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Asus has confirmed that three of its upcoming tablets will be running the next version of the Google mobile operating system, Android 3.0 (Honeycomb).
The Eee Pad tablet will run Honeycomb and will start shipping this summer, Asus spokesman Gary Key told Wired in an e-mail message.
That contradicts a report in The Inquirer, in which Asus Marketing Specialist John Swatton said Asus Android tabletswould not launch until the fall.
Information around hardware requirements and technical specifications for running Honeycomb has been murky at best. It was originally speculated by Korean consumer electronics firm Enspert that Honeycomb would require a dual-core processor in order to run. But according to a Twitter status update sent by Android Open Source Lead Dan Morrill, there’s no “hard minimum processor requirement” to run version 3.0.
By way of comparison, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab is running Android version 2.2 (Froyo), and will be upgradable when Honeycomb is officially released. Motorola’s Xoom tablet will be launching with Honeycomb in the spring. It hasn’t been said if that’s the case for the Eee Pad series or not.
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