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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Google has recently released an Android OS update for the Honeycomb version, originally numbered 3.0 to the now 3.1 that's also dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich. The fellas over at liliputing.com got their over-the-air update on their Motorola Xoom test unit and have put together a video showing how it runs. The update was said to make the tablet feel faster from the improved hardware graphics acceleration, smoother system animations and improved web browser performance. Benchmark tests were also conducted which showed surprising results - some tests scored higher after the update whilst others scored lower, which liliputing are saying could be due to the actual benchmark test as opposed to the tablet. Other notable upgrades include an improved task switcher, home screen widgets and new control
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
Rumour has it that Motorola are planning on developing another Android tablet - this time it's an enterprise-orientated tablet that will run Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). This all came from a Motorola slide image that found its way online that also points out that the new tablet will sport a 7-inch capacitive multitouch screen with a resolution of 1024 x 600, is powered by a 1GHz OMAP dual-core processor, has 1GB of RAM, 8GB of NAND internal memory, Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity, HDMI out, an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 1.3-megapixel front camera. Now on to the special aspects of this new tablet: it also comes with enterprise software that includes security, software utilities, barcode decoding and more, stylus support, signature capture, USB connectivity for Motorola accessories, a rem
The Motorola Xoom, a most talked about tablet due to its powerful Tegra 2 processor and Android 3.0 Hneycomb OS was built with an SD card slot, but for some reason is unable to read SD cards. This silly problem has now been solved thanks to a group of third party developers that have released a custom software kernel - the Tiamat kernel - that enables the tablet's SD card slot. This is rather impressive as the developers have managed to release the software before Motorola have even released their official SD card patch, and it was all done without the Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb source code. If you're a lucky Xoom owner then you can enable your tablet's SD card slot from the download available at the xda-developers forum where there's also the instructions - but like always, be cautiou
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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