Featuring Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G options, the W500 will also be available with a docking keyboard, if you so wish. But even though this keyboard can be used as a magnetic cover, the main feature would be the netbook appearance. Some might not agree, finding the netbook thicker opposed to the thin tablet appearance.

Reg Hardware has taken a look at Acer’s ‘missing’ tablet strategy, which has been covered over 3-pages. They look at what powers both the Tablet PCs, and how the processor and graphic inwards compare. You can expect 6-hours web browsing and 4-hours video viewing on the W500.

Read the full review here, and while there is no price for the Acer A500 with Wi-Fi + 3G, it is expected that both versions, running Windows and Android 3.0, will ship in April. Currently this should be treated as rumor only, as Google may have other ideas for when we get a piece of Honeycomb.

Let us know what you think of Acer’s tablet strategy in the comments. Will this brand be your next tablet?

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However, as previously mentioned by Peter Chubb, Motorola revealed both the tablet and its official name during this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. As mentioned over on the Motorola.com website, the Xoom is the first tablet PC to feature a dual-core processor.

The Motorola Xoom also comes with 1GB of internal memory, support for Adobe Flash Player, a 10.1-inch widescreen display, front and rear (5-megapixel) facing cameras, a HD camcorder, a front facing webcam and video playback in 720p HD.

Although we still don’t seem to know a specific release date for the Motorola Xoom, we do know that it’s been narrowed down to a specific month. According to Alex Wagner over at phonedog.com, a Wi-Fi only version of the Motorola Xoom is due for release sometime in April 2011.

This news has also been confirmed over on the mibz.com website. However, it also mentions the Verizon Motorola Xoom launch date, which appears to be sometime in May. What do you think of the new tablet PC, and will you be purchasing one?

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At the moment most Android smartphones and tablets feature a home button, a menu button, a back button and a search button (see below), however it looks like Android 3.0 Honeycomb will not require physical keys, instead it will feature dedicated softkeys.

Below we can see a sneak peak at the Motorola Stingray‘s UI, it does not show a lot, but does show a back, home and menu button, supposedly these will move when you have the tablet at a different orientation.

Whilst removing physical buttons from Android devices and replacing them with softkeys sounds like a small change it will drastically affect how people will use their tablets and smartphones, personally I feel that there is nothing wrong with the 3 or 4 physical buttons currently used as they can seriously improve productivity, but that said physical buttons tend to be more prone to going wrong than softkeys, also they somewhat limit a device’s design.

Taylor Martin at PhoneDog suggests that if Apple decided against a physical key-less tablet and smartphone there must be a reason behind it, therefore he seems doubtful about the idea.

It could well be that Google decide to require physical buttons with the final Honeycomb build, however for now we can assume that they are really planning to mix things up, I guess time will tell to see if this is really a good idea or not.

Do you think Android Honeycomb devices should feature physical buttons?

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As reported from RedmondPie, there is also an image of the handset in question, thought to have surfaced from Russia. The provided picture is pretty slick we’d agree, but it is the rumored specs which will really get you excited.

Presuming these details are true, the Samsung Galaxy S2 will run on Android 3.0 (Gingerbread?) and will feature a 2Ghz processor and 1GB of RAM combined with 4GB ROM.

Other specs include a full HD 8 megapixel camera, 32GB internal memory, 1080p video recording, Bluetooth 3.0, GPS, a gryoscope and an accelerometer.

Pretty impressive don’t you think? Then again, the picture could just be a very nice photoshop and the specs could be a hoax. Either way, we hope Samsung is making this.

What are your thoughts on these monster specs?

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As reported from BGR, the news is according to this article from Digitimes, who have also said that HTC’s tablet will be released to the public sometime during the first quarter of 2011.

It looks like 2011 is going to be a busy year in terms of tablet releases. We have already heard rumors on Verizon’s Android tablet, while Apple may even drop the iPad 2 next Summer.

At the moment though, this is still a rumor until HTC say otherwise, or unless we get some real proof of this device. Let us know your thoughts on this.

Would you buy a HTC tablet?

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As you would imagine there has been many rumors already concerning Android 3.0 Gingerbread, such as its release date and its list of features. We cannot be certain how much truth there is in these features, but they certainly give us some idea what to expect.

A recent post on Neowin suggests that the update will be available in Q3, just in time for Black Friday and will have features centered on tablet devices –that’s according to UnwiredView. There are suggestions that the smaller handsets will not benefit from Gingerbread – but we have to remember that this is all speculation.

There are a few hardware requirements, such as 1Ghz CPU and 512MB of RAM. Displays have to be 3.5-inches and larger and will be less reliant on third-party UI interfaces. For more details visit Neowin via the link above.

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