Though, Xoom has comparable features and pricing to the high end version of Apple's iPad 2. The question now becomes, will the high end of the tablet market keep pace with the low end?
Motorola Xoom is not yet ready to supersede iPad2. After its launch on February 24, Deutsche Bank released a sales estimate of 100,000 units of Motorola Xoom compared to a huge number of 300,000 units of iPad2 sold on day one. The number is growing exponentially for iPad2.
Pacific Crest analyst James Faucette said in an analyst note yesterday that channel checks for Motorola's Xoom and Atrix 4G have come up with some disappointing results
LG Thrill 4G smartphone features are right up there with Motorola's Atrix 4G
Apple's iPad 2 topped the charts among the 10 most-promising tablet computers, according to ConsumerReports.
Bankrupt Nortel Networks has reached a deal to sell its patent portfolio to Google for $900 million, kick-starting an auction process for assets coveted as weaponry for a growing wireless patent war.
Most tablet makers are building the wrong field of dreams and at least one CEO has got himself separated from his company for it. It is plain for all to see that Apple's field of dreams is their network of dedicated Apple stores worldwide.This might even be the reason why Apple will own the tablet space for the foreseeable future. Richard Shim, senior analyst at Displaysearch wrote in this blog about the exigencies of selling a product like a table through a traditional retail chain such ...
The amount of competitive new launches near-term is making it a little bit tougher for Motorola Mobility, especially for its Xoom tablet.
Apple has given a big lead to forecasters as to what the next iPhone will carry when it launched the iPad 2 in March. The other most important lead to predict the future iPhone 5 is the competition in the current market. Post-CES 2011, HTC, Motorola and Samsung have launched some powerful and slender Android devices, which have set the critical minimum standard that Apple will have to reach to make a mark with its new iPhone 5.
The star of CES 2011 Motorola Xoom has ushered in the age of Android 3.0 or Honeycomb and brought about super specifications like killer camera's and dual-core processors to the limelight faces but now faces stiff competition from the new slimmer Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Barclays Capital said Apple Inc.'s iPad 2, which began shipping in the U.S. on March 11, remains sold out across retailers with limited sporadic availability at Apple stores themselves and 4-5 week wait times via Apple.com.
Tablet thinness factor, a new parameter to judge the tablets, was introduced by Apple earlier this month when it launched its ultra thin tablet iPad 2.
Sprint announced plans to bring its Nextel based push-to-talk service to its CDMA network.
Apple has managed to significantly cut the thickness and weight of iPad 2 by trimming the dimensions of several key components, most notably the battery, according to a new report by IHS iSuppli.
The device is a follow-up to the 3G version of the device released last month.
The leaked photos of Droid X2, Targa and Droid 3 appears online.
Motorola Droid Bionic Equally Staged for Combat with HTC Inspire 4G
Motorola Mobility is said to have missed the early market opportunity as the initial sales of Xoom is rumored to be weak.
Oppenheimer lowered its profit forecast on phone giant Nokia as the company is seeing greater than market seasonal weakness in demand in the first quarter of 2011.
Since, Japan is one of the world's largest economies, it is said that business activities of some of the U.S. communication technology (CommTech) companies could be disrupted in near term.
Motorola has started rolling out updates to Xoom tablets in preparation for a later flash update.
The launch of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad 2 is pointing to an increasing risk of bubble burst in the tablet market in the second half of 2011, according to an analyst from JPMorgan.
