May 25, 2011 12:16 GMT  ·  By

Rumors about the upcoming release date of the Acer Iconia Tab A100 and Iconia Smart suggest that both devices might be postponed until late summer

It appears that Google has encountered difficulties when it tried to port the Android 3.0 Honeycomb on devices with 7-inch displays.

Given the fact that Honeycomb was originally designed to work on devices with 10-inch displays, it seems that there are compatibility issues that Google is trying hard to solve.

Simply put, Acer discovered that most of the applications aren't compatible with its 7-inch Iconia Tab A100 tablet.

Even though Acer thinks that the 7-inch tablets target the female users, the company doesn't want to release a device with an old software on board, as sources cited by Digitimes suggest.

Taiwanese manufacturer HTC has been forced to postpone its EVO View 4G as well. The U.S. version of the HTC Flyer has yet to receive a release date.

The rest of the 7-inch tablets already available on the market are running either Android 2.2 Froyo or 2.4 Gingerbread, but most of them are expected to receive the Honeycomb software upgrade as soon as Google launch it worldwide.

Acer Iconia Tab A100 with Honeycomb was initially slated for a May release and features the manufacturer's proprietary Acer UI.

The tablet is equipped with NVIDIA's dual-core Tegra 2 processor and packs 512 MB RAM, 8GB of internal memory and microSD card slot for memory expansion (up to 32GB).

On related news, according to the latest hearsay, Acer decided to move the Iconia Smart launch from May to July due to components shortage arising from the catastrophic events in Japan.

If nothing else goes wrong, we might see the Iconia Tab A100 launched some time in August-September, while the Iconia Smart should be ready for release one month earlier.

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