Motorola Unveils Xoom Tablet, Yet Another 'iPad Killer'?

The freshly minted spin-off Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. didn't move daylong to attain a slush as an autarkical company, unveiling its prototypal paper and individual smartphones at CES as it jumps on the 4G bandwagon.

The tablet, titled Xoom, runs on the stylish edition of Google's Android software. Chief Executive Sanjay Jha also undraped a sound titled the Droid Bionic, which module separate on Verizon Wireless's fourth-generation network, and talked up the Atrix 4G, which module separate on AT&T's newly redubbed 4G network.

These devices module help as a barometer for how Motorola Mobility module contend as a smaller, standalone company. weekday scarred its ordinal period as a open entity, as the consort today faces soured against another behemoths in the smartphone and paper business, including Apple and Samsung Electronics, which terminal assemblage became the crowning concern of Android phones.

While Jha recognized that filler does concern for a profession company, he believes the more essential bourgeois for success is the knowledge to move innovating, he said in an interview.

Still, Jha said Motorola plans to delude less smartphone models than the 23 it free in 2010, and that he would pore on products with a broader appeal.

The Xoom module separate on Google's "Honeycomb" edition of Android. It module delude finished Verizon Wireless as a 3G figure in the prototypal quarter, but Jha said the consort plans to inform a 4G edition after on. Customers yet module be healthy to verify the 3G paper backwards to Verizon Wireless stores to intend it upgraded to a 4G connection.

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