Acer has officially launched the Iconia Tab A500 over at Malaysia. The A500 is the Windows version of the tablet, and for the Android 3.0 version A500, Acer will be launching it shortly after. Report from Lowyat.NET says that the Honeycomb preloaded into the A500 is not running smoothly at times, although apps are running fine, which might explain the delay of the A500 Android version.

The 10.1-inch Iconia Tab A500 tablet is a Windows tablet running on Nvidia Tegra 2 SoC with 1GB of memory and 16GB of storage capacity. The tablet has a resolution of 1280 x 800 which is similar to Motorola Xoom. There’s a 5-Megapixel back camera that supports HD video recording, but no front camera seen. Of course, port wise there’s the usual micro USB and HDMI-D which will let you plug directly to your HDTV. Battery life is expected to be 8-hours.

The A500 is made of unibody aluminum, but is much thicker than the iPad. The back is said to be rather slippery due to the material used and the weight of the tablet. Hopefully a case will solve this issue and not make the tablet too bulky. The A500 Iconia tablet is said to retail from RM 1,599 ($529, WiFi-only model) to RM 1,999 ($659, 3G model).

Acer also gave Lowyat.NET a sneak peak of the 7-inch version Iconia tablet and a 4.6-inch smartphone prototype. There’s not much info given here, other than the 7-inch will retail from RM 1,099 to RM 1,499 ($360 – $499).

SOURCE via Lowyat.NET