Posts Tagged ‘Xoom’
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Motorola will be at the IT Show 2012 in Suntec Singapore at Level 3, Booth 3008 and Level 6, Booth 6018. Check out the sleek Motorola RAZR (black and glacier versions) and the cool XOOM 2 tablet at the show.
Win a 4D3N stay for 2 at the W Retreat Koh Samui.
Customers can also stand a chance at winning a 4D3N stay at the W Retreat Koh Samui with every purchase! Ten hotel vouchers, each worth $2,000, will be given away.
Check out the sleek Motorola RAZR smartphone at the IT Show 2012.
Motorola will be giving away $100 Takashimaya vouchers and free limited edition Android thumbdrives (worth $38) to the first 100 customers who purchase the Motorola RAZR or Motorola XOOM 2.
Motorola devices will also be available at M1, Starhub & Singtel booths during the show.
Tags:discount, IT Show, IT Show 2012, Motorola, RAZR promotion, Singapore, smartphones, Suntec, tablets, Xoom
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Friday, April 22nd, 2011
First day sales of the newly launched BlackBerry PlayBook from RIM was said to reach 50,000 on April 19. RIM is expected to sell 500,000 of the 7 inch tablets in its first quarter ending in May.
The first day sales number of 50,000 includes pre-sales and was estimated by an analyst at RBC Capital Markets. This appears to surpass the equivalent first day sales for Motorola’s Xoom and the Samsung Galaxy Tab.
Analyst Mike Abramsky’s staff checked 70 retails stores and found 11% of the locations that stocked the device had sold out, according to Matt Hamblen from Computerworld.
This may come as a surprise to many observers in view of the negative reviews that have bombarded Research In Motion (RIM) over the launch of the tablet computer.
Punters feel the software for the PlayBook was not ready yet because native support for email, contact and calendar apps were not available. Such support may only be provided as an over the air update in summer.
In the meantime, only those who own a BlackBerry smartphone can enable the PlayBook to access these basic apps via a Bluetooth connection. The tablet is only available in WiFi configuration with 3G available only in summer.
It is still too early to tell whether the PlayBook will be able to grab any market share from a tablet market seeing an influx of competitors to Apple’s iPad.
Tags:BlackBerry, Galaxy, Motorola, Playbook, RIM, Samsung, Tab, Xoom
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Friday, February 25th, 2011
This is hardly surprising since the iPad has been the only tablet around for most of last year, until Samsung’s Galaxy Tab.
According to data from ABI Research, of the approximately 4.5 million tablets sold in the third quarter of 2010, about 93 percent were Apple iPads.
The original iPad went on sale on 3 April 2010. Reports anticipate the announcement of the iPad 2 next week on 2 Mar 2011.
Samsung’s well-received Android-based Galaxy Tab was launched late last year, while Motorola’s Xoom Android-based tablet became available yesterday. Research In Motion plans to release four versions of its Playbook this year.
Tags:Apple, Galaxy, iPad, Motorola, Samsung, Xoom
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Have you received the invitation from Apple?
Apple emailed the invitation to a media event in San Francisco that showed a calendar page with the date 2 March and the top right corner of the page peeling back to reveal an iPad underneath. The peek-a-boo iPad suggests that Apple may unveil its new version of the iPad during the event.
Earlier reports from Taiwan-based Yuanta Securities had surmised that the iPad launch might be delayed to June this year because of production bottlenecks at the China production line of Hon Hai – Apple’s Taipei-based contract manufacturer.
Indulging in my own bit of speculation, both schools of thought may not be untrue. We might actuallly see an iPad announcement on March 2 followed by the taking of orders, with deliveries only materialising in June, probably staged out based on country.
What with the legion of Android tablets being unveiled by the day, with specs that trounce the year old iPad, any delay in unveiling the upgraded specs of iPad 2 could create a negative impression in people that the iPad is inferior to Android tablets.
The announcement of iPad2 with all the specs that has been rumoured to ship with it should maintain its aura of invincibility that over challengers.
Apple certainly won’t want to announce the iPad 2 in June only to have people yawn at its specs, since by then it may already have been featured on the Android tablets out there.
Samsung’s Android-based Galaxy Tab was launched last year and was well-received. Motorola’s Xoom Android-based tablet goes on sale today, while Research In Motion plans to release four versions of its Playbook this year.
The original iPad went on sale on April 3. Announcing the iPad 2 on March would mean that it will follow an annual cycle of updates like the iPhone and iPod.
Tags:Android, Apple, Galaxy, iPad, Motorola, Playbook, RIM, Samsung, tablets, Xoom
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