The Motorola Xoom might be the talk of the town for now, but word on the street is the company has plans to release a smaller, rugged Android tablet. Captured in a leaked slide this afternoon, the purported Motorola tablet features a 7-inch display, dual-core OMAP4 processor and ships with Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Ready to dive in?
The rugged Android tablet (pictured below) is aimed directly the Enterprise market. In fact, during the today’s presentation Motorola called the unnamed tablet the “first physical embodiment defining Android for the Enterprise.” Appropriately, Motorola has included the same 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera as used on the Xoom, but ups the ante with an 8-megapixel with added illumination and aiming for barcode scanning.
The 7-inch transmissive display runs at 1024 x 600 with 400 nit, complete with multi-touch functionality. Under the hood an OMAP4 dual-core 1 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM and 8GB NAND are on-board. Standard connectivity options are also in tow: Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, USB, HDMI out.
To earn its rugged title, the tablet can withstand a four foot drop, dust, splashing water and 0 to 50 Celsius operating temperature. For now the tablet remains in beta, where it will reside until October of this year. We’re not too sure how an Android 2.3 Gingerbread tablet will be greeted six months from now, but maybe Google will play ball and send out a Honeycomb update.
