Dear students,
Next week I will cover on:
there will be activities and exercises given for you to practice on and apply the skills.
Note: Don’t forget to bring your laptop. Thank you and see you on Monday. 🙂
The Acer Iconia Tab A500 is the latest in the ongoing parade of Android 3.0 tablets, and with a price that undercuts Apple’s iPad 2 by $50, the $450 Iconia Tab (price as of 4/23/2011) distinguishes itself in a crowded field. This tablet earns props for its many strengths, such as its inclusion of both a USB port and a microSD Card slot, its support for Dolby Mobile audio, and its custom home screen widgets that help organize applications.
The elegant, two-tone Iconia Tab is one of the bulkier tablets available today. The 10.1-inch multitouch display has a black bezel, plus rounded silver edges and backing made of brushed aluminum. The screen is hardly oleophobic, but then, none of the tablets I’ve seen so far can actually do effective battle against the fingerprint monsters.
It runs a 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 250 dual-core processor and has 1GB of RAM. It also has a 10.1-inch, 1280-by-800 pixel display with a 16:10 aspect ratio (great for high-definition content); 16GB of internal eMMC storage (the Xoom has 32GB); and a microSDHC card for up to 32GB of additional storage.
While the device itself can play only 720p high-definition video, the Micro-HDMI port can output video at 1080p; but to get that quality, you’ll have to wait for an over-the-air update due in the second quarter. Acer says the tablet’s two 3260mAh Li-polymer batteries will provide a total of 8 hours of game-play and movie-playback time, or 10 hours of Web browsing over Wi-Fi. We’ll update this review with test results from the PCWorld Labs when they’re available.
Like the Motorola Xoom and T-Mobile G-Slate, the Iconia Tab supports Adobe Flash 10.2, but, as on the G-Slate, you’ll have to follow a link in the Apps Menu to Flash’s Android Market page to download and install the most recent version.
And since there’s still no Android 3.0 version of Facebook, Acer’s solution is to have a browser link to Facebook, right in the Apps menu. At least Acer calls it a link to Facebook, unlike RIM’s approach on the BlackBerry PlayBook (which has app icons for Facebook and other Web services, when those are really just browser links).
For more review, visit www.pcworld.com
Google has finally unveiled Google+, the company’s top secret social layer that turns all of the search engine into one giant social network.
What is it? Is it another social network? Let’s all watch the video below and decide….. 🙂
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