Motorola recently provided 6,200 “Xoom” Android tablets to daily deals site W00t.com and of those 6,200 tablets, about 100 of …
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NFL Teams Turn to iPad Playbooks
Are you ready for some multi-touch gestures used mainly in preparation for some football? The NFL is. It appears the iPad is taking the place of musty old playbooks in several locker rooms across the country. According to the New York Times, the Baltimore Ravens bought 120 of them during the off-season, which in retrospect seems to be a …
Motorola Xoom’s “Flop” is No Surprise
Well, of course Motorola has only sold 100,000 Xoom tablets so far.
That’s not a precise number, but it’s the amount of people using Android 3.0 Honeycomb, according to Deutsche Bank’s check of the Android developer website. Motorola’s Xoom is the only Android 3.0 Honeycomb on the market right now, so it’s fair to say that sales are …
Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi is $599, Unofficially Up for Pre-Order
Electronics retailer B&H has jumped the gun and started taking pre-orders on a Wi-Fi-only Motorola Xoom tablet for $599, even though Motorola hasn’t confirmed the pricing itself.
B&H’s Xoom product page doesn’t say when the Wi-Fi version will ship, but says it’s “a new item being released in limited quantity, We are accepting orders …
Motorola Xoom Gets Closer to Completion with Flash
One of the Motorola Xoom’s missing pieces will fall into place with the arrival of Adobe Flash on March 18.
Adobe made the news official on its blog. Flash 10.2 will arrive alongside Android 3.0.1, an over-the-air software update that’s rolling out to Xoom tablets now. Adobe’s considering this a beta release for tablets, but the final …
Android’s Hidden Music Backup Feature Harmonizes with Google
Well, well, well. Looks like we have some more fuel for the ages-old Google Music rumors. An enterprising developer shoehorned the new Motorola Xoom Android tablet’s music application onto his plain old Android smartphone and went he went into the phone’s settings menu, he was surprised to find a feature labeled “Sync Music” sandwiched …
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The Details on the Xoom’s LTE Upgrade
The most interesting thing about Motorola’s new Xoom tablet–which I reviewed for this week’s TIME.com Technologizer column and is available from Verizon dealers starting today–is that it’s the first tablet that runs Google’s new Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system. The second most interesting is the support for Verizon’s speedy LTE …
Motorola Xoom Reviews Are In: King of Tablets or Just Android Tablets?
With Apple’s new iPad set to be unveiled next Wednesday, Motorola has just slid headfirst into the marketplace with its own 10-inch tablet.
The Android-based Motorola Xoom runs for $800 (or $600 with a two-year Verizon data contract), features two cameras, a dual-core processor, and 32 gigabytes of storage. From a purely technical …
Motorola ‘Xoom’ Tablet to Start at $600, Verizon Version at $800
Okay, now we’re moving in the right direction.
It appears that the rumored $800 price tag for the 10-inch Motorola Xoom Android tablet has been confirmed by the company’s CEO.
However, Reuters reports that Motorola will also be selling a Wi-Fi-only version of the Xoom that’ll be priced at around $600. Official availability dates …
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It’s Not Going to Be Easy to Make Interesting Tablets
My new TIME.com Technologizer column–now a Thursday feature at the site rather than a Tuesday one–is a recap of the state of the tablet wars as of last week’s International Consumer Electronics Show. There were dozens of upcoming models at the show–new Android models, RIM’s still-a-work-in-progress BlackBerry PlayBook, dark horses …