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According to Engadget, it was reported that there would be a delay in the launching of the 7-inch Acer Iconia Tab A100. This media tablet will now be available in the market in the later part of 2011.

On Tuesday, the website reported: "We've just been informed by the company that it’s [Google Android] Honeycomb-sporting, [Nvidia] Tegra 2-powered slate will not be arriving, as had been expected, right around now”.

It was reported that Acer already has launched its two tablets A500 and W500 as per schedule. Both of these tablets are available in market or via internet.

It was found that the first Android 3.0 Honeycomb devices are available in New Zealand. The Acer Iconia A500 tablet weighs only 750g, measuring 26cm x 17.5cm and boasting of a 10.1" touch screen with 800 x 1280 pixels. It is available with the storage capacity of 32GB with one GB RAM and it is based on a NVIDIA Tegra 2 platform running at 1GHz. It also has some preloaded games like NFS Shift. Games like NFS Shift can be played just by tilting of the tablet as it consists of a gyrometer.

It is expected that by the end of this year Android will acquire the market leaving behind various OS for cell phones and tablets.