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There has been rumours about the Motorola Xoom 2 tablet, but non that have had any concrete evidence... until now! With these two leaked (and blurry) images of the Motorola Xoom 2, we now know it exists. With that said, it might not even be the Motorola Xoom 2! What we mean is that it this tablet might not be coming with the name that's synonymous with a bark louder than its bite - the 'Xoom' - reflected by the original Motorola Xoom's poor sale figure, so we'll stick with its model number for now: MZ617. More after the break.
According to inside sources, the new Motorola tab will come with an HDMI and USB port, and will have the same weight as the original Motorola Xoom. The photo showing the rear side of the tablet also reveals a camera with an HD sign next to it. Other physical
The Motorola Xoom - a talked about tablet in it's heyday, which happened to be before the thing was actually released! There is now news that the major company is working on a new 10-inch tablet with an aspect ratio of 4:3 and will run Android Ice Cream Sandwich as its OS. Another promising spec of the new tab is its whopping 2048 x 1536 resolution. Very promising indeed (although this road of expectations looks familiar). Look wise, it very much resembles the Motorola Xoom, although it has yet to be branded as one, or any other name yet. We do know that the device is rumoured to be currently in its final testing stages, so hopefully we'll be finding out about that soon, along with its hardware, although we'll throw in the assumption of a NVIDIA processor for good measure (possibly Tegra
The Motorola Xoom has just reached new grounds, but before you get misconstrued, it's not all that. The Motorola Xoom has been overclocked before to 1.5GHz, and even to 1.6 last month,and now it has been stretched to 1.7GHz. The figure may be impressive, but actually all this overclocking does is create a somewhat unstable environment within the tablet. This shortcoming from the intention to impress isn't new to the Xoom - a tablet once famous for being the first in the industry to run Android 3.0 Honeycomb and then have its sales figures drop like a hat. Either way, if your brave enough to void your warranty and want to push your Motorola Xoom to the limits then by all means. However, apparently not all units are able to be overclocked to 1.7GHz. Another disappointment.
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The Motorola Xoom - the first tablet to introduce Android 3.0 Honeycomb to the market - has now received an Android update to version 3.1 that was announced at the Google I/O Keynote yesterday. The version is still Honeycomb, but brings to it a number of enhancements such as Google's new movie rental service that will be available on the Marketplace. The service provides thousands of movies that can be rented from the Marketplace and can be either streamed or downloaded, and can then be viewed either on the tab or on another computer. Other enhancements include being able to use the USB port for practically any USB device, input support for a mouse, keyboard and gamepad, re-sizable home screen widgets and Google Music Beta. The update was released yesterday and there are already reports
That's right, thanks to xda-developer's forum member, sangreal06, the Motorola Xoom - a tablet that was flagged as the first Android Honeycomb tablet to hit the market - has now been turned into an over-sized mobile phone. The tablet has impressive hardware and software specs, but people are now realising that what you could do on the Xoom can in fact also be done on a much smaller Android smartphone - so why not turn the big ol' thing into a phone! Well, a phone of sorts - the hacked Xoom's phone capabilities come via Google Voice, however since the mic and speakers don't work, you can only send messages as well as initiate phone calls (so ultimately prank calls as you won't be able to say a thing). This hack also changes the user's agent in the web browser to automatically show the des
Cory over at Android Community has overclocked his Xoom to 1.5GHz and posted some Quadrant benchmarking results - 3231! - very impressive, indeed, putting the 2772 score posted by the 1.8GHz (Snapdragon) HTC Thunderbolt we saw recently to shame. It just shows you what the NVIDIA Tegra 2 is capable of. At stock 1GHz speeds, the Xoom is already breaking the 2000 point score barrier. Cory also provides a guide on how to make your own Xoom zoom (apologies, couldn't resist), but only overclock at your own risk, as usual. Quadrant result after the break.
Read the full Xoom overclocking guide, and see some Linpack results!
Word about town speaks of another Motorola Xoom tablet, or rather another Moto slate to be released by the major company. Motorola US have also started reducing orders for the Motorola Xoom with no orders scheduled past June - a drastic drop from the Xoom's pre-release hype. Whether or not the decrease in Xoom sales were due to rival iPad 2, expected reductions of the units are said to be down to 300,000 by April and sub 300,000 come May. However, with a possible new Motorola slate in the mix, the Xoom's figures may not change, but at least Motorola will still have a chance to keep their foot in the tablet door. Although with the ever-increasing competition out there, the new tablet best be a stellar one!
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The Motorola Xoom has now been hacked by the SlateDroid community to allow you to plug in a USB drive, and other such peripherals. All you'll need to be able do this is an OTG cable and Android software developers tools. You'll also most likely need the courage to fool around with the device you've spent USD$800 on. Once everything is checked off the list, you should have yourself a Motorola Xoom that can have peripherals plugged in to expand on the tablets 32GB of built-in storage. Definitely a bonus seeing as the Xoom has no MicroSD card slot.
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The Motorola Xoom, the tablet that has been paraded as top contender against the iPad 2 has just been beat in a benchmark comparison between the two. Figures show from a GLBenchmark test that the iPad 2 is able to render 57.2 frames per second. The Motorola Xoom was able to render 26.7 frames per second - substantially lower than the Apple tab. A blow for the Xoom, however it is up against a titan. Although this titan is having its fair share of exposed pros and cons that have come into light from the relentless stripping of flesh. All in order to bear the tablet's full specs ever since its release. And with that, we've come to learn that the iPad 2's heart is in fact a 894MHz ARM Cortex CPU with apparent Samsung markings - not quite the 1GHz that people had hoped for. It also has 512MB
Motorola will now happily (we're assuming) upgrade your Motorola Xoom with 4G LTE connectivity, despite whether or not it has already been rooted. The upgrade will require you to send your device back to the maker, however if you've already customised your Xoom be it internally or with fancy stickers and a paint-job, it won't make a difference to them at all. The other requirement Motorola asks for is that you set your Xoom's firmware to its original state before sending it in. Software failures can occur with upgrades however, so that's something to keep in mind if you've heavily tweaked your Xoom.
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