14 DAY TRIAL // Striving to put up a fight against all the other Android tablets currently on the market, the WiFi-enabled version of Motorola's Xoom has reportedly made it into the stores of Australia.
As far as media tablets go, the Motorola Xoom is one that started off on, one might say, the wrong foot, with fairly low sales levels, especially during the first weeks after its initial launch.
This was, mostly, caused by the fact that the price was quite high at first (could reach about $800) and, in fact, could still be seen as such, despite some cuts.
Nevertheless, Motorola persevered and kept expanding the availability of this product as it no doubt identified those things that should be changed, in the eventuality of a new model arriving sometime in the future.
That said, a recent report has revealed that the slate equipped with WiFi wireless connectivity has joined the Xoom 3G as selling electronic on the Australian market.
The latter has been selling there for a while now and the newcomer will demand $690 from those consumers that decide they want one for themselves.
That said, the mobile device has a display size of 10.1 inches, the screen being an LCD with HD support (1,366 x 768 pixels resolution).
The Tegra 2 ARM-based dual-core platform of 1 GHz is used (developed by NVIDIA and also found in many rival slates), as is 1 GB of RAM (random access memory) and two webcams.
One of said webcams, the 5 megapixels one, is set on the back and is intended for shooting videos (720p) and photos, while the front 2 megapixel one works for video chats.
All the hardware is managed by the Android 3.1 operating system, this being the latest Honeycomb version that Google has to offer. Finally, Motorola threw in a built-in accelerometer, e-compass and a gyroscope.