Motorola's Xoom Wi Fi - a new Tablet for US Market

Motorola’s Xoom Wi-Fi is coming to the US on March 27 to rival Apple’s iPad 2 and Dell’s Streak.

 

“Motorola Xoom is a truly innovative tablet – its design, coupled with being the first tablet to have Android 3.0, results in a user experience that is one-of-a-kind. We are now continuing to expand the choices available to consumers with the Motorola Xoom1Wi-Fi to be available soon from numerous leading retailers in the United States,” Motorola Mobility’s Vice President of retail sales, Dan Papalia, was quoted as saying.

 

The Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi tablet will be available at $599 (32 gigabyte).

 

The Motorola Xoom is a 10.1-inch touchscreen tablet computer, which is often touted as one of the best launches at Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The tablet runs on Android 3.0 platform developed jointly by Google, Motorola and Nvidia.

 

Besides, the tablet has two digital cameras- a 2.0-mega pixel camera in the front panel and the other with 5.0 mega pixels at the rear side. Xoom is equipped to capture 720p high-definition video.

Hopefully for the launch in India soon.

Motorola’s New Droid Bionic - Smartphone

LAS VEGAS — After all the ruckus at CES 2011 over Motorola’s Honeycomb-dedicated XOOM tablet died down, I got a chance to get my hands on the latest in the company’s Droid series of smartphones, the Bionic.

Like its Droid X predecessor, the Bionic is definitely not small. The 4.3-inch screen is one of the largest on the smartphone market right now, and if you’re wearing tight jeans and hoofing it around the Vegas strip all day like I’ve been doing, a fat-bodied Bionic in your pocket might bring on a bit of chafing.

But the screen’s aesthetic appeal makes up for any inconvenience its size may bring. Shooting pictures with the back-facing 8-megapixel camera was made easier by the extra screen area for planning and viewing shots.

Whereas Apple’s iPhones are all about the smooth-backed covers, the Bionic goes the way of rubberized grip-style case. The phone’s backside has ample tooth to it, another line of defense against clumsy phone-droppers like myself. But the gripping doesn’t make the Bionic feel bulky or weighed down. It’s a nice touch, even if it may add to the aforementioned pocket-chafing.

We weren’t allowed to pop open the hood to see the phone’s 1-GHz dual-core processor insides, but by the looks of flipping through the Android 2.2 menu screens, the Bionic’s guts seemed to be doing their job well. No visible stuttering was to be seen in the few apps I ran, and load time was minimal. It was, however, a brand new phone with its 16 GB of on-board storage still relatively empty. I’d like to see how it runs after an app-hungry tween has had her hands on it.

All in all, I dug what I saw of the Bionic. It may be a bit large for my taste, but for the crowd that’s into the big and powerful (and prefers a Motorola handset over a Samsung offering) the Bionic is surely worth a second look.