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Launching today, the Xoom will be the first in a tidal wave of Android tablets set to hit the market this year. It's essentially Google's flagship device, kickstarting the category and setting a golden standard for all the high-end Honeycomb products on the way. Android engineers actually used the Xoom to test and develop the Honeycomb OS, and it's considered a "pure Google" product -- meaning you get what Google created, with no manufacturer-added skins or interfaces getting in the way.
Aside from differences in form, Honeycomb -- the operating system debuting on the Xoom -- is the first version of Android that Google actually built with tablets in mind. The software was written from the ground up in order to optimize the Android experience for larger-screen devices.
The Xoom comes with a 5MP rear-facing camera and a 2MP front-facing camera for video chat (which Honeycomb natively supports via Google's Google Talk system). The tablet records 720p HD video and supports 1080p playback. It has HDMI and USB 2.0 ports. And according to Motorola, its Android battery life can give you up to 10 hours of video playback on a single charge.
A Google vice president surprised Kansas University engineering students enrolled in an introductory programming course by handing out a new Android-based tablet computer to each of them on Monday morning.
Brian McClendon, a 1986 electrical engineering graduate from KU, and his wife, Beth Ellyn, donated $50,000 to KU to provide the Motorola Xoom tablets for the 89 students enrolled in the required Programming I class on Monday.
The students will be allowed to keep the tablets provided they receive at least a C in the introductory programming course, complete both Programming I and Programming II, and remain in the electrical engineering and computer science major.
The Xoom 2 is also a bit obsessed with wireless transfer of files. Using the MotoCast desktop app, you can stream and download files from your computer over a Wi-Fi connection, or from anywhere round the world if you leave your PC on. The installation files for this software are included on the tablet itself, showing up as a discrete 70MB drive when plugged in.
The first time your turn on your tablet, you will need to touch Activate to activate your mobile service now (if not already activated), or touch Cancel to set up a Wi-Fi connection. Click here to learn more about Wi-Fi.
About a month or so I bit the bullet and bought my first tablet, the Motorola Xoom. I was going to review it right away but decided to hold off until I got the Blackberry Playbook. Now that I've got them both, I thought I'd share my thoughts with my readers. For those of you who have either of these devices, please chime in and let me know your thoughts as well. This will be a very random, stream of consciousness type review, so pardon the erratic nature of this blog post. (Then again, if you've read any of my reviews, you're probably used to it. ;)
So what about apps? This seems to be the big thing people complain about, especially in comparison to the iPad. Right now there are not a lot of tablet optimized applications. I notice this mostly with TweetDeck. TweetDeck works great when reading your tweets. When posting though you can quickly see how it's not been optimized. 90% of my Xoom's screen is taken up with a textarea that will only hold 145 characters. But I spend more time reading than writing so it isn't a big deal. I do hope that TweetDeck, and others, address this, but it certainly doesn't make the application unusable. Personally I view this as a non-issue. I've found apps for what I want to do - and even when not optimized they work great on the Xoom. I understand though why this may be more of an issue with a casual user expecting more. With more and more apps being released and reports that the Android market will surpass Apple soon, I don't see this as much of a problem.
Random Comment: The camera on the Playbook is horrible. Maybe I just take bad pictures, but I've not been happy with the pictures I've taken with it. Then again - I don't plan on ever using a tablet for pictures I truly care about so it's not that big of a deal. If folks want, I can take a picture with my Xoom and Playbook of the same subject and post them for comparison.
When the iPad first hit the market, it changed the way consumers looked at computing, mobile devices, and productivity. It provided an easy way to accomplish basic tasks, a convenient way to surf the web, and bridged the gap between laptop and smartphone. As the natural competitor to iOS, Android had to fire back with a device that was comparable in function: the Motorola XOOM, the world's first Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) tablet. The XOOM and most subsequent Honeycomb tablets have achieved both form and functionality that rivals - and in most cases, bests - that of the iPad/2, so why hasn't the Android tablet market exploded?
The adoption of Honeycomb tablets has been less than spectacular due to the serious lack of tablet-specific applications. Sure, most apps upscale properly, and that works out fine in some cases (like games, for example), but why should users have to run the same version of Facebook, Twitter, or Google Docs that they run on their phone? Doesn't that almost defeat the purpose of having such a large, beautiful screen? You're damn right it does. The battle isn't lost though, because there are a few simple things that Google can do to help fix this conundrum.
It has been almost two years since Google held an Android Developers Challenge. Dozens of wonderful apps were a direct result of previous dev challenges, and a Honeycomb-specific challenge would be a great way to encourage developers to either create a new tablet-centric app, or incorporate a tablet interface into an existing app. But one of the main purposes of the Android Developers Challenge is to not only encourage the development of better apps, but to get more developers interested in Android as a platform. In order to do this, the application writing process needs to be as simple and functional as possible, which brings me to my next point:
There are so many other points that can spawn from this, but the brick-and-mortar is simple in idea: in order to solidify the success of Android-powered tablets for the future, Google will need to embrace and nurture the development community in addition to providing the tools needed to successfully promote Honeycomb-specific app development. And, with Ice Cream Sandwich on the horizon, now might be the best time to incorporate such a change.
MWC 2011 Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the mobile phone business' most important shindig. It's the launch site not only for new smartphone and new services, but now new tablets too. Here are this year's key products and stories.
RIM boss: 'Our PlayBook shames the You Know What'Nvidia pledges to pass water on Core 2 Duo this summerAcer taps out yet more tabletsHTC takes a flyer on tabletsIntel demos MeeGo 'tablet user experience'Acer shows laptop lid look tabletRim rips 4G out of PlayBook for low-tech nationsMotorola confirms Xoom tablet is Blighty-boundSamsung intros 10in Android tablet
"In the next six months we plan to market a tablet of the highest quality," Schmidt told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. He also saidApple founder and visionary Steve Jobs was "the Michelangelo of our time".
So Google will "market" a high-quality tablet before summer 2012. Note the use of the word "market", as opposed to "make". That suggests Google will throw its advertising weight behind a tablet built by a hardware company, just as it does with its Nexus smart phones.
Note too the use of "highest quality". That means the Google tablet will most likely directly challenge the iPad rather than try to scoop up people who want a cheaper Apple alternative, the strategy employed by Amazon with the affordable Kindle Fire tablet.
Ice Cream Sandwich is the first version of Android designed to work on both tablets and smart phones, so the way is clear for a Nexus tablet alongside the Nexus phone. Perhaps it will be built by Motorola, since Google has just bought Motorola; and even before that buyout was on the cards, Moto was first choice for Honeycomb, the tablet-only version of Android that made its debut on the original Motorola Xoom. 2ff7e9595c
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