Motorola xoom hands on

On January 5th at CES 2011,Verizon Wireless and Motorola unveiled

The Verizon Motorola Xoom enters the Tablet market as the first device powered by the Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system. Featuring a 10.1-in WXGA Touch screen, portrait and landscape virtual QWERTY keyboards and 1GHz Dual Core Processor, the Motorola Xoom is ready to meet your mobile productivity and entertainment demands. 

                                

MOTOROLA XOOM

MOTOROLA  XOOM  andirod tablet which will be released in feb 2011 or in March.

Here are the specs of Motorola xoom .

NETWORK:

2G Network     GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network     HSDPA 2100

DISPLAY:

Type    TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

Size      800 x 1280 pixels, 10.1 inches

 - Multi-touch input method

- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate

- Gyroscope and barometer sensors

SOUNDS:

Alert types          MP3 ringtones

Loudspeaker      Yes, with stereo speakers

3.5mm jack         Yes

MEMORY:

Phonebook        Practically unlimited entries and fields

Call records         N/A

Internal                16/32/64 GB storage, 1 GB RAM

Card slot              microSD, up to 32GB

CONECTIVITY:

GPRS           Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 - 48 kbps

EDGE             Class 12

3G                    HSDPA, 10.1 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps

WLAN              Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band

Bluetooth       Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR

Infrared port      No

USB        Yes, microUSB v2.0

CAMERA:

Primary            5 MP, 2592х1944 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED flash

Video                Yes, 720p@30fps

Secondary           Yes, 2 MP

OS:

OS          Android OS, v3.0 (Honeycomb)

CPU       1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 AP20H Dual Core processor

Messaging          Email, Push Email, IM

Browser               HTML

Radio     No

Games  Yes + downloadable

Colors   Black

GPS        Yes, with A-GPS support

Java       No

Samsung Galaxy S II and Tab II official early

Samsung confirmed its Mobile World Congress plans early with details of its two flagships. The Galaxy Tab II is now slightly larger than the iPad it goes up against with a 10.1-inch, 1280x800 display much like the Motorola Xoom. It uses what should be a stock version of Android 3.0 and runs on a 1GHz (likely dual-core) processor that can record 1080p video from the rear eight-megapixel camera.

The Galaxy S II mostly fits recent expectations and centers on a dual-core 1GHz processor, a sharper 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus screen, HSPA+ 3G and an eight-megapixel camera with 1080p video. It's now known to come with either 16GB or 32GB of included storage and to support mobile HDTV viewing, though in which countries wasn't mentioned.

Software will be a key factor as it will now have the same Music Hub and Readers Hub as the Galaxy Tab along with a Games Hub and the usual Social Hub. More details are expected to come from Samsung's press event in Barcelona this evening.

The Galaxy Tab II sets a potentially high hurdle for the next iPad, its main rival. Most now expect Apple to move to dual-core and to use much faster dual PowerVR SGX543 graphics that could achieve similar 1080p performance. A new iPad could be ready as soon as March or April and might leave Samsung just a short window in which to claim a performance lead.

Motorola Xoom vs iPad vs PlayBook

The New Technology From Motorolla.

When the Motorola Xoom and BlackBerry PlayBook hit the market, we'll have two serious challengers to the iPad.

And, perhaps most interestingly, all three will be running different operating systems. So let's compare how the two newcomers stack up against the hottest tablet yet released.

In terms of releases, Motorola won't say anything about the Xoom's UK release date, though it is pencilled in for the first quarter of 2011 in the US. However, it depends on when Google is planning on getting Honeycomb out the door.

OS

This is the biggest difference between the three tablets. The iPad runs Apple's own iOS, the Moto Xoom Android 3.0 Honeycomb and the BlackBerry PlayBook runs RIM's own bespoke Tablet OS. The Xoom was the main unit used to demo Android 3.0 Honeycomb, at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, though we only saw videos of OS features running on the new device.

• Android 3.0 rumours and latest updates

ANDROID 3.0: This Xoom was just running a video, but the real Honeycomb looks special

There will also be no Motorola MotoBlur interface overlaying Android 3.0 – this could be part of a bigger move by Google to stop having so many variants of Android.

We got hands on with the BlackBerry PlayBookat CES a few weeks ago and it's a serious threat to the iPad's dominance of the sector. TechRadar's Reviews Editor James Rivington says the PlayBook "could well be the tablet that changes the game. In a word, it's a triumph."

Processor

All three units use ARM-based silicon. The iPad runs Apple's own A4 processor clocked at 1GHz (it's less in the iPhone 4), while the Xoom plumps for a dual-core Nvida Tegra 2 processor, capable of 720p video or sending 1080p full HD to your TV via HDMI. The PlayBook is also running a dual core 1GHz Cortex-A9-based processor, though there are no more details on who has manufactured it. It's probably an Nvidia Tegra 2.

Touchcreen

The Motorola Xoom has a 10.1-inch, 1280 x 800 display. The PlayBook is only a 7-inch tablet and to us it can feel small. The touch on the PlayBook does extend right across the bezel though, which is a nice touch and pretty important for navigating around the OS.

The screens on both the PlayBook and Xoom look pretty spectacular even under the bright show lights where we checked them out. The PlayBook's size gives it an advantage though, as we said in our hands on:

"The PlayBook's 1024 x 600 resolution isn't far off the 9.7-inch 1024x768 iPad, but because of the Playbook's 7-inch display, the increased pixel density makes all the difference. It's sharp and crisp, and 1080p HD video looks fabulous."