Motorola Xoom - The Original Tablet PC with Android 3.0 (Honeycomb)

In the Consumer Electronics Association (CES) on January 5, 2011, Motorola Xoom was awarded being the best device of the year. It is a tablet PC multimedia player that predicted can become the true challenger of Apple iPad, Blackberry PlayBook or Samsung Galaxy Tab. Motorola Xoom stands out as the 1st tablet that employed the Android Honeycomb OS. In addition, it becomes a model example of Google to advertise Honeycomb designed especially for the tablet product. Below are the technical specs of this PC tablet.

Display

It possesses a 10.1" multitouch capacitive touch screen display, 160 PPI, Gorilla Glass (resistant coating), resolution of 1280x800p as well as aspect ratio of 16:10. It weighs 730 grams having the measurements 249.1 mm tall, 167.8 millimeters wide, and 12.9 mm thick. It provides ambient light sensors, barometer, magnetometer (compass), S-GPS, three-axis accelerometer as well as 3-axis gyroscope.

Processor and OS

This tablet is equipped with Nvidia Tegra 2 T20, 1 Gigahertz dual-core CPU and 1 GB DDR2 of SDRAM. Furthermore, it possesses an internal flash memory of 32 GB and external slot microSD card just after software upgrade. Motorola Xoom is packed with Android 3.0 Honeycomb and it's also upgradable to Android 3.2 version. The update of 3.1 Honeycomb is actually conducted outside of America and it will present essential enhancements which include the activation of Micro SD card slot.

Camera

Motorola Xoom boasts five MP main camera with 4× digital zoom, autofocus, dual LED flash and the 2 megapixels front camera. It can record 720p of video at 30 fps.

Multimedia

The tablet can play AAC, AAC, AMR NB, AMRWB, MP3, as well as XMF music formats and can play H.263, H.264, MPEG4, and also VP8 video formats.

Connectivity

For CDMA product, the tablet runs on EVDO Rev. A network and for the GSM product it operates on GPRS/EDGE Class 12 UMTS/HSDPA. This tablet also comes with Bluetooth 2.1 EDR, micro-HDMI 1.4 (type D), micro-USB 2.0 as well as Wi-Fi capability.

Generally, the Motorola Xoom is the first 10.1-inch tablet which utilizes Android Honeycomb operating system. That is a great-looking tablet computer because it provides a minimalistic style and the screen is wonderful as it is brighter, clearer and it has better quality than the iPad. The capacitive touch screen is incredibly responsive. Additionally, it comes with HD video shooting plus a good quality secondary digital camera for excellent video chats. But, it is quite heavy-weight for a tablet, there's really not much accessory option, and it fails to support flash.

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