Give A Great Big Welcome To The Motorola Xoom!

Honeycomb, here we come

Jan 6 2011, 10:37am CST | by Mark Raby

Give A Great Big Welcome To The Motorola Xoom!

Samsung's Galaxy Tab is great and all, but by this time next year it will have an outdated version of Android and be totally overlooked by all the other tablets...one of them being the Motorola Xoom.

It's the Xoom tablet (yes, pronounced "Zoom") and it comes with all the trimmings. There's a 1 GHz Tegra II processor, 1 GB of DDR2 RAM, a 7-inch display, and 720p HD playback capability. It also...drumroll please...has Android 3.0, also known as Honeycomb.

We all thought Honeycomb was far from being finished at this point, but the Xoom is expected to come out in the first quarter of this year. Needless to say, it will be one of the first devices tailored to the more robust, more streamlined version of Google's operating system.

The Droid moniker is actually owned by Verizon, so it isn't Motorola's to use. But the Xoom will initially have 3G service only with Verizon. The fact that it decided to forego the incredibly valuable brand leads us to believe Motorola may be eying other service providers down the road.

But we'll focus on Verizon right now. Since its 4G network is still kind of nascent, the Xoom will not launch with 4G capabilities, however it is apparently going to be upgradeable, though firmware patches, to connect to the new high-speed network later this year.

Other features of the Xoom include a rear and front camera for video calls and taking pictures, as well as integrated video chat support for the pre-installed Google Talk app. It also has an HDMI out port, so you can watch your HD content in 1080p on any HDTV.

We know it looks cool. We now it sounds great. The only thing we don't know is how much it'll cost. That one little detail will be revealed at a later time.

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Mark Raby
Based in New York City, Mark follows the consumer electronics industry like a hawk. A published book author, he has a particular affinity for 3D technology and video games, and as such will surely be in the market for a new pair of glasses soon. Mark can be contacted directly at mark@i4u.com.