14 DAY TRIAL // Recently, mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility announced the upcoming availability of a new series of tablet PCs, namely the Motorola XOOM 2 and XOOM 2 Media Editon, and it seems that Verizon Wireless might bring them to its DROID lineup soon.
Apparently, the wireless carrier is set to have the two devices branded as DROID Xyboard 10.1 and DROID Xyboard 8.2 when made available for purchase on its airwaves, a recent article on Pocketnow reads.
According to the news site, the mobile phone carrier applied for trademark protection on the Xyboard name as of last month.
For the time being, no official confirmation on this has emerged, but it seems that more and more evidence that things are moving in this direction has emerged.
Both of the two tablet PCs run under Google's Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating system and both of them pack 1.2GHz dual-core application processors inside.
Motorola has already announced these devices for the market in the UK and Ireland, but they are expected to arrive in other markets around the world as well in the near future.
And since the original XOOM was launched in the United States on the airwaves of Verizon, it would be logical to expect for this wireless carrier to have the new tablet PC versions as well.
Apparently, the original XOOM was initially slated for launch as the DROID XOOM, but it lost the DROID part from its name for unknown reasons.
When released at Verizon, the new XOOM tablet PCs are expected to feature support for the wireless carrier's LTE network, the same as it happened with the original device.
While announced with the Honeycomb 3.2 OS on board, the two devices might arrive on shelves in the United States with the new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS on board, since the OS was already released and Google is nearing the takeover of Motorola.