Like so many tablets that have hit retail shelves this year, the Motorola XOOM launched in a slightly unfinished state. Updates have been rolling out, of course. Back in July a software update allowed owners of the Motorola XOOM to finally make use of the tablet’s microSD card expansion slot. Around the same time, a key […]
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Motorola XOOM review
The Motorola XOOM checked a lot of boxes in the “first” category when it launched in February. It was the first tablet computer to ship with a 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor. It was the first tablet to run Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb and the first to be updated to Android 3.1. […]
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WiMAX Motorola XOOM tablet heading to Sprint?
The Motorola XOOM tablet is currently available in two versions: A 3G model that’s sold by Verizon and which will soon get a 4G LTE mobile broadband upgrade, and a WiFi-only model. Now the folks at BGR have received a tip suggesting that a third option may be available soon. Sprint is expected to sell […]
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Motorola XOOM system dump hits the web
The Motorola XOOM is the first tablet to ship with Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb. And while the Honeycomb software developer kit has been available for about a month, leading to some pretty interesting independent efforts to get Honeycomb up and running on officially unsupported hardware, the SDK images can be a little sluggish and not […]
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WiFi-only Motorola XOOM to run about $600
There’s good news and less good news on the Motorola XOOM tablet front. The good news is that despite early reports suggesting that the tablet would run $799, Reuters is reporting that a WiFi-only version of the tablet will be available for about $600. The less good news is that the $799price tag is real. […]
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Closer look at the Motorola Xoom tablet with Android 3.0 Honeycomb
Motorola has started showing off its upcoming Xoom tablet which will be available from Verizon during the first quarter of 2011. The software is still a bit rough around the edges, so a friendly Motorola rep spent more time showing me demo videos than the actual user interface for the tablet, but that’s to be […]