Friday, January 07, 2011

Thursday: Tablets

Didn't pay a whole lot of attention to these since I love my Samsung Galaxy Tab. I picked up a "no-name" tablet (Exo PC brand) and it was very heavy. Weight is the kiss of death in a portable device.

Motorola Xoom: is this the only 4G tablet at the show? iPad competitor, sleek and thin and all black. 10" 1280x800 16:9 screen, 720p video, HDMI out, dual core ("mfr not disclosed"), battery size and life not disclosed, browsing with tabs and incognito mode. 3g + wifi; will not have a Wifi version (heard many Q's about this. Are that many people interested in a Wifi only version? For a device that might rarely leave home, that makes sense). "Upgradeable" to 4G (well, hspa+ not true 4G) but would not disclose whether this was sw or HW change. I think it's SW change because HSPA+ uses same freq as HSDPA. Weight=iPad. In summary, it's wow because its first to market. Article on the Xoom.

By the way, its camera is at the top of Landscape mode (along the long edge), this is the first tablet I've seen that places the front-facing camera here.
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