Motorola Xoom. Hands on With the Motorola XOOM Tablet With Video. Motorola captured the attention of a lot of people with the unveiling of the XOOM tablet at CES.
The Motorola XOOM is a 10.1-inch tablet, powered by the Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core processor, that is running Android 3.0 (Honeycomb). I attended a luncheon thrown by Verizon to talk about its LTE network, and lo and behold there was a Motorola XOOM on display. Products > MOTOROLA XOOM™ Android 3.0 Preview. Screenshot Tour of Android 3.0 Honeycomb, Built for Tablets. I hate that all new tablets are really pushing for landscape orientation as the standard.
For me, using a tablet in portrait orientation fells much more natural. @macpatrik: Really? I find myself using my iPad in landscape, like, 99% of the time. The only time I *don't* use it in landscape is when I'm reading comic books. @Whitson Gordon: Since, for me, the thing the iPad is used most for is browsing, the way I hold it entirely depends on the site. Motorola Xoom launching February 17th at Best Buy (update: priced at $700) When we stumbled upon an $800 price for the Motorola Xoom yesterday, our instinctive reaction was to leap forward to the next obvious question: when?
Well, that call has now been answered by an internal Best Buy document that's just dropped into our inbox, which explicitly pinpoints February 17th as the launch date for Moto's highly touted, Honeycomb-equipped tablet. Stock is expected to land at the big box retailer on February 16th, with the big party going down the day after. There's a note confirming that the Xoom will come with its promised 32GB of onboard storage, but anyone looking for confirmation or denial of the earlier pricing leak will be left disappointed.