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hi I'm Norfolk technobuffalo com and i've know it from technobuffalo died upon a motorola xoom the new google android 30 powered tablet from motorola and verizon and i'm on an Apple iPad the first iOS powered tablet from apple at this and this is tablet wars alright so on the Left we've got the motorola xoom for verizon just released and let's get me off of that video off they're already set up so the motorola xoom for verizon on the right the apple ipad again it's mentioned at the top we're all expecting a new ipad to be unveiled at the event on March second which is just about a day and a half from now so you know we're going to we're going to talk about things as they are kind of mentioned a few things will expect from the new iPad but basically the big difference is you know obviously the first main differences you got the operating system google android 3.0 honeycomb has the first tablet-optimized operating system but based off of android and so the things that you know and love or no one hate or don't know about android all the widgets and the notifications and the multiple home screens and the ability to you know get notifications down there at the bottom that pop up when things are going on and your ability to connect with all the Google services and here you can add the shortcuts and the widgets and the live wallpapers and all that kind of stuff and then all the Google services built-in as mentioned you know the voice search and the maps functionality and you know all that good business the integration with Google accounts email you know Gmail system and calendars and contacts and everything and then on the iPad you've got the apple iOS I'm probably going to see a new version of iOS coming at the event later this week as well but are basically kind of a more simplified way of doing things you have the multiple home screens but you're limited just to two icons and folders no widgets no live wallpapers and I that kind of stuff the notification system is really you know just the same as on iphone you've got that that dialog box that will pop up and sort of stopped everything you don't have a little pop-up widgets on the bottom or the notifiers and the the bottom status bar there then let you know when you have you no new messages and that kind of thing you'll get you know if you have a new new mail or a new you know app store up there something that you'll get a little number will struggle the number that's about it beyond the you know the operating system differences which you know we could and people have at length and fought over as though it was the spanish civil war or something you know we're not going to go to end up with that right now but those are the basic differences Google honeycomb three that oh and iOS running here on the iPad physically you've got a 10.1 inch widescreen form factor screen so a 16-9 aspect ratio 1200 x 800 resolution gives you about a hundred and sixty dots per inch and then on the ipad you've got a 9.7 inch display 1024 x 768 so it's a four by three resolution not report by three aspect ratio not widescreen like the zoom and that's good for about 132 pixels per inch so a larger higher res and higher pixel density display on the zoom am I using I've had the zoom for only about four days now so don't think this is a full-on you know total review but I thought long enough to have a pretty good sense of what I think about it and my am I using it i prefer the zooms form factor i prefer the widescreen aspect ratio but i think the iPhone the iPhone the iPad actually has a better screen and the touchscreen is more sensitive iPads been out for a while the operating system has been refined a little bit they both work pretty well but I've just found that the ipad just is more sensitive and the screen just pops a little bit more we'll get into that a little more in a minute here both you know both phones both phones both tablets work in both landscape and horizontal orientation and I find out with the form factors the zoo is actually a little bit better both when you when you're looking at it in portrait mode it's better for both two handed typing and also for ebook reading it's a little little large for ebook reading in terms of you know one-handed use or you have holding it for a long period of time but for 2 2 thumb typing a little bit easier here and I'll show you the virtual keyboards in a minute the iPad a little more awkward with the four by three standard aspect ratio form factor a little bit more awkward to do to you know a little wide 42 Thun typing and not really wide enough in landscape mode for me to do kind of full-on touch typing I found myself hunting and pecking with two index fingers instead of regular touch typing zooms a little bit better for that but again I'm going to stop myself because I'm not talking about the keywords just yet we'll show you those in a minute but for factor wise i prefer the zoom build quality wise the ipad for sure it is heavier one thing that's nice about the zoom a little bit later but the materials in the ipad are just nicer it's better balanced it feels like a more luxurious object like I said the display is higher quality the touchscreen is more sensitive and accurate to me and then kind of a weird thing with the zune with the zoom depending on how you're holding it even though it is it is you know kind of a symmetrical design here with the kind of similar to the ipad with the curved back panel kind of wider in the middle and then it tapers out towards the ends because the zoom has this separate panel up top where the camera and the speakers aren't everything it actually it feels a little odd to me sometimes when I hold it this way because I've got you know one one hand my left hand the fingers are resting on that seem right there where the seam is not perfectly flush and then also the you know kind of affects the the taper and the materials are slightly different whereas on the iPad you know it's continuous it's that one piece metal back and it's pretty much perfectly symmetrical no matter which way you hold it so I just a little bit sometimes when I'm holding the zoom in you know the the portrait mode it just feels a little bit odd to be on the back it's not at all deal-breaker just something I've noticed but you know if build quality again overall the ipad to me has the advantage but the zoom is actually i think a better form factor and then also for widescreen video watching your natively in 10 9 mode here or 16 9 mode rather so I if I go back to this video you know this is a high def video to a 720p and so it naturally fills the screen whereas on the ipad i go into videos here go back to this video no we don't need to hear me again but naturally we're not filling it naturally you've got letterboxing at the top and bottom and then you can stretch but you're stretching and so your cropping outs in the side content so you know apple kind of explain why they did what they did but still kind of you know it's uh I don't know I just for both high def video watching and for holding the phone the long way the phone I keep saying the phone the tablet a long way I think an advantage to the zoom in terms of form factor ah we mentioned her i showed you briefly this back panel where the cameras are you know one thing the zooms are going for is that I've had doesn't no cameras on the current iPad the zoom has a front facing camera and then also a rear 5-megapixel camera dual LED flash and HD video capture not the greatest cameras in the world on the zoom honestly Motorola their cameras are always kind of you know okay but not amazing and you know similar story here with the zoom but you can use it you know right out of the box you can use it for gchat google chat with video gtalk rather google talk with video which is great now we're anticipating that the new ipad will have at least a front facing camera for face time if not a rear facing camera as well but at least for the next day or two you know advantage to the zoom for sure when it comes to cameras i don't personally think that a lot of people are going to be using this as a camera a lot because it's kind of unwieldy to hold this thing up to your face and take pictures you know with the rear camera but it's cool that it has it the front-facing camera i think more important because i think video chat could just become a killer app in the next year or so and tablets are perfect for video chat and then you know if you are kind of on the go and you're in a pinch you have a camera with you and it's always nice to have that as opposed to not being able to capture the shot also what i really like seeing as i do so much video work for a living is that there's a video app built in you know right out of the box with the zoom hopefully something that apple will counter the average version of imovie for ipad i'm fully expecting that with the new ipad myself we'll see but i built right in we've got this movie studio app and pretty easy i did kind of a goofy video there the other day but pretty easy to let's go new project now whoops we'll go back new project untitled is fine anchor and will import some footage and here's that movie I shot earlier Oh Ron file format oh well so we'll go back and this old one that I did the other day and you've got you know you've got a video editor built right in pretty basic but it works really well its got like a virtual you know these controls Google's metaphors a little bit different than apples but you know you can edit you can add I don't think I have any music on the device here something came with it so we'll put in hidden put a b.o.b they're going back a couple of years does it have to render out yet as to render out before let me do it but anyway there's a camera shot we'll use that one I can only do one thing at a time but you've got the ability to edit video on the fly which is really kind of cool at least you know in there we go and there I made a terrible movie but again you know just kind of neat that it has it because video editing you know for me personally something I do a lot something I can't do on an iPad so at least not yet so those kind of neat to see otherwise get back to specs for a minute we've got a 1 gigahertz Tegra 2 dual core processor in the zoom Tegra 2 all over the place at CES and Mobile World Congress all these dual core phones and tablets running Android and then Android throated oh honey comb optimized for tegra 2 so you know not a lot out of the box except for the the 3d elements on the UI some graphic acceleration in the UI that kind of thing we'll show you google maps real quick because google maps on zoom is pretty neat search for Empire State Building and so you've got ot building what well I don't know whatever to the mayor and the new 3d view kind of neat o on the zoom you know how much are you really going to use it I don't know but it's kind of cool and again with Google you know these technologies you never know where they're going to wind up I have to get kind of used to Peter you can you can kind of pan and tilt and stuff and so a few things you know that take advantage of the dual core processor now I saw some gaming demos at mo world congress of games that were optimized for the tegra two chip running on a zoom actually that looks very impressive so we should see some stuff coming soon that takes advantage more advantage of the dual core processor and then you've got you know the iPad it's a single core 1 gigahertz processor we're expecting the next iPad to have you know to to get a bump right now it's the single core apple a4 rumors kicking around about a possible dual core a9 and the ipad 2 nobody knows for sure yet but you know again I advantage hardware wise to the zoom right now we'll see what Apple does to you know kind of bump things up in the next iPad it's obviously not all about spec so if one again expects a little bit more 1 gigabyte of RAM in the zoom 256 Meg's in the iPad video playback on the zoom it can do 1080p the tegra chip can do 1080p on the iPad you're limited to 720p video out you can get the dock adapter for the ipad vga out whereas the zoom has a mini HDMI built right in or micro HDMI whatever they call it you have to have a special cable which is kind of annoying to an input a foolish in my cable on there but you know that that's just kind of how these things go i guess and then you've also got mazal mention with the porch you've got a USB to a tow port and then you've got a microSD port or SD card slot but the slot is disabled right now which is kind of weak on the iPad you know typical apple you have nothing besides that one dock connector you can get the camera connection kit that lets you use an SD card you just got an SD card reader to import videos and photos but not you know straight up USB connectivity