Motorola Xoom Review: The First Honeycomb Tablet Arrives
by Anand Lal Shimpi on February 23, 2011 11:57 PM ESTBattery Life
Motorola specs the Xoom at up to 10 hours of battery life, very similar to what Apple suggests the iPad can manage. Motorola sampled reviewers with the Xoom just two days ago and thus I haven’t had a tremendous amount of time to run through our entire suite of battery life tests, what I do have for you are two numbers that generally support Motorola’s rating.
The first is the Xoom running through the same 3G web browsing test we put all of our smartphones through:
At 9.5 hours, the Xoom will easily last you throughout a workday even if you’re browsing the web the entire time and not actually doing work.
The second test is actually a test I put together for our original iPad review. Take our web browsing battery life test, add music playback and email downloading in the background and you’ve got a heavier workload on WiFi:
The number is almost identical - about 9.5 hours for the Xoom on WiFi with some additional tasks running in the background. I’m going to be running some more battery life tests on the Xoom but based on these results I’d say despite the performance advantage, you don’t sacrifice any battery life vs the iPad.
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GotThumbs - Friday, March 18, 2011 - link
Hold out a little longer...599 WIFI only coming March 27th. Hope you didn't buy the Archos yet. Early adopters always pay more $$$. If you just wait a little while...the prices always adjust after buying slows down at higher price. Thats just the economics of it. Apple is able to sell at higher prices, so why would they lower them.GotThumbs - Friday, March 18, 2011 - link
Coming out Mrch 27th. Hold on a little longer for a better tablet. My boss offered to buy me the new IPAD2 the other day. I told him 'no thanks, its either an ADAM or a Xoom or nothing" The ADAM is still developing their production and having growing pains.....the product is excellent and will be a great addition to the tablet market when it arrives in stores...for now...its Xoom. Now with the WIFI version coming out...it will boost sales for those consumers who did not want the 3g option and high cost.Android_Blogger - Monday, March 21, 2011 - link
Apparantly, the 3G version costs 600 GBP in the UK at least. Source: <a href="http://www.motorola-xoom.co.uk/">UK Xoom Tablet blog</a>Android_Blogger - Monday, March 21, 2011 - link
Source:www.motorola-xoom.co.ukspambonk - Sunday, April 10, 2011 - link
What I don't get are the specs on Amazon which says this device also has a 2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile inside??? What, it has both a tegra and a intel core 2??? What is this madness.fentleson - Friday, April 15, 2011 - link
Better screens. Resolution isnt as important as screen quality.vtx1300 - Friday, April 15, 2011 - link
HD front and rear cameras - USB2/3, GigE and E-SATA connections and a Free (commercial sponsored?) Data PlanDixon Butz - Sunday, April 17, 2011 - link
I want to see a slide out keyboard. Or a mini removable keyboard.911dude - Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - link
I'm wondering about the effect that the pending ATT buyout of T-Mobile will have on the future of Xoom.ANDROCELES - Friday, April 22, 2011 - link
I HOPE 2 TRY ONE