Gadgetory

today I'm here as a comparison between the first three android 3.0 honeycomb tablets that are going to be available the motorola xoom the LG optimus tab which is also going to be known as the t-mobile g slate in the United States and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 each of these tablets will be on sale soon and have their own strengths and weaknesses so let's take a look to start with we have the motorola xoom i had some hands-on time of the zoom at cts last month and came away very impressed the hardware is undoubtedly solid with a 10.1 inch display with a resolution of 1280 by 800 along with an impressively small bezel you also will find support for verizon 3g along with the ability to upgrade to 4g later on in the summer there also should be a Wi-Fi only model which should be available in spring some of the smaller touches include a user replaceable battery which certainly a great addition along with a swamp for a microSD card it also features a 2-megapixel front-facing camera and a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera along with HDMI out for outputting up to 1080p video on a high-definition television the zoom has a 1 gigahertz dual-core nvidia to processor along with one gigabyte of ram which gives it more than enough power to run android 3.0 honeycomb speaking of the operating system it runs a pure stock version of android just like the other two tablets which have been faster updates to future firmwares the biggest question with the zoom is price most rumours peg it at around eight hundred dollars for the 32 gigabyte 3g model which while I don't think as a deal-breaker is certainly quite a bit next let's take a look at the LG optimus tab this tablet differentiates itself from the others was the smaller 8.9 inch display however the key is that supports 3d a bike with glasses while the requirement for glasses to view any 3d content is less than ideal you can of course new content and standard 2d like other tablets the Optimus tab is going to come with support for t-mobile 4g along with of course Wi-Fi and 32 gigabytes of internal storage a very cool feature of the tablet is that in addition to having a standard front-facing camera if sports dual 5 megapixel rear facing cameras which can record up to 1080p 3d video the optimist tab is powered by the same 1 gigahertz Tegra 2 processors from the zoom what you give it plenty of grunt to go through 1080p 3d video it is scheduled to be on sale during the first quarter of this year for an undisclosed and likely a very expensive price lastly we have the samsung galaxy tab 10.1 the latest galaxy tab sports a brand-new 10.1 inch display keeping it a very similar size and shape to the motorola xoom in fact you can compare it directly to the zoom in many categories as it features the same 1 gigahertz dual-core Tegra 3 processor same 1280 x 800 resolution on the 32 gigabytes of internal storage and support for hspa+ on the other hand you won't find a standard USB port or HDMI on this nor will you see a slot for a microSD card for expanding the memory the galaxy tab does have some nice looks going forward along with a 2-megapixel front-facing camera and a high-resolution 8 megapixel rear facing camera with LED flash that's capable of 1080p video capture the key here I believe will be the price as with the smaller feature set it really does need to undercut the zoom in the price department so that wraps it up personally I'm keeping an eye on the zoom as it seems like right now it's going to offer the best ratio of tablet to cash especially once the Wi-Fi model comes around to knock some of the price off