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what's up John rhett injure from TechnoBuffalo here at the done boxes I'm really looking forward to this is the first Android 3.0 honeycomb tablet of course it is the Motorola Xoom spelled with an X don't confuse that with a Z the way you'd expect to spell it let's go ahead and get started alright so here's a picture of the zoom on the box interestingly enough the Box doesn't come sealed so maybe that meant there was a last minute firmware update or whatever the Box doesn't come sealed so when you buy it don't pick it up like this or you're gonna drop your $800 tablet and yes that was not an error this thing is going to cost you $800 which is a lot of money for a tablet so here's a picture of the device on the front some specs on the back nothing really on the side nothing on the side package contents we'll see what that is in a minute I'm talking a bit about Android 3.0 honeycomb marilla zoom with Google powered by Android 3.0 on the verizon network this is a CDMA device at launch and will support Verizon EVDO Rev a but it will be upgradable and the rumor and what it looks like it's going to be it's actually going to be a hardware upgrade to Verizon's 4G LTE so stay tuned TechnoBuffalo for details on that there's a lot of optimization to your meant for the tablet and for those that have been following that Android 3.0 news you'll know that 3.0 it's the first Android operating system that's optimized for the tablet so you get a new YouTube interface new Google Maps and a tablet version of Angry Birds which we've seen but enough of me talking about the tablet let's go ahead and dig in and I will run through all the specs and I have actually not held one of these yet person so I'm actually really looking forward to it so here is the Motorola Xoom it feels pretty nice in the hand we'll take just a minute let's see what else you're going to get in the box one point of note if you do buy this from Best Buy in at launch it's available from Best Buy retailers or your Verizon Wireless store if you buy it from Best Buy you are going to to activate one month of data you can go down to their lowest plan which is $20 per month and then you can choose to sort of cancel it after that but in order to get it out of the store you are going to have to activate it the Wi-Fi is not locked on it but in order to take it out of Best Buy you are going to have to pay for that if you buy it from Verizon store you will not have to so you may be better off heading to your local big red retailer so we've got some paperwork nothing anybody's ever gonna read we've got a micro USB cord seen that under a lot of times and we've got a charging cable and it doesn't charge via micro USB looks like it needs a little bit more power than micro USB can provide so you've got a proprietary charging jack you can see right there interestingly enough there are a lot of dock accessories and the dock accessories charged via the micro USB with the main charging for this guy does not so here is the tablet and it looks very tablet II let me run through the specs very quickly and then we'll do a walk-through of the device it is a 10.1 inch and that's always diagonal when you hear the screen size a 10.1 inch capacitive touchscreen oh it's a pretty nice resolution of 1280 by 800 and from the specs standpoint this guy really does bring the heat so to speak within videos dual core Tegra 2 so that is 2 cores with 1 gigahertz of power each of each core you're gonna have a gig of ram of course Android 3.0 honeycomb on the back hopefully we've got a 5 megapixel camera right there with dual LED flash on that can take video at 1280 by 720 which is 720p for all your video folks out there and that can shoot at 30 frames per second it also has a front-facing camera which is not VGA resolution as we see on most front-facing cameras this one's actually 2 megapixels which is quite nice it's got support for a DLNA which is a way to send content wirelessly to a television or a DLNA and able to buy so video and music you know whatever it is you're looking at 802 11 + BG + 32 gigs of internal storage there is somewhere on here we'll take a look when we get there a micro SD expansion card slot bref is right there however that is not activated at launch bryson and motorola have said that'll come at a later software firmware not firmware update so now let's go ahead and peel off the plastics I can already see the comments people saying peel off that plastic so let's go ahead and do that and take a look at the tablet and I will enjoy the probably three minutes that I have a tablet without fingerprints on it let's go ahead and pull this thing off and a screen should be pretty durable it is Gorilla Glass on top of it so let's go ahead and pull off all the plastic and let's do a tour of this guy so more plastic on it yet even more plastic okay I kind of want to keep it on that's it it's already got fingerprints on it I may perhaps just have especially greasy hands I didn't just see french fries but maybe I'm just a greasy dude in general alright so we've got that whooshing noise I'm not gonna throw this across the room pulling off everything and let's take a look at what we've got on here from a port standpoint because there is a lot this is definitely an expensive tablet but you do get a lot in the spec department alright so there is the screen obviously I have to point out the screen you probably don't belong watching any sort of videos so there is the micro USB charging port right there you mentioned the proprietary charging dock on the top you're gonna have a 3.5 millimeter headset jack I'm not sure if that's a SIM card or if that's where looks like that is where throw it on the floor but it appears that that was actually a dummy SIM card in there so that's where your LTE SIM card is going to go I'm go ahead and push the back so I don't bust open this tablet they'll slide back in place on the left hand side you've got a volume rocker up and down bottom stuff we already showed there's some dock connectors down there as well on the left hand side nothing on the back Motorola logo you've got speaker dual speakers there's your dual LED flash I'm actually just flicking off the camera by accident there's your five megapixel camera and on top was all that stuff we just showed so let me go ahead and bring in probably what a lot of you are going to a cross shop the zoom with and again zoom with an X I here is a quick size comparison with the iPad and you can see how greasing my fingers actually are I get that right angle there and of course we'll do a full iPad versus zoom comparisons but in case you guys are sort of wondering what this is gonna look like from a thickness standpoint there you go on first blush and certainly haven't turned this on yet the zoom does have a nice build quality to it it feels in a really good and solid I'm speaking of turning it on you're probably noticing there isn't a any physical capacitive buttons down here as we've seen with normal Android devices the home and you search and the rest of them they're all soft buttons here on the OS so if I can figure out how to turn this sucker on which is always a a treat I will do a first boot up for you alright so the power button actually does rest on the back right there so when you're holding it your finger is not going to touch it but you can just access the power button alright there and I also want to mention that there is a microphone on the bottom there as well so for video chat or Skype whatever you want this is going to work for you so I will power this thing on and see what the first Android Honeycomb boot up looks like so I get to an Android or sorry Motorola dual-core that we saw on the Atrix or their new splash screen which is still kinda cool to see dual-core allegedly honeycomb takes advantage of the dual core processor much more than we've seen with previous versions of Android in particular Android 2.2 Froyo so hopefully we will have blistering fast video performance and overall multitasking so with that looks like a honeycomb there's all kinds of honeycomb animations going on welcome and there's a little Android guy waving he's saying hello to you personally let's go ahead and hit start touch screen works that's nice touch skip to complete setup and continue using Wi-Fi instead activating on Verizon Wireless I find that incredibly annoying that I had to sign up for a data could get this from Best Buy let's go ahead and well we'll go ahead and let it activate Rison wireless so stay tuned for a full tour of Android 3.0 honeycomb camera test ipad comparisons all the stuff that you expect from TechnoBuffalo for a new hot device like this anything in particular that you guys would want to see that you might think we might not cover be sure to leave your comments down below and we will check it out for you and sort of while this is activating i've got a bonus for those you that stuck around the 7-8 odd minutes we've got the motorola protective portfolio case keeping in vein would be pretty high pricing this thing's gonna be $40 if you want to pick it up from Best Buy or your Verizon store however if you buy a case you do not have to activate a data plan though which is nice of them let's go ahead and pull this out and see what it looks like if I can do that and it is just about what you'd expect it is a case that lets you sort of prop it up at different angles it's got throw that rubbery feel to it it's got some hard plastic on the side to hold your zoom with an X in place and you can sort of prop it up and do what you want with it so that's the case I'll show you in a future video what it looks like on the case in the meantime activation is complete so touch next to continue was set up maybe a little bit on the slow side this is EVDO Rev a certainly Verizon's LTE as I've said on many many and many times is blistering fast and really kind of nice to use so I'm not going to bore you with the setup process estate student TechnoBuffalo for the rest of the coverage I'm John rent injure from the aforementioned TechnoBuffalo sure to check out the website for all your tech news and I will see you in the next video bye-bye