Last month, Motorola launched its much-awaited Xoom tablet at CES 2011 in Las Vegas. Motorola Xoom is the first tablet device powered by the Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) operating system. Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola Mobility, recently confirmed to the press at Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona that, the company will sell its first tablet device, without any contract for $799 at Verizon Wireless.
Motorola Xoom features a 10.1 inch touchscreen display with 1280 x 800 pixels resolution, Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) OS, 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor, Wi-Fi, 3G Connectivity, 5 megapixel rear camera with HD (720p) video recording, 2 megapixel front-facing camera, micro USB 2.0, 32GB internal memory, 1GB DDR2 RAM and more.
Sanjay Jha confirmed that, the Wi-Fi only version of Motorola Xoom will be available for $600 without any contract. He also said that, “nearly all Motorola products will use Google’s Android software this year”. However, he hasn’t revealed any details on the availability of this tablet. Motorola Xoom will be upgraded to 4G LTE later this year.