Bad news for those of you who were looking forward to the release of the Motorola Xoom, the world’s first Honeycomb-based tablet. It seems that the tablet will not ship with Adobe Flash at launch, and that you’ll have to wait to sometime this spring to see proper Flash support. That’s a shame. → Read More
You already know about the Xoom, Motorola’s big foray into the Android tablet world, but I thought I’d get some shots of the guy while I was over in Motorola’s booth here at Mobile World Congress. The device, as we’ve noticed, has a pleasant chunkiness to it but isn’t over-large. Its screen is nice, the OS is responsive, and the specs are competitive with what’s… → Read More
When we first saw of the Motorola Xoom at CES, we thought and said good things. How could you go wrong with a dual-core full Honeycomb tablet? Then we heard rumors that Motorola wanted to sell a lot, so that got us thinking that the price would be competitive. Then we started seeing rumors of an $800 price tag, and that made us sad. And now it has been all but confirmed that it will cost $800 when… → Read More
The Motorola Xoom has made the rounds to various events, but Moto has yet to reveal the price or release date. But a Grand Rapids, Michigan Best Buy might have just ruined the surprise party. According to a post on their Facebook page, the tablet will hit their store on the 2/24. Now this doesn’t specifically mean that the Xoom’s official release date is the same as Verizon stores… → Read More
Don’t tell our Aol overlords things, but it doesn’t matter what tablet we like the best. What matters is you find a tablet that works for you. This infograph from Skattertech should help. Click through for the massive graph. → Read More
Confirming some speculation and defying some other speculation, Motorola announced today during its earnings call that its Xoom tablet is still on track for a late-February release, despite rumors that Honeycomb is only half-baked. I think we all know Honeycomb is going to be a bit of a rough launch; I’m waiting for 3.1. → Read More
Motorola’s MOTOBLUR ALL CAPS USER INTERFACE LAYER will be coming to the Xoom, it seems, though early indications are that the tablet will ship with vanilla Honeycomb on it. Wow, that sounds sticky. → Read More
Motorola’s Android 3 tablet, the Xoom, will be shipping sometime later this year, and Motorola has high hopes for it. It has ordered as many as 800,000 units from its suppliers in Taiwan, and may even raise its expectations to a million sold in the first quarter of 2011. → Read More
International payments processor Xoom has raised $20.29 million Series E in a round led by DAG Ventures and joined by previous investors Fidelity Ventures, New Enterprise Associates and Sequoia Capital. Xoom’s international payments platform allows users to transfer money to overseas accounts; think Western Union without the excessive fees, and you can use funds in your PayPal account for… → Read More
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