Motorola Officially Drops the Veil off its Tablet Xoom

Motorola showcased its 1GHz nVidia Tegra 2 dual-core processor powered tablet Xoom at the CES (Consumer Electronic Show), Las Vegas, today the 6 January 2011. The Xoom runs on Google’s tablet-optimized Operating System, Android 3.0 Honeycomb. It also has a 10.1-inch touchscreen with a 1280×800 resolution, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a camera with 2 MP in front and a 5 MP one at the rear (supports 720p video recording), a 1080p Full HD video playback, an HDMI slot, Adobe Flash Player, 32GB of built-in storage upgradable using SD cards and many more features.

Motorola Xoom also features Google’s other new services like the 3D version of Google Maps, Google e-Books, music, videos and the Android market too. Even more features include:

  • Bluetooth 2.1
  • Wi-Fi 2.4GHz & 5GHz 802.11b/g/n
  • A 3.5mm audio jack
  • AAC, AAC+, AMR NB, AMR WB, MP3, XMF support
  • Battery that can withstand 10 hour video playback etc.

Xoom weighs 730 g and has a dimension of 249.1mm (h) x 167.8mm (w) x 12.9mm (d). It ensures to run faster than most of the currently available tablets in the market. Some even touts it as the new ‘iPad killer’! Well, with such features and power, one would.

Xoom is expected to be available for the public by the end of March as 3G/Wi-Fi device and by the second quarter it will be upgraded to 4G LTE. However, its price has not been announced so far, so if you want to go ahead and guess, make sure you put all these features in mind. Sleek and loaded with speed and features galore, Xoom will make it hard to wait for gadget lovers till March arrives.

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