Tablet Computer Review- Motorola's Xoom

Many commentators on the tech scene have predicted 2011 would be the year of the tablet computer following the smashing success of Apple's i-Pad. Introduced in March 2010, the i-Pad continued to market 15 million units throughout all of those other year. To not be outdone this season, many businesses are rushing their very own versions of the tablet computer to promote, but none is more anticipated than Motorola's Xoom.

What's so special about Motorola's Xoom? To begin with, this tablet computer runs the Android operating-system, created by Google and right now familiar to millions via its Android smart phones. The Xoom introduces innovation in the operating-system. Nicknamed Honeycomb, the officially-titled system, the Android 3. 0, is created specifically by Google for the tablet computer, maybe not the smartphone.

For all those focused on the Apple group of products and services, the brand new operating-system might not mean much. But, Apple includes a method of clinging to its clients by making interchange between Apple-based products and services and any the others difficult or even impossible. Many who're fed up with the i-Pod that will play only i-Tunes or the i-Pad which prefers Safari will rejoice at a non-sticky device like the Xoom.

May be the Xoom merely an Android-based i-Pad clone? Maybe not with a long shot, while the Xoom has many features maybe not contained in the i-Pad. The Xoom has two cameras, for example, a low-resolution on the leading for video chatting and a 5-megapixel hd on the rear to take images or video. The Xoom also offers stereo speakers, maybe not mono, and an extended battery life-up to 10 hours, an excellent feature for watching videos on its brilliant screen. Additionally, it comes with an HDMI cable so the contents of the tablet computer can be seen on a hi-def TELEVISION. That's great.

Undoubtedly the best innovation, though, is what's hidden underneath the dashboard of the tablet computer. It is a dual-core processor meaning blazing speed and better game animation. Motorola has indicated that later this season the Xoom will receive a computer software upgrade letting it access Verizon's 4G network in certain cities. This way, the tablet computer will require over a lot more of the tasks formerly relegated to the laptop. It might take a couple of years, but pundits happen to be predicting the demise of both laptop and the smartphone in support of the tablet computer.

Great while the Xoom is, it will have a minumum of one serious negative: price. The Xoom will definitely cost abut $800 which will be about $70 a lot more than the 32-gigabyte, Wi-Fi-equipped iPad. The price, obviously, explains both cameras and the blazing speed of the brand new processor and operating-system.

And, about this operating-system: such as the Android smartphone, to place it absolutely, the 3. 0 does just take a little bit of used to, or to say this negatively, the 3. 0 includes a steep learning curve. This isn't your Daddy's Windows, however it does bear a far more than passing resemblance to the Android smartphone. Users familiar with their Android smart phones will feel at ease with familiar capabilities such as for example voice recognition and Navigation. Additionally, it may run Flash applications that the i-Pad can't do. So far as tablet computers go, Xoom is at this time leading the pack.