{"id":18945,"date":"2011-03-08T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-03-08T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T12:47:00","slug":"motorola-xoom-and-atrix-new-launch-dates-for-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/18945-motorola-xoom-and-atrix-new-launch-dates-for-sa.html","title":{"rendered":"Motorola Xoom and Atrix: New launch dates for SA"},"content":{"rendered":"

A spokesperson for Motorola South Africa recently predicted that they would have the Motorola Xoom Android tablet<\/a> in local stores during April 2011.<\/p>\n

It has since been confirmed that the Motorola Xoom will only be available in South Africa from May 2011.<\/p>\n

The device was announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January 2011, where it was crowned best gadget of the show.<\/p>\n

It runs Android 3.0 Honeycomb on an Nvidia Tegra 2 1Ghz dual-core processor and has 1GB DDR2 RAM and 32GB on-board storage.<\/p>\n

Honeycomb is the first version of Google’s mobile operating system (OS) designed with tablets in mind, and the Xoom was the first tablet launched that runs the new operating system.<\/p>\n

Motorola also announced their Atrix “4G” earlier this year and launched it with the Mototola Xoom in the US.<\/p>\n

According to the technical specifications provided by Motorola, the device is powered by a 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 AP20H dual core system-on-a-chip (SoC) and shipped with Android FroYo (Frozen Yoghurt), version 2.2.1.<\/p>\n

It sports a 4 inch 540×960 qHD display, 1GB RAM, up to 16GB on board storage, and microSD expandable storage of up to 32GB.<\/p>\n

The Motorola Atrix seems to earn its “4G” moniker by supporting Category 10 14Mbps HSDPA, which is a stretch for the term by any definition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Motorola’s specification sheets indicate W-CDMA support for 850, 1900, and 2100 networks, which is rather bad news for Cell C customers as the operator’s new HSPA+ network runs mainly in the 900 MHz band.<\/p>\n

The feature that really seems to set the Atrix apart is its “webtop application” which Motorola claims will let you use the smartphone like a computer by plugging it into separately sold docking stations which in turn connect the device to a normal computer monitor and keyboard.<\/p>\n

There is no word yet on what the devices will cost locally, but Motorola has promised that they will be competitively priced.<\/p>\n

Given the recent reduction in iPad prices in SA, it will be interesting to see how competitive Motorola can be.<\/p>\n

Motorola Xoom and Atrix: New launch dates for SA<\/strong><\/a> << Comments and views<\/p>\n

Relevant links<\/strong><\/p>\n

Motorola Xoom fact sheet<\/a><\/p>\n

Motorola Xoom official page<\/a><\/p>\n

Motorola Xoom MZ601, MZ603 (3G)<\/a><\/p>\n

Motorola Xoom MZ604 (Wi-Fi)<\/a><\/p>\n

Motorola Atrix MB860 technical specifications<\/a><\/p>\n

Motorola Atrix product page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Motorola's new Android tablet launch has been pushed back while the Moto Atrix is due to arrive in stores in July<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}