{"id":5205,"date":"2011-09-04T19:38:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T17:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/digital-world\/video-motorola-xoom-tablet-review\/09-2011\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T13:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T11:01:37","slug":"video-motorola-xoom-tablet-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/technology\/video-motorola-xoom-tablet-review\/09-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Motorola Xoom Tablet Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Motorola\u2019s Android tablet Xoom was announced as one of the toughest competitors to the iPad. By chance, I currently have the opportunity to test a 3G model of the Xoom extensively.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

The excellent 10.1-inch display with 1280 \u00d7 800 pixels immediately stood out positively and remains very readable even in sunlight. I also really like Android Honeycomb 3.1. Together with the 1 GHz dual-core processor, the tablet even supports Flash. The voice input surprised me as well: text can be dictated in virtually any application with a high recognition rate.<\/p>\n\n

The rear 5-megapixel camera has a flash and autofocus and takes quite decent photos. There is also a camera for video chats, although Skype video was not yet supported on the Xoom. The built-in UMTS\/3G module supports HSDPA and HSUPA. GPS and Bluetooth are naturally included as well.<\/p>\n\n

However, you can also tell that the Xoom is one of the first true Android tablets. Somehow it still feels not quite mature \u2013 more like a prototype that already works reasonably well. I think the power button on the back is poorly positioned, as are the speakers. The frequently advertised SD-card reader is not even supported by the current software version. At 730 grams, the Xoom is also not exactly one of the lighter tablets.<\/p>\n\n

If you want to see the Xoom in action, simply watch the following video. I test the functions mentioned above and also discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the Xoom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Motorola\u2019s Android tablet Xoom was announced as one of the toughest competitors to the iPad. By chance, I currently have the opportunity to test a 3G model of the Xoom […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":null,"_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[320,287],"tags":[423,322,388,374,417,377,323,451,289,376,290,349,383,397],"class_list":["post-5205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-world","category-technology","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-apps","tag-computer","tag-google","tag-imho","tag-ipad","tag-motorola","tag-product-review","tag-tablet","tag-technology","tag-test","tag-video","tag-youtube","post_format-post-format-video","bwp-blog-post","bwp-masonry-item","bwp-col-1","bwp-post-has-title"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/XOOM_Dyns_composite.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5207,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205\/revisions\/5207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}