Image via CrunchBaseMotorola Introduces the Xoom, Its Answer to the iPad - NYTimes.comMotorola Introduces the Xoom, Its Answer to the iPad
By JENNA WORTHAM
6:30 p.m. | Updated Adding more on the Xoom and other new products.
LAS VEGAS — Motorola
, which has fought its way back into the cellphone market, is now taking on Apple’s iPad.
, which has fought its way back into the cellphone market, is now taking on Apple’s iPad.
At a packed press event at the Consumer Electronics Showhere, the company showed off a tablet called the Xoom. It uses the newest version of Google’s Android operating system, called Honeycomb, which is designed to make it easier to interact with a touchscreen tablet. Among other new features, the Xoom will come with new Google mapping software that displays and rotates 3-D building outlines.
here, the company showed off a tablet called the Xoom. It uses the newest version of Google’s Android operating system, called Honeycomb, which is designed to make it easier to interact with a touchscreen tablet. Among other new features, the Xoom will come with new Google mapping software that displays and rotates 3-D building outlines.“So far for Android, we’ve seen handset operating systems meant for phones running on tablets,” said Sanjay Jha, chief executive of Motorola Mobility, in an interview before the event. “This was an operating system built for a tablet from the ground up.” (As of Tuesday, Motorola split itself into two companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions, which is focused on business customers.)
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