Hello everyone. Here we are with a brand new tablet that has literally hit the market this
morning in the UK. This is the Acer Iconia B1. Now, what's particularly
special about this tablet?
It's retailing from £99 and the specs don't look half bad!
So we're going to do an unboxing video. Let's take a look at this new device from Acer and one
of the interesting things here is that the device is actually
coming from a tier one provider. This isn't a third on third job coming
out of Taiwan.
This is Acer saying they want this £99 market and they want to
deliver a decent product.
How decent? Well, we're going to find out.
So, opening it up, a nice looking
quickstart manual well printed etcetera. Certainly that is already one up in a lot
of the third on third manufacturers who barely give you a
manual or if they do it's only in French!
We've got the tablet itself which on first impressions is quite light actually.
Let's totally slip that out of the cover.
Wow! That doesn't look too bad. It sort of reminds me of a
Nook, a little bit. Right, we'll pop that to one side for a minute and just carry on seeing what we've
got
inside here.
An accessories pack,
an even thicker set of manuals, that looks like there's a few there in different languages.
A decent
looking charger
with a British plug on it, hurrah!
Always nice when we actually get a proper plug, not just a usb cable.
It's one of these ones where they've made it so it will work in multiple countries so you just
have to clip on the actual adapter part of it into the
cradle. That's gone in nicely.
And the obligatory usb cable, hurrah!
So what we have here is a tablet
with full accessories pack, you know,
full set of cables, power cables etcetera.
I think we can dispense with our box now,
let's have a look at the tablet itself.
Right, so hang on, first things first.
Ooh yes, it has that new electronics smell!
Let's pull this.
OK, not a bad looking bit of kit at all.
The screen's fairly reflective but
not distractingly so.
It has this blue kind of rim round it which is quite fetching actually.
Let's just take that off.
So there we are with all of the plastics removed from the tablet.
Not bad at all. It's very very nicely made I must say.
Ports on the bottom
easy and accessible. There's your speaker grille
3.5ml jack is up at the top, power and volume rockers on this side here.
And it looks like a noise cancelling microphone there as well.
Very nice.
Front facing camera, that's running 3meg, sorry
point three of a meg,
don't expect to be shooting any home movies or anything on that but just good
enough for Skypeing and what have you.
There's a funny Iconia badge
at the bottom corner there
which is just a sticker
it's just stuck on.
Mmm, it's quite fetching.
So this is the Acer Iconia B1
it currently retails for £99.
You can pick this up in the supermarkets of all places . I grabbed this in Asda so they do
definitely have some but you'll have to ask. When I spoke to the chap he
said they weren't putting them out on display yet so they are in the back of the
electronics and
DVD, CDs and video
area.
So if you go down there and speak to the bloke on the counter there
they should be in the back if you're interested in grabbing one of these.
We'll be bringing you a full review later today or early tomorrow morning.
Where we'll put the Acer B1 through its paces and see what it's made of.
With 512meg of RAM
and a 1.2 I think GHz processor, hang on I'll look at the back of the
box.
Yes, 1.2 GHz dual core
and 8gig of RAM and a 7in 1024x600 screen
GPS, wifi,
using across the spectrum of BGN, Bluetooth 4, a micro SD slot,
battery obviously. Not bad specs. We're going to see how well this stacks
up against
the Nexus 7 and also another £99 tablet that we reviewed
just before Christmas.
And we'll put them head to head and we'll
look at the Acer B1 as well separately and let's see who is the king of the
tablets at the low end.