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Acer Android 3.1 update leaks out early

Honeycomb goodness for all

Acer's Android 3.1 Honeycomb update for its 10in Iconia Tab A500 tablet has leaked out ahead of schedule.

Originally expected to debut in a week or so, the update file was this weekend spotted on an Acer server in China, downloaded, uploaded elsewhere, and tinkered with to create custom ROMs.

Android 3.1 on Acer A500

The cat is well and truly out of the bag.

Although aimed at Chinese users, the update is multi-lingual, and brings to the tablet features seen on Motorola's Xoom and Asus' Eee Pad Transformer. ®

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so what's new

I can't see much difference in the images to what I've got here (although of course my desktop is much tidier...). If they've fixed the occasional power off on to wake up issue I'll be very happy.

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boobies

"and brings to the tablet features seen on Motorola's Xoom"

Yeah, if you own a US or (as of this week) Japenese Xoom that is, every other Xoom owner is still stuck on the very buggy 3.0.1.

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@AC 16:32

There's no accounting for taste

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Anonymous Coward

Is it me

Or does that screenshot of the desktop just look like a mess?

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