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After weeks of anticipation, Motorola finally took the wraps off its red-hot, 10.1-inch Android 3.0 tablet, and it's a beaut—what we saw of it, anyway. Meanwhile, T-Mobile announced its own upcoming "Honeycomb" tablet, the G-Slate from LG.
Motorola execs wouldn't let those of us at its packed CES press conference Wednesday handle its new slate, dubbed Xoom, because Google is still putting the finishing touches on Honeycomb, the first tablet-oriented version of the Android OS.
Indeed, the Xoom looks to be the first tablet to run Honeycomb (a.k.a. Android 3.0), which boasts a series of enhancements (like a pumped-up Google Maps app, improved home-screen widgets, a two-column e-mail view, and a snazzy full-screen version of Google Books) that take advantage of a larger, slate-style display.
But don't worry, we'll be getting quality time with the Xoom soon enough.
Armed with a dual-core processor (1 GHz per core), dual cameras, and a 10.1-inch 1280 by 800 display, the 3G-enabled version of the Xoom will land in Verizon Wireless' lineup in the first quarter—followed by a 4G LTE version in the second quarter of the year, with Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha pledging that the older 3G Xooms will be upgradable to 4G once the LTE versions arrive.
