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Acer A500 to get the Android 4.0 treatment

Acer's Android tab looks set to join the cool kids with an Ice Cream Sandwich update

Acer has just announced that its shiny A500 slate will be getting a dollop of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich come April.

The announcement, made my Acer Australia and New Zealand, isn’t very forthcoming with the specifics – so we don’t have an exact rollout date – but Acer has promised that we’ll find out soon.

As the announcement comes all the way from the other side of the world, it’s unclear whether Ice Cream Sandwich will be rolled out to A500 owners in the US and Europe at the same time. We’d be surprised if it isn’t, though.

The A500 ICS update follows hot on the heels of the Iconia A200, which got its first taste of the new Android OS very recently.

When we reviewed Acer’s A500, we felt it was lacking a stand out feature – could Android 4.0 fill the void?

In other news, Acer’s Iconia A700 – which debuted at CES – is expected to make an appearance at MWC in Barcelona to flaunt its 10in ICS-toting wares, alongside Acer’s new flagship ICS smartphone – the CloudMobile.

Of course, we’ll be in Barcelona breaking all the MWC news as and when it happens, so keep your peepers peeled and check back in with Stuff.tv for all the details. 

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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