subject: Motorola Xoom - The Very First Pc Tablet With Android 3.0 (honeycomb) [print this page] In the Consumer Electronics Association (CES) on January 5, 2011, Motorola Xoom was awarded as the finest device of the year. This is a tablet multimedia player which predicted may become the real competitor of Apple iPad, Blackberry PlayBook or Samsung Galaxy Tab. Motorola Xoom is the original tablet PC that used the Android Honeycomb OS. It also becomes a model example of Google to promote Honeycomb built especially for the tablet device. Below are the specs of this tablet.
Display
It features a 10.1-inch multi-touch capacitive touch-screen display, 160 PPI, Gorilla Glass (proof coating), image resolution of 1280x800px as well as aspect ratio of 16:10. This tablet weighs 730 grams having the measurements 249.1 mm in height, 167.8 mm in width, and also 12.9 mm in thickness. It contains ambient light sensors, barometer, magnetometer (compass), S-GPS, 3-axis accelerometer and 3-axis gyroscope.
Processor and Operating System
This PC tablet has Nvidia Tegra 2 T20, 1 GHz dual-core CPU and 1 GB DDR2 of SDRAM. Furthermore, it features an integrated flash memory of 32 gigabytes and additional slot microSD card soon after software update. Motorola Xoom is packed with Android 3.0 Honeycomb and it's upgradable to Android 3.2 version. The update of 3.1 Honeycomb is actually conducted just outside of United States and it can certainly provide substantial developments that include the activation of SD card slot.
Camera
Motorola Xoom comes along with five Megapixels primary camera along with 4 digital zoom, auto-focus, dual LED flash along with the two megapixels front camera. It could record 720p of video at 30 fps.
Multimedia
This tablet can play AAC, AAC , AMR NB, AMRWB, MP3, and XMF music formats and can play H.263, H.264, MPEG4, and also VP8 video formats.
Connections
For CDMA version, this tablet operates on EVDO Rev. A network and for the GSM product this tablet runs 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 plus Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n.
In general, the Motorola Xoom will likely be the 1st 10.1" PC tablet that makes use of OS Honeycomb. This is usually a stylish tablet PC because it contains a minimalistic design and also the display screen is incredible because it is brighter, sharper and it has better quality compared to the iPad. The capacitive touch-screen is incredibly sensitive. It also comes with HD video recording and a high-quality front facing camera for great video chats. But, it is quite heavy-weight for a tablet, there isn't much accessories selection, and it fails to support flash.
