The new Amazon Kindle Fire tablets aren’t the only decent tablets available for under $200 these days. It’s been a while since the original Motorola XOOM was a top-of-the-line device, but if you’re willing to pick up a tablet released in February 2011, you can get a refurbished model for $190 today. That’s not a bad price for a tablet…
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The 10.1-inch Motorola Xoom, the first Honeycomb tablet, is now the second tablet to get the official Jelly Bean release. However, owners who want to keep their tablet hackable generally hold off on official updates in case they break rooting or lock up the bootloader. Luckily for those users there’s now a way to get your Jelly Bean goodness. A…
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The Motorola XOOM isn’t officially a Google Nexus device, but it’s the next best thing. It was the first tablet to launch with Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb last year, and it’s been one of the first devices to receive virtually every major Android update since then. Now Google is getting ready to roll out Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to the…
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Motorola is apparently working on a new tablet. A device called the Motorola HC100 showed up at the FCC website today, and it’s described as a “Touch Tablet with WiFi.” And really… that’s about all we know about it for now. The label sample drawing seems to suggest that the tablet probably has a 9 or 10 inch display, but that’s only…
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Google has introduced Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the next version of the company’s mobile operating system. It features improved search, voice search, text input, and camera features and the software development kit will be available today. Starting in mid-July Google will release the source code for Android 4.1, and the company will also release over-the-air updates for the latest flagship…
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It’s not unusual to find refurbished Motorola XOOM tablets going for a fraction of their original list price. But today 1SaleADay is offering a 32GB Motorola XOOM WiFi tablet for $330, which is a pretty good deal for the first tablet to run Android 3.0 Honeycomb and one of the first to get an official Android 4.0 software update. Here…
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The Motorola XOOM was the first Android tablet approved by Google when it launched a little over a year ago. At the time you couldn’t find one for less than $499, but today you can snag a Verizion 4G capable model with 32GB of storage for just $290 if you don’t mind buying refurbished. The best deal of the day…
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You know those 10.5 million Android tablets that shipped in 2011? It looks like about a million of them came from Motorola. The smartphone and tablet maker reported its quarterly earnings this afternoon, and Motorola says it shipped a million tablets in 2011, including about 200 thousand tablets during the last quarter of the year. Motorola was the first company…
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Motorola has started rolling out an Android 4.0 software update for the XOOM WiFi tablet. The XOOM was the first tablet to ship with Android 3.0 Honeycomb when Motorola released the device last year. Now it’s the second existing tablet to receive an over-the-air Android 4.0 update. The first is actually the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime. Asus started pushing…
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A small group of Motorola XOOM owners that have signed up to be part of a test group are already receiving a Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for their tablets. According to Android Police and Talk Android, Motorola started rolling out the update at 9:00 PM Pacific time on January 12th, and will continue pushing the software to…
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Google released Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich this week, and independent developers started kicking the tires right away. It turns out that the software is already pretty much compatible with the Motorola XOOM tablet, and xda-developers forum member razorbladex401 has released a custom ROM for the tablet based on the latest version of Android. The Motorola XOOM was the first…
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Sure, the Motorola XOOM 2 is just around the corner, but if you’re looking for a good deal on a first generation Android tablet from Motorola, Woot is offering the original XOOM for $330 today. It’s a refurbished model, but it has all the goodies you’d expect including Android 3.1 Honeycomb, a 1280 x 800 pixel display, a 1 GHz…
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The Motorola XOOM WiFi tablet may have cost $599 when it first launched, but in recent months the price has dropped to $499. If that’s not good enough for you, it seems like every other day someone has the 10 inch Honeycomb tablet on sale — and today you can snag one for $350. Here’s a roundup of some of…
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Motorola’s sequel to the XOOM tablet appears to be on track for a pre-holiday launch, and it looks like the tablet will sell for about €400 in the UK. Engadget has posted a photo of a print ad for Carphone Warehouse featuring the new tablet. The ad doesn’t offer detailed specifications, but it does confirm that the tablet will feature an…
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Motorola has released its latest earnings data, and in the third quarter of 2011 the company shipped about 11.6 million mobile devices. That includes 4.8 million smartphones, but just 100,000 Motorola XOOM tablets. That number seems a bit low… but it’s really for Motorola to decide whether the XOOM is a success or failure. The company reportedly sold 440,000 tablets…
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