Creative have announced availability of Android 2.2 on their ZiiO tablets.

Current Creative ZiiO 7” owners will be able to enjoy a free upgrade via support.creative.com or at ZiiO Space portal creative.com/ziiospace/ found on their tablets, beginning 25 March 2011.

From today onwards, all new 7″ units shipping will have Android 2.2. The Creative ZiiO 10” is expected to ship with Android 2.2 by April 2011.

New features of Android 2.2 are:

• Install apps either using on-board memory or external storage media
• View pages in both desktop and mobile formats – which means that pages can now be seen in their original lay-out without truncation
• Improved security with the addition of numeric pin or alpha-numeric password options to unlock the device
• Greater localised language support added
• Text-to-Speech Engine