Verizon Wireless and Motorola Mobility, Inc., today announced a new tablet, the Motorola XOOM which runs Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system.
The rest of Verizon Wireless’ and Motorola Mobility’s press release, verbatim:
The Honeycomb user experience improves on Android favorites such as widgets, multi-tasking, browsing, notifications and customization and features the latest Google Mobile innovations. Boasting a dual core processor with each core running at 1 GHz, delivering up to two GHz of processing power, and 10.1-inch widescreen HD display, Motorola XOOM gives Verizon Wireless customers a new type of mobile computing experience on a stylishly thin device that is 4G LTE upgradeable.
Motorola XOOM redefines the tablet device category by providing more ways to have fun, connect with friends and stay productive on the go. It allows consumers to experience HD content right on the device, supports 1080p HD video and HDMI output to display content on larger HD screens, and plays video and other rich web content seamlessly with Adobe Flash Player. Motorola XOOM features a front-facing 2-megapixel camera for video chats over Wi-Fi or 3G/4G LTE, as well as a rear-facing 5-megapixel camera that captures video in 720p HD. It delivers console-like gaming performance on its 1280×800 display, and features a built-in gyroscope, barometer, e-compass, accelerometer and adaptive lighting for new types of applications. It also features Google Maps 5.0 with 3D interaction and delivers access to over 3 million Google eBooks and thousands of apps from Android Market.
MacDailyNews Take: What, no periscope?! WTF good is a barometer without a periscope?! 
But, seriously, after Apple unveils the next iPad, the poor XOOM’s barometer is going to implode.
For working on the go, Motorola XOOM provides constant connectivity − including connecting to Gmail or Exchange email; opening and editing documents, spreadsheets and presentations; and viewing calendars and sending out appointments or meeting notices – with mobile broadband speeds. Its mobile hotspot capability provides an online connection for up to five other Wi-Fi-enabled devices.
“Motorola XOOM is a powerful addition to Verizon’s product lineup and builds on our combined leadership with Motorola to deliver innovative mobile devices and service on the Android platform,” said Marni Walden, vice president and chief marketing officer for Verizon Wireless, in the press release. “Motorola XOOM gives consumers complete access and control of their favorite personal content and work files whether through our nationwide 3G network, or through our lightning-fast 4G LTE network as it rolls out around the country.”
“Light, powerful and fundamentally different than anything else on the market, Motorola XOOM leverages the very best technology available today to redefine what a tablet experience can be,” said Bill Ogle, chief marketing officer of Motorola Mobility, in the press release. “The first device to feature software designed specifically for tablets, Motorola XOOM goes everywhere you do and delivers everything you need.”
The Motorola XOOM device will launch as a 3G/Wi-Fi-enabled device in Q1 2011 with an upgrade to 4G LTE in Q2. Starting in Q2 2011 the Motorola XOOM will be a 4G LTE/Wi-Fi- enabled device.
Sources: Verizon Wireless, Motorola Mobility, Inc.
Motorola XOOM Tablet specs:
• Android 3.0 Honeycomb
• 1080p HD support
• 249.1mm (h) x 167.8mm (w) x 12.9mm (d)
• 10.1” 1280×800 resolution
• 730 g
• NVIDIA Tegra 2: 1GHz dual-core processor
• Battery: Up to 10 hour video playback
• Connectivity: 3.5mm, micro USB 2.0 HS, Corporate Sync, Wi-Fi 2.4GHz & 5GHz 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR + HID
• Network: 3G, 4G LTE upgradeable, 802.11n w/Personal Hotspot
• Messaging/Web/Apps: Email (Corporate Sync, Google Mail, POP3/IMAP embedded, Push Email, Yahoo Mail) , WebKit w/ Flash
• Audio: AAC, AAC+, AMR NB, AMR WB, MP3, XMF
• Video: 720p capture/1080p playback/streaming, H.263, H.264, MPEG4
• Camera: 5 MP rear-facing camera with dual LED flash/2MP front-facing camera
• Memory: 32GB on board user memory, SD card support after software update, 1GB DDR2 RAM
MacDailyNews Take: And the price is… not disclosed. Telling. To be totally dependent on Google, that was Motorola’s choice (really, they had no other choice except to die); now it is their fate.
And subjecting your users to devices that kill batteries by choking and crashing on Adobe’s Flash is not a selling point.
“Boasting a dual core processor with each core running at 1 GHz, delivering up to two GHz of processing power, “
Following that logic my MacBook Pro actually has 4.8GHz! WOW!
Moto is so desperate…
Great name – like how on earth do you pronounce it?
But it has a barometer!
I believe it’s pronounced “ecks-oom”.
As in “we’ll need a court order to exhume the already dead Android Honyecomb OS.”
… And I have a 10+ GHz Mac Pro!!!
How can it play back 1080p if the resolution is 1280 x 800? Who cares what it can output to a TV when you’re sitting on a train?
“…fundamentally different than anything else on the market”
Riiight, let’s close our eyes and pretend the iPad doesn’t exist.
“Memory: 32GB on board user memory, SD card support after software update, 1GB DDR2 RAM”
After software update? Honeycomb is still beta I take it.
Hate on Steve Job bottom lickers this looks amazing especially with it 1 GB DDR2 Ram. Lets hope Android 3.0 functions as well as the videos show it does.
Why is it that a company like Motorola can’t develop an operating system for their own hardware? They do it for their own phones. I used to think Motorola was an impressive company. My how the times have changed.
I thought a Xoom was a modem? Or wasn’t Xoom.com one of those freetard hosting sites bought by NBC at the height of the dot com boom?
Add this tablet in and you’ve got a trifecta of defunct.
@Beowulf, it says up to 10 hours of video playback learn how to read.
To tell you the truth, there is no “tablet” category. There’s just iPad that is. I don’t think the market could take more than 10% ipad-like device in the market.
When’s this thing shipping? Probably not for months!
Love how they can outright lie in their press released “The first device to feature software designed specifically for tablets” — as if iPad hasn’t existed since last April????
Yawn.
Moto lost me back when they made Mac clones and bought PCs for their whole company instead of using the computers they made!
I’m tempted to change my name to “xoomtang.”
I think it’s pronounced “Zume”
What is the battery life if you actually do things on it? It can be optimized to play videos well but regular use will probably kill the battery.
@ninetimesoutoften: It’s about having a feature you can brag the iPad doesn’t.
All I know is that I can only load a small number of LOW-RES videos (mostly Disney stuff for my kid, who is now watching Winnie the Pooh for the billionth time today) on my iPad. So a Blu-Ray quality movie is what, 25 gb? “Ooh let me waste a bunch of time ripping one of those, copying it onto my tablet, and then hooking up my tablet to my TV. What, my wife wanted the action film and not the romantic comedy? Crap I gotta waste another huge chunk of time ripping and loading.”
Really, how is that in any way useful? The person with any sense will just use a Blu-Ray player, have a computer/AppleTV hooked up that can handle the massive, or god forbid have old tech like a DVD or, gasp, VCP handy.
But can it store and display all the documents relating to the multiple lawsuits that have been filed regarding the Android OS?
@Peter Pan “Hate on Steve Job bottom lickers this looks amazing”
Wow, “*Coming” and yes it’s *spelled correctly, From a fantasy named flying fairy i would think as much.
Hey Peter, After your done with all your fantasies, I have some Boots for you to lick since you are so geared in the mindset of the death of Apple.
Amazing will be it this device can get 12 hours of battery life on a single charge and last all day while being used.
It Won’t, Reports are it can only do 2 &1/2 hrs. at best and 4 when flash is shut off, so who will have the last laugh, Maybe you can Sprinkle some of your fairy dust and wish real hard for a iPad Killer….. Wish Real… REAL … REAL… HARD…
Dream on Fairy boy Dream On.
Holy Scheiße! My Mac Pro has a 24 GHz processor. Zowie.
Oh And battery life all day was not just for Video, They Claim 10 Hours, but Internet Usage is 2 &1/2 with Flash on. Flash Off was 4 hours constant internet Usage.
Video Usage was Better due to optimization built into chip design, but they fail to give real wold details.
I guess we will only see the real World Results until the physical device gets into some real folks hands for some real true testing.
Dammit, where’s the serial port and floppy drive? How am I supposed to hack this thing to run OS/2?
@ scot where did you read it can only last at best 4 hours? Tell me something how does Steve Job’s butt taste. I don’t hate Apple I have an Ipad and nothing comes close to touching my first Ipod as an MP3 player but I can clearly see that this product is better and is what the 1st Ipad should of been.
“Xoom” rhymes with “Zune”… just sayin’
Or maybe you call it the “exhume.”
It’s so DOA you actually have to dig out of the ground to use it.