Reflections and comments from an Old Timer in the Technology World.
Just thought I would share with you a link to what’s inside the Acer Iconia A500. Bill Detwiler Head Technology editor of TechRepublic has done a marvellous job of opening up the A500 16GB Iconia Tablet and providing 68 images of his exploration. I was interested in where the GPS antenna was located. Image 25 shows the Antenna, a long […] Read more »
Today I used my Iconia A500 GPS for first time in 4 weeks! I received a fix within 4 minutes. However the Altitude at my location is 262m once the fix occurred it was showing a height ASL of only 20m and this progressively increased for the next 17 minutes to reach 262m. I had fixes from 9 satellites. Not […] Read more »
The days tick by as we all wait for ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) for the Acer Iconia A500. It’s been reported on many other blogs that Acer NZ has announced that it will be available in April. The Acer Iconia A200 received it’s update on 6th March via OTA (Over The Air) so I guess Acer will wait whilst the […] Read more »
Update Acer_A500_7.014.15_ COM_GEN1 has just arrived [7 Mbytes] this evening this takes the Acer component in Australia to 7.014.15 up from 7.014.03 one point up from the 7.014.14 reported in my previous post for UK Tablets. I have no idea what this has fixed or any new features. I will post if I find out any more info on this […] Read more »
I have just received the latest update in Australia also the UK received 2 updates. From one of my commenter’s Paul, he notes that he received 2 updates. Android went from Version 3.2 to 3.2.1 fixing the ‘Local’ issue and now supports DD/MM/YY format in Settings. Also The Acer version UK update went from Acer_A500_7_006.01_COM_GEN1 to Acer_A500_7_014.14_COM_GEN1 So the UK has after […] Read more »