June 17, 2013

Acer Iconia B1-A71 - Prices are affordable with Latest OS


Acer apparently interested to play cheap tablet segment with the launch of Iconia B1, With a minimum price you can have a 1.2 GHz dual core tablet.

Iconia B1 designed using plastic material, body B1 easy to leave fingerprints, the same thing also happened on the screen that can easily be soiled by the touch of your finger.


This tablet dimension 197.5 x 128.5 x 11.3 mm with a weight of 320gr. In the vertical position, will find standard port 3.5 mm audio jack on the top, memory card slot and microUSB port at the bottom side. While the power button and volume control located on the right side.

Iconia B1-A71 using TFT Capacitive Multi-touchscreen, as most important part of a tablet, Acer preparing 7-inch LCD screen with a WSVGA resolution (1024 x 600) which has a pixel density of about 170 ppi. With a capacitive touch screen technology which could receive up to a five-point touch input simultaneously. Unfortunately the tablet is not equipped with an ambient light sensor, which serves as an automatic brightness control. In general, the ability of the screen used B1 Iconia is nothing special especially when used outdoors with direct sunlight.

Acer Iconia B1-A71 using the MTK processor dual core 1.2 GHz which is equipped with 512MB of RAM. As for storing images or multimedia collection, acer providing total internal storage space of 8 GB with 5 GB of free use by the user.

For power requirements, Iconia B1 only provided by acer with Li-Ion battery capacity of 2720mAh. However, the tablet is not equipped with a connection to the mobile network, so if used in reasonable condition, B1 standby time will seem longer than tablets with cellular connections.


To enjoy the song, you can use Google play music that is equipped with equalizer settings, bass booster and 3D effects. With speaker holes are located on the back, B1 can produce sound with quality standards

While to watch the video, you should be quite satisfied with default video player android, you will not be able to adjust the brightness or choose the view mode of the video you watch.


Iconia B1-A71 using Jelly Bean Android 4.1.2 as its operating system which generally carries the standard Android interface. Acer just do a little customization in the notification bar by adding a shortcut setiing like WiFi, Auto-rotate, and so on. When you first turn on the tablet and connect to the internet using WiFi Iconia B1 then it will ask you to register online in order to activate Acer's product warranty.

Iconia B1 homescreen consists of five pages that you can customize by adding a shortcut or widget. Entering the page menu, you will see the standard Android menu which consists of two categories respectively apps and widgets.

B1 also offers Jelly Bean unique features such as Google Now, which is now presenting weather information, driving directions, traffic info, scores favorite games, agenda, currency exchange rates, etc., were taken based on the location information, email and user behavior. Whereas for other applications include Google Current acer only allowing you to subscribe to news from leading global media.

For camera Iconia B1 only has a front camera 0.3 pixels resolution that can be used to detect faces in the face unlock feature which is a standard safety feature that began to be used on android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

Although capturing the image using a tablet is not a common thing to do, but the rear camera on a tablet is usually used to scan the document. For video chats or video calls using the front camera, the resulting image quality is very poor. But strangely though only has a front camera with  minimum resolution B1 comes with video editing features, Movie Studio.

Equipped with standard android browser, to explore the virtual world B1-A71 is equipped with chrome for android that offers Internet browsing experience is directly synchronized with chrome browser for desktop PC that can open up to 16 tabs at once.


For connection to a PC, has been included in the sales package data cable that also serves as a charger cable. While to transfer data wirelessly, you can use Bluetooth.

Relying on price as the main attraction, Acer seems to target the lower class segment who want a cheap tablet with the latest OS and decent performance. Unfortunately cheap price must be redeemed in the absence of a 3G connection. For those of you who are more likely to use a tablet for playing games or watching video, this tablet seems to be very suitable for you.

0 comments:

Post a Comment