It's heeeere: Finally, we get confirmation of the first Android tablet running the Honeycomb operating system. The Motorola Xoom tablet will be coming in the first quarter of 2011 to Verizon. No pricing has been announced, but
Motorola dropped enough hints to get our juices going. The company announced its tablet just minutes before T-Mobile dropped news of its own first Honeycomb tablet, made by LG Electronics. For starters, the unit, like many being introduced this week, runs Nvidia's Tegra 2 platform, with a dual-core 1GHz processor. The Xoom will have a 10.1-inch 1280 by 800 resolution, 1GB of RAM, and 32GB of on-board user memory (plus an SD card slot). And of course, it will have Honeycomb, now officially outed as Android 3.0; and from what we saw in the on-screen demos and canned film, Honeycomb will be indeed be a very different Android experience than what's on smartphones today. Honeycomb has been optimized for tablets, and the iPad and Galaxy Tab-like split-screen views, the optimized Google Maps 5.0 with 3D mapping app, and other interface design points appear to bear this out.
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