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Acer Iconia Tab A200 vs Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9

General Info

Manufacturer
Acer Amazon
Announced
January 2012 September 2012
Status
Available - January 2012 Available - October 2012
Colors
Black Black
Form Factor
Candybar Candybar
Dimension
260 x 175 x 12.4 mm
(10.24 x 6.89 x 0.49 in)
240 x 164 x 8.8 mm
(9.45 x 6.46 x 0.35 in)
Weight
700 g (24.69 oz) 567 g (20 oz)
2G Network
N/A N/A
3G Network
N/A
Messaging
, Push Mail, EMail, IM , Push Mail, EMail, IM

Display

Type
Capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen
Colors
16M colors 16M colors
Size
10.1 inches [Similar] 8.9 inches [Similar]
Resolution
800 x 1280 pixels (149 ppi) [Similar] 1920 x 1200 pixels (254 ppi)
Screen-to-Body Ratio
65.40% 58.54%
Multi-Touch

Hardware and OS

OS
Android OS, v3.2 (Honeycomb), planned upgrade to v4.0 Android OS, v4.0 (customized)
Processor
Dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A9, Nvidia Tegra 2 T20 [Similar] Dual-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A9, TI OMAP 4470 [Similar]
GPU
ULP GeForce [Similar] PowerVR SGX544 [Similar]
RAM
2 [Browse Similar] 1 GB [Browse Similar]
Internal Memory
8/16 GB storage, 1 GB DDR 16/32 GB storage
External Memory
microSD, up to 32GB No

Camera

Rear Camera
2 MP, 1600x1200 pixels [Similar] 1.3 MP, 1280 x 1024 pixels [Similar]
Flash
No No
Features
Video-calling -
Video
Yes No
Front Camera
No [Similar] No [Similar]

Multimedia

3.5mm Jack
Radio
No No
Games
Yes Yes + Downloadable
Loud Speaker

Connectivity and Data Rate

GPRS
No No
Edge
No No
3G
No No
Bluetooth
Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR Yes, with A2DP
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band
USB
Yes, microUSB v2.0, USB v2.0, USB On-the-go suppor Yes, v2.0
GPS
No No
Browser
HTML, Adobe Flash HTML5 (Amazon Silk)

User Memory

Internal
8/16 GB storage, 1 GB DDR2 RAM 16/32 GB storage, 1 GB RAM
Expandable Storage
microSD, up to 32GB No
USB OTG
Supported -

Sensors

Fingerprint
Proximity Sensor
Accelerometer Sensor
NFC

Battery

Type
Standard battery, Li-Po Non-removable Li-Ion battery (22.2 Wh)
Capacity
3260 mAh 6000 mAh
Stand by
-
Talk Time
Up to 8 h Up to 10 h
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