Acer Iconia Tab A500 Android Honeycomb Tablet for $450. Priced Low Enough?

I’ve been writing for many months that tablet computers need to be more than simply better than the iPad. The iPad has first mover advantage as well as a immense and rich app market. To compete with the iPad a tablet needs to be both better and cheaper. No one seems to have gotten that second part of the equation until now.

Acer Honeycomb Tablet Landing April 24 for $449.99 (Mashable)

Acer’s Android OS 3.0 (Honeycomb) tablet has the basic specs to compete with the low-end 16GB WiFi-only iPad 2 down.

– Dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor
– 10.1

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