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With its solid battery life and useful multitasking apps, the Acer Iconia One 10 tablet is a pretty good deal at only $150. For $188, you can buy a version of the midrange model that upgrades its storage to 32GB. For $168, you can get the same tablet, but with a faster 1.7-GHz MediaTek MT8151V processor, 16GB of storage, a smaller 5,400-mAh battery and a lower-resolution 0.3-MP front camera. The $150 model of the Acer Iconia One 10 we reviewed has a 10.1-inch HD (1280 x 800) screen, a 1.3-GHz quad-core MediaTek Cortex A53 MT8163 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 2-MP front camera and a 6,100-mAh battery. That's longer than the average tablet (8:47) and slightly better than the Fire HD 10 (9:05) but shorter than the Lenovo Tab 2 A10 (12:00). MORE: Laptops with the Longest Battery Life The tablet lasted 9 hours and 13 minutes on the Laptop Mag Battery Test, which consists of continuous Web surfing over Wi-Fi. The Iconia One 10 offers very good endurance. The 5-MP camera on the tablet's back did better, accurately rendering the red of the leaves on a tree and showing some detail in its branches.

The media apps abPhoto and abMusic let you view and play the images and songs you keep on your PC.

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The abFiles app accesses files stored on a Windows PC and converts Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents into PDFs to share with others. MORE: Our Favorite Tablets for Work and PlayĪcer includes its suite of BYOC (build your own cloud) apps for those who want to get real work done.

System Doctor repeatedly alerted me that the Iconia One 10 was low on memory when I surfed the Web in Chrome and looked up directions in Google Maps.

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The app provides a notification whenever the tablet's 1GB of RAM fills up, allowing you to free up some of the tablet's memory with a tap, in an attempt to make it run faster. The performance-aiding System Doctor app gets prime placement in the middle of the tablet's home screen by default. In EZ WakeUp, you can program the Iconia One 10 to wake to specific apps when you tap on the screen with five finger tips, press both thumbs against the display or double tap with one finger. When I played Jeremih's 'Oui,' the highs of the singer's voice came out sharp and annoying, the bass was scratchy and distorted, and the medley of drum cymbals sounded muddied and indistinguishable.ĮZ Snap adds a three-finger pinch gesture for screenshots. The sound coming from the small stereo speakers on the sides of the Iconia One 10 can get loud enough to fill a medium-size conference room, but its audio grated on my ears. That's below the scores for the Amazon Fire HD 10 (10,043), the Lenovo Tab 2 A10 (9,282) and the average tablet (17,452). The Iconia One 10 performed poorly on the 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited graphics benchmark test, with a low score of 5,737. Both of those tablets have 1.50-GHz MediaTek processors but the Tab 2 A10 has 2GB of RAM, while the Iconia One 10 and Fire HD 10 have only 1GB. The Geekbench 3 overall performance test gave the Iconia One a score of 1,921, which is better than the Fire HD 10 (1,514) but worse than the Tab 2 A10 (2,371). MORE: Best 2-in-1s (Laptop/Tablet Hybrids) I could play the endless runner Despicable Me: Minion Rush on the tablet, but it did stutter occasionally. The tablet was unable to keep up with my finger as I drew in the EZ Note app. With YouTube and Gmail open in the background, I scrolled through Web pages with acceptable speed, but the unlock screen would occasionally need a couple of extra swipes to open, and I had to tap a few times on the address bar in Chrome to edit a URL. With its 1.3-GHz quad-core MediaTek Cortex A53 MT8163 processor, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage, the Iconia One 10 delivered mixed performance and was occasionally unresponsive. That is close to what we saw with the Fire HD 10 (82.7 percent), but less than the scores for both the average tablet (92.4 percent) and the Tab 2 A10 (94 percent). The Iconia One 10's display reproduces 81.1 percent of the sRGB color gamut, according to our colorimeter. However, panels on the Fire HD 10 (370 nits), Tab 2 A10 (380 nits) and the average tablet (367 nits) shine much brighter. When tested with our light meter, the display registered 266 nits of brightness, which is fine for browsing the Web and watching videos on YouTube indoors. The Iconia One 10 allows a wide range of viewing angles (from 75 degrees on both sides), but its heavily reflective Gorilla Glass 4 display picked up a lot of glare in our well-lit office.

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