Motorola unveils retail agreements for Xoom tablet

Nieuws Mobiel Verenigd Koninkrijk 17 FEB 2011
Motorola unveils retail agreements for Xoom tablet
Motorola Mobility announced that the Best Buy and Dixons Retail (Currys and PC World) in the UK as well as Deutsche Telekom in selected markets will be selling the Motorola Xoom Android tablet. The device runs on the Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS. Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy will launch the Motorola Xoom 3G/Wi-Fi and Currys and PC World will launch the Xoom Wi-Fi in Q2 2011.

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Mobiel

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Carphone Warehouse,  Best Buy,  PC World,  Deutsche Telekom,  Motorola Mobility

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Europa

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Verenigd Koninkrijk

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Distribution - retail outlets, Devices, Company, Launch, Consumer devices, Sales, Consumer, Client, Product

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