The iPad has been available for less than two years, but at least one analyst from J.P. Morgan believes an “increasing risk of a bubble burst” to the tablet market awaits in the second half of 2011. Based on exaggerated build plans from tablet makers and a lack of a high-volume tablet competitor to the iPad, the firm has slashes its tablet sales forecasts for 2011 by 20 percent to a 65 million unit estimate. Are we sitting on a tablet bubble, ready to burst later this year?
Tagged ‘Motorola Xoom’
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We’ve had our chance to put the Motorola Xoom through its paces in our review, but now the company is repositioning the device as “the tablet designed for business”. A mantra previously limited to our friends at RIM with the launch of the BlackBerry PlayBook, the world’s first professional tablet.
The streaming gods are looking down on us and smiling this afternoon as we just received our early invite to Music Beta by Google, better known as Google Music. Armed with a passion to take our music library on the go, we set out to install the app, upload our music and put the service through its paces. Does Music Beta by Google live up to the hype?
Ladies and gentlemen feast your eyes on the top five stories breaking headlines and hearts this side of the pond. We kick things off with the release of the HDHomeRun PRIME, a networked CableCARD tuner which aims to please the media center enthusiast in your life. Android 3.1 is hitting some Motorola Xoom WiFi owners, but it’s missing the Movie rental feature. We close the show with two new HTC smartphones that pack a punch, the HTC Holiday and Lead.
The Android 3.1 update rollout currently underway promises performance improvements, browser stability, new USB device support and Movies. Unfortunately, owners of the Motorola Xoom WiFi edition are reporting the Movies tab is not available inside the Android Market. It appears Verizon Wireless customers with their 3G variant will be receiving the royal treatment this time around.
Proud owners of the Verizon Wireless branded Motorola Xoom will be treated to a fresh new build of Android Honeycomb, version 3.1. The news hit the Android community this morning at Google I/O in San Francisco, CA. We’ve reached out to Motorola’s UK team in hopes of tracking down our own release date, but it appears a time frame for the UK has not been established. In the meantime, let’s take a look at Android Honeycomb 3.1, shall we?
Going down smoother than a bottle of aged whiskey, it’s your morning US Update. Kicking things off this fine morning is official shipments numbers of the Motorola Xoom, a warning issued by RIM that smartphone shipments will not meet forecasts and a 3D navigation update to Samsung’s Galaxy players. This and more on your US Update.
Ready for the tablet curveball of the week? How about a Motorola Xoom WiFi-only tablet headed to first 4G carrier in the US. This is exactly the way the cards have been dealt by Sprint/Nextel, announcing via press release this afternoon they’d be adding Motorola’s first tablet to their portfolio sans 4G connectivity.