My son's Acer tablet is back with us a week earlier than expected and is working great. Everything is back to normal in the Hendrix household. No, it wasn't that bad with it out of the house. They just had to take turns using Katherine's tablet. Best Buy said they updated the system and fixed the power button. Everything seems to be working great. We had to reload the games back on to the tablet, but that didn't bother my son at all. He was able to search through countless games in the app store. He put some of his old games back on and chose some new ones too. Needless to say, he wasn't heart broken at all. After all this, I would still recommend the Acer tablet. It is a cool little machine!

This is Andrew with his karate teachers.

My children have been taking karate for three years. They started the summer before their third grade year. This year they will be going into the 6th grade. Karate has taught them a lot about self discipline, as well as given them self confidence. I hope they will never have to use what they have learned, but it is there if needed. They have just recently received their Jr. black belt. This is a big accomplishment! My son entered his first competition this past Saturday. He came out with first place in Katas. He placed 2nd place in weapons and 2 Man-Kata. He also placed third in sparing and board breaking. He won a trophy for best overall with his Kata. My daughter decided she didn't want to compete. Which I can understand completely. She was there, though, cheering on her brother! Karate has been great for both of them.

Okay, after going on and on about how wonderful the Acer tablet is, we ended up having to take it back to the store. Before I begin, I do want to say that for the biggest part, it was our fault. In order to access the apps store you must first have a Google account. Well, my 11 year old son created the account, wrote the user name down, but not the password. We didn't think too much about it until he decided six months later to use this to gain access to his tablet. Once he activated this on his Acer and we attempted to access it too many times, well, I guess you probably already know...it labeled it as "too many patterned attempts". We contacted Google trying to see if they would send us the password. Unfortunately, my son couldn't remember where he put his username, so we took a guess and gave Google the wrong information. That did not get us very far at all. We did end up finding his user name, a little too late. The only thing we knew to do was take it back to Best Buy. The gentleman was very nice and helpful. He did discover that the "power" button was not working properly, that is why I said it wasn't entirely our fault. After 30 minutes and several attempts to unlock/reset it, we were told it would have to be sent off for "repair". It should be back in two weeks. Lesson learned: don't let an 11 year old set up any kind of account and expect them to write down or remember their password. We also found out that since a one year manufacture's service plan was purchased with the device, it had to be sent off for repair. However, if the device would have been bought without the extra one year manufacture's service plan, the store would have simply exchanged it for a new one. Hmm?

My children recently received the Acer Iconia Tablet for their birthday. This is the first technological device that has entered our house other than our Dell computer and basic cell phones. So we were very excited to actually hold one of these magnificent icons of technology. We found ourselves starring at it like it was foreign, and in many ways, it was. We looked through the book hoping to magically become totally enlightened about everything thing this device was capable of doing. Unfortunately, we were greatly disappointed. So over the next few days we spent time exploring and researching the tablet online. This is truly a great machine. Our children have had learned so much playing the many games available for the Android based tablet.

              

If you are thinking about getting a tablet and don’t want to sink a whole lot of money into one and want a great product. I suggest the Acer tablet. It is very light weight and smaller than a magazine. It is not as big as an iPad, but some reviews have stated that people that have had both prefer to carry the Acer with them on trips because it isn’t as big and bulky as the iPad. The graphics are amazing. It has rear facing and front facing cameras that take great pictures. It also has a SD card slot to expand its memory. It has 8GB of flash memory and the battery life is pretty good. There are thousands of apps that can be downloaded from the app store. Over all I would say the Acer Iconia Tablet is a great product for the money.