The Mobile Tablet market has remained firmly in the hands of Apple and their iPad but the new Xoom is already causing ripples in the PC sector. Xoom will be the first machine to run on the Android 3.0 Honeycomb platform, aka “Honeycomb”.
It has a 10.1 inch display that offers 1280x 800pixels of resolution; it measures 249.0x167.8x12.9mm in dimensions and offers net connectivity of EVDO and Wi-Fi. It also has Bluetooth for data transfer and uses Nvidia CPU and an Nvidia Tegra GPU.
The above photo shows a glimpse at the upcoming Android interface for tablets. The browser, gallery, Gmail application and all in this programmed in a way that is more useful for a tablet user. Motorola Xoom is internally powered by the latest NVIDIA Tegra 2: 1GHz dual-core processor. Therefore, watching HD videos, playing games and browsing through complex web pages would be a great experience in its 10.1 inch 1280×800 pixels touch screen. This processor supports 1080p HD playback and has inbuilt NVIDIA GeForce graphics. Motorola XOOM comes with a 5MP rear camera with 720p HD video recording capability and 2MP front camera for making video calls. Xoom will have 32GB of on-board memory, external SD card support and 1GB DDR2 RAM. Motorola Xoom has the support for 4G/LTE network. The device will be upgraded to 4G/LTE from Q2 of 2011 onwards. Other important specifications of Motorola Xoom includes, a battery with up-to 10 hour video playback, 3.5mm, micro USB 2.0 HS, Corporate Sync, Wi-Fi 2.4GHz & 5GHz 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR + HID, Flash playback, inbuilt Google applications, etc.
