May 10, 2011 04:01 pm EDT

Google announces Android 3.1, available on Verizon Xoom today

Google has just announced Android 3.1, and it's rolling out to Verizon Xoom 3G customers today. It brings with it resizeable widgets, and a new host mode that will let you import photos to your tablet directly from your digital camera, and take advantage of a "ridiculous" number of USB devices, even including an Xbox 360 controller. It also includes Google's new Movies app that will let you rent thousands of movies from the Android market, and it will be hitting Google TV as well sometime "this summer." There's still no word on when it will hit non-Xoom 3G tablets, although Google did mention that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 that it's giving away to everyone at IO will be getting the update in the "next couple of weeks."

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