Motorola teases new tablet by ragging on iPad, Galaxy Tab
updated 01:30 pm EST, Mon December 20, 2010
Motorola hints Android tablet with digs at rivals
Motorola today gave out a teaser video (below) for an introduction of its upcoming Android tablet at its CES event on January 5. The clip targeted competitors and considers the iPad a milestone, but digs at the Apple slate being "like a giant iPhone" in both a curse and a blessing. Motorola doesn't avoid attacking fellow Android supporters, however, and criticizes Samsung for using Android 2.2 on the Galaxy Tab: the device uses "Android OS... for a phone," the promo said.
Very little is mentioned directly of the tablet itself, but the jab at Samsung is confirmation that the tablet on show will be the same one demonstrated by Andy Rubin. Android 3.0, or possibly just 2.4, will have a new interface designed explicitly for tablets. All of the hardware navigation buttons will be moved to the touchscreen to provide a consistent interface from any orientation. It will also have more explicit support for larger apps and should handle legacy Android apps more intelligently than the Galaxy Tab, which just upscales them to fit the larger screen.
The design when it ships should be a Verizon halo device and could have 4G when it arrives. All versions will have a dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, a 1280x800 screen, 32GB of storage and both front as well as back cameras. Talk has surfaced that the new Android build might not be ready until February and thus that Motorola couldn't ship its tablet any sooner than then.
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it's like a giant iPhone...
except, you know, it's not a phone, and it's a lot easier to read documents on than an iPhone, and oh by the way... really, it's more like iPhone is a miniature iPad that has a phone built in. iPad was developed first and gave birth to the iPhone, you know, Moto.
("it's like a giant iPhone"... you say that like it's a bad thing... losers)