so there it is I don't want to get too far into the user setup process because this actually will belong to someone but oh yeah where's the camera sorry I didn't show you guys the camera so there's the five megapixel camera on the back there's the flash and finally the back speaker so we do have stereo speakers on the iconia tab and let's see so normally I would hold it like this if I'm using it in landscape mode so let's see if those speakers are covered they are not so even though they are rear mounted speakers the fact that you do have two of them is going to help a lot in terms of the audio quality compared to something like the iPad 2 which has a measly one back speaker that is you know in the top right and is not that comfortable to listen to so here if you can come down and get down to about table level here I just want to show you guys the general form factor of the iconia tab so it's not one of the thinnest tab on the market by any stretch but you know what I'm gonna grab one other one for you guys so that you can just see as a basis of comparison here this is the Toshiba Thrive so this is the thickest of the Android tablets that I've had a look at so far so you can see it falls right into that middle ground so so there's the iPad there's the iPad 2 as well just so you guys can compare so the Iconia Tab we're left with here and I think that's pretty much everything I wanted to say about it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Iconia Tab a 500 don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos