Motorola Xoom & Android 3.0
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The Motorola Xoom is the first tablet to bring Google's Android operating system to the big screen. The presence of Android 3.0 Honeycomb means it's dripping with sweet features, but being an early adopter has its drawbacks. Finding the right apps is tougher than it ought to be, and, despite plenty of thoughtful tweaks, Android still feels cramped in places. The 10.1-inch Xoom also feels heavy, especially compared to the wafer-thin iPad 2 .
Hands on With the Motorola XOOM Tablet With Video | ZDNet
Motorola Xoom priced at $799 http://www.technews5.com/2011/02/official-motorola-xoom.html In case you missed it, last weekend Best Buy briefly had Motorola's upcoming Xoom tablet priced at $1,199.99 on its Web site, announcing it would be available for preorder on February 17. Well, as rumors suggested, that price tag was only "placeholder" pricing, and Motorola Mobility's CEO Sanjay Jha today confirmed that the 10.1-inch tablet would sell for an unsubsidized $799 at Verizon Wireless, with a Wi-Fi-only version priced at around $600.MOTODEV > Products > MOTOROLA XOOM™
Introducing the first tablet with Android™ v3.0, now with 4G LTE speed. With a brilliant 10.1-inch display optimized for high definition video in true 16:9 widescreen format, Motorola XOOM™ provides a whole new media experience for mobile uses. By taking advantage of the NVIDIA Tegra dual-core chipset, everything moves faster: web browsing, video playback, gaming. Native support for both front and rear cameras provides easy access to either one. The addition of a gyroscope, along with a powerful graphics engine and built-in hardware acceleration, elevates game design to a whole new level. Motorola XOOM pushes the boundaries and opens a whole new world of what’s possible.
Google gave us a glimpse of Android 3.0 Honeycomb earlier this year, but today they released more details on the upcoming OS. Here's a look through what we can expect. Spoiler alert: It's awesome, and it fixes many of Android's biggest annoyances. The Tablet UI The biggest change in Android 3.0 is the general layout of the UI. Since it's built specifically for tablets, you have much more space on your home screen for icons and widgets.
Screenshot Tour of Android 3.0 Honeycomb, Built for Tablets
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.
Motorola Xoom launching February 17th at Best Buy (update: priced at $700) -- Engadget