14 DAY TRIAL // Motorola's tablet has gone through some price changes recently and, now, it appears that its maker is trying to extend its prospective customer base by offering a new and improved version of the operating system.
Much like mobile phones, media tablets have to make sure that their operating systems and content availability is up to date.
In fact, considering that those who buy a slate aren't that keep on getting another, newer one as often as they might decide to change their phones, this is doubly important.
Motorola, being one of the companies with a tablet on sale, is revealed to have decided on bringing the XOOM tablet from Android 3.1 to Android 3.2.
This move comes soon after the company not only dropped the price of the product, but even began to give keyboards and mice specifically tailored for it for free.
Originally selling for a bit more than most buyers were eager to part with, the XOOM is now priced at $499, the same as most others out there.
That said, Motorola is already delivering the Android 3.2 update to its customers, providing the Zoom to fill screen function and, most importantly, support for SD cards, among other things.
For those that want to know the other facts about the XOOM, it is based on the NVIDIA Tegra 2 SoC (system-on-chip) ARM platform.
1 GB of RAM (random access memory) is present and the 10.1-inch display has a native resolution of 1,280 x 800 pixels.
Furthermore, two webcams have been implemented, one on the back (5 megapixels) and one on the front (2 megapixels).
The Android 3.2 OS is described as the last version of the Honeycomb and will be the main choice of not just 10.1-inch, but also 7-inch slates up until the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is released, later this year (2011).