The Motorola Xoom was the most advanced tablet that we got to try at the Mobile World Congress. Other tablets, including the Flyer of HTC, certainly look promising, but the Xoom is the kicker for the Google Android OS Honeycomb core--the version of Android developed specifically for tablets--and the devices on display at MWC were fully functional, those used for live demonstrations.
Director of marketing, Motorola Tom Satchwell gave us an indepth tour of the device, occasionally pulling out his own Xoom to demonstrate a feature that he actively uses it.
The Xoom certainly makes a compelling case for Android Tablet PC platform. 10 .1in screen device is being launched by Motorola as a showcase for the honeycomb "multitasking operating system" and cruises along on a 2 GHz Tegra 2 chipset and 1 GB of RAM.
The 16 GB Tablet has a 16: 10 aspect ratio, but the viewable area is 16: 9--the same as Blu-ray movies. A further portion of the screen has been reserved for what Motorola terms a "persistent navigation bar". This saves the user continually stabbing a hardware button to return back, back and forth through the menu screens. If you want to use the Xoom to viewing a television program, the navigation is turned off so as not to be distracting.
Other aspects we took really to include support for 3D maps that Google has added to the honeycomb and the Motorola Media link function that "sucks DRM-free content from iTunes, for example and for the device." Motorola is not the only manufacturer to recognize the power of Apple's iTunes and reassurance necessary that consumers that they don't lose what they have invested in their music library in iTunes by choosing a Android or non-iOS Tablet PC.
However, we were the Xoom impressed, however, was the 4 G smartphone Motorola Atrix showing where mobile technology could really be the next item.
Atrix 4 G first caught our eye on the stand, where the smartphone arm with its dock had pride of place. The concept is that the smartphone is now the power and other elements on the screen, keyboard, mouse and remote speakers--are subservient to it. Atrix 4 G dominates the screen that serves its docking station, so that the display attractive ultraportable is known only in direct reference to it.
The smartphone is pushing the content of any host device and flutters like nimbly between them, to resume automatically on a device where it last left the final, including display the last page view or a web photo album. We don't just mean the screen screen. You can move easily from Atrix Xoom to another connected device without missing a beat. And is the Atrix, rather than the Tablet, which says that Motorola is key here. The device will have its accessories in the form of a speaker dock for entertainment--James Bruce of the arm is an aftermarket already announcers of responsible party speaker leaping here to build compatible docks.
If your smartphone is truly today's computers--a mantra, Nokia has been chanting for at least three years and that Motorola and others also join--it seems strange to hide it behind a screen.
As well as 4 G connectivity--with Verizon put 4 G LTE networks in major cities in the United States this year, mobile broadband is on a big jerk extra power--the Atrix has as much memory as the classmate Tablet PC. The 16 GB already on board can be further enhanced with the inclusion of a 32 GB SD Card, taking him for a mighty global 48 GB. If the Nand flash memory can be used to increase the virtual memory, as you can on Windows laptops, this could be an interesting statement.
The Motorola Atrix 4 G has 1 GB of dual-core computing power nVidia Tegra 2, touts a 4in screen, 960 x 540 pixels thick and has an overlap of MotoBlur for direct access to Facebook, email, SMS and social media. Access to the device can be controlled fingerprint recognition or use a pincode (like Xoom). At launch, says he, as soon as next week in the United States, the Motorola Atrix 4 G will run Android 2.2 Froyo.
Motorola bullish about Tom Satchwell was why anyone would need specifically the version 2.3 Android gingerbread found on Google Nexus S smartphone, rejecting the power management and NFC (near field communications) of the updated OS. However, he also added that "naturally work Gingerbread later."
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