Motorola's Great Rival IPad "Xoom" Comes Too Late

The Xoom from Motorola is the first real rival iPad and appears now in the U.S.. Maybe too late, Apple has already introduced the iPad second. The now published in the U.S. Xoom Tablet computers from Motorola, which many consider the first real competitor to the Apple iPad. In a test showed that the device can actually compete in many areas with the flat iconic gadget. Only Apple has already been announced the iPad 2, which will come on Friday in the U.S. in the trade. The Xoom it should therefore have a hard time.

The Xoom is well equipped, has a large, high resolution touch screen and features a dual-core processor and a gigabyte (GB) of memory. The disk space is 32 GB. It is the first tablet on the market with Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) by Google operating system. This offers some significant improvements over previous versions of Android, which were designed for smartphones, but also found on some other tablets are.

Android 3.0 has been designed directly for the larger tablet machines. At the bottom of the screen to find a "home" - and a "Back" button. There is information about battery status, a new e-mails and the quality of the radio network. The touch-screen keyboard has brightened. It is now much easier to e-mails or text to write. Via Bluetooth or USB keyboards can be connected right.

A hook, the otherwise stylish Xoom but - at a price. Without a mobile phone contract it costs $ 800 - or 70 dollars more than a comparable iPad. It costs $ 600 with a two-year contract.

Aside from price, to include the Xooom and iPad quite similar. The screen of Xoom is slightly larger than the iPad, the new iPad is it thinner. Both units have only a few real buttons. The Xoom has a volume knob off on one side, a button for one-and sits a bit unhappy on the back.

It's great that there is now a new Web browser, can be used to open multiple tabs. Surfing the Internet becomes much easier. The Xoom has a 5 megapixel camera on the back and a 2-megapixel camera at the front, also with the possibility of video conferences via Google Talk. Battery life is given ten hours of video and nine hours of surfing the web. In the test, it was enough only for six hours - that's not bad, but could be better.

Nevertheless, the Xoom a strong tablet computer and the first real challenger for the iPad. Those who want a tablet PC, but no iPad, and can live with the price for which the Xoom a good choice. And suddenly he is back. The Internet community is pleased and the share price rises: The diseased Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a point to take, iPad introduce second