Motorola Xoom Tablet Zooms to a February Release

Depending on who you ask, Motorola’s Xoom tablet currently ranks as the most anticipated slate of 2011, primarily because it’s supposed to be the first to sport Google’s Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) platform. According to DigiTimes, Motorola will launch the Xoom sometime this month (a leaked Best Buy document suggests a February 17th release), while most other Android 3.0 tablets won’t see the light of day until after March.

That’s great news for everyone who resisted giving into the Dark Side by picking up an iPad. Early Android tablets never really lived up to the hype, but Honeycomb is the first version to be built from the ground up with tablets in mind. What little Google has shown of its next generation OS looks highly promising; let’s hope Motorola makes good use of it.

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Image Credit: Motorola

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Tags: hardware, mobile, motorola, News Worthy, slate, tablet, Xoom

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