This year’s Consumer Electronics Show is now history, and it was interesting in several ways. There were a number of Apple iPad tablet competitors announced, but there were surprisingly few that gathered much interest.
The Motorola Xoom tablet got the most buzz, and it is impressive indeed. It runs the next Android operating system called HoneyComb, and it appears that for the first time Android is truly being optimized for tablets.
The device has a fast, dual-core processor and can be upgraded at some point to use the LTE 4G network. It should be released by April at the latest, perhaps close to the rumored Apple iPad upgrade.
My favorite innovation announced at the show was the Motorola Atrix cell phone. I told a friend recently that my idea for the future of mobile would be some sort of device that would allow accessing your data anywhere. The Atrix model of design promises to accomplish that nicely.
First of all the phone itself is an excellent Android device. The Atrix can be docked with a desktop or laptop terminal, basically allowing you to have a complete computer experience anywhere you go and have the terminals set up.