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The motorola xoom tablet. the first tablet powered by android 3.0, with a 3-d interface and a widescreen hd display. grab it and it grabs you. only at verizon.
The motorola xoom tablet. the first tablet powered by android 3.0, with a 3-d interface and a widescreen hd display. grab it and it grabs you. only at verizon.
There's a new tablet available to rival the first ipad. our technology analyst, syndicated writer, marc saltzman is here with us. so we're talking about ipad, competing with itself with a new one. and yet, there's another? >> that's right. we're talk about the ipad ii in a moment, which will be unveiled on wednesday. but, yes, we have the first, i would consider the first real contender to the ipad. and that is the motorola xoom. this is what it looks like here, and that's xoom-x-o-o-m, it's a 10.1-inch screen, instead of the ipad's 9.1-inch screen and the first to run on google's honeycomb op...
Let me show you how fast it is to load your music. it's like less than a millisecond. watch this, i just tapped it and you're good to go. look at that that's unheard of in a tablet, including the ipad, that exists now. we'll see about the ipad ii, in a couple of days. but really fast performance. a dual-core processor. running at one gigahertz. this is the first one. if you like to tinker and you like android, which is more of an open operating system, this is the first to impress a lot of critics out there. it is a little bit pricey, however. it's $600 on a two-year verizon term. because it d...
It's doa. $800 for a tablet is a lot of money. it's more expensive than the ipad. >> we can get a laptop for that. >> it's to rival prices for laptops. you can see the features here, a 10-inch display screen, powerful processor. it is running android 3.0 software. it's google's operating system meant to work for tablets not just smartphone devices. again, not cheap and that's quite an investment. we'll have to wait and see if that will be the final price. we're not sure yet what that's going to be. >> ipad2. that's being pushed in part not only -- they want to have new technology but the press...