Motorola Mobility will launch the Xoom Wi-Fi edition tablet in the US on 27 March. The Motorola Xoom features a 10.1-inch widescreen with Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), a 1GHz dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM. The Google Mobile services include Google Maps 5.0 with 3D interaction and access to more than 3 million Google eBooks and applications from the Android Market. The Motorola Xoom also supports a beta of Adobe Flash Player 10.2 downloadable from Android Market, enabling the delivery of Flash-based web content including videos, casual games and internet applications. Motodev, Motorola's developer support programme to enable tablet and smartphone features, enables Motorola Xoom to access more than 150,000 applications within the Android Market as well as the increasing number of applications optimised directly for the Android 3.0 OS. Amazon.com, Best Buy, Costco, RadioShack, Sam's Club (select locations), Staples and Walmart will be offering the tablet, through both online and retail store channels. In addition, the Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi will be available to commercial IT channels and regional retailers through a distribution agreement with business process services company Synnex, and regional carriers through mobile handset distributor Brightpoint. The suggested retail price for the Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi with 32GB of memory will be USD 599.
