Motorola Xoom – The Original Tablet with Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) – Technology – Gadgets and Gizmos

21321995016_motorolaz6m.jpgIn the Consumer Electronics Association (CES) on January 5, 2011, Motorola Xoom was given the honor as being the best gadget of the year. This is a tablet media player which estimated can become the actual rival of Apple iPad, Blackberry PlayBook or Samsung Galaxy Tab. Motorola Xoom stands out as the 1st tablet which employed the Android Honeycomb operating system.

Further, it turns into a model example of Google to distribute Honeycomb developed especially for the tablet PC device. Below are the technical specs of the PC tablet. Screen It provides a 10.1-inch multitouch capacitive touch screen display, 160 PPI, Gorilla Glass (proof coating), resolution of 1280x800p as well as aspect ratio of 16:10. It weighs 730 grams with the dimensions of 249.1 millimeters tall, 167.8 mm wide, as well as 12.9 mm in depth. It has ambient light sensors, barometer, magnetometer (compass), S-GPS, three-axis accelerometer as well as 3-axis gyroscope. Processor and Operating System This PC tablet has Nvidia Tegra 2 T20, 1 Gigahertz dual-core CPU and 1 GB DDR2 of SDRAM. Additionally, it possesses an integrated flash memory of 32 GB and external slot microSD card right after software upgrade.

Motorola Xoom is packed with Android 3.0 Honeycomb and it’s also upgradable to Android 3.2 version. The update of 3.1 Honeycomb is actually conducted just outside of United States and it will surely deliver substantial developments that include the activation of SD card slot. Camera Motorola Xoom features five MP rear camera together with 4 times digital zoom, auto-focus, dual LED flash and the 2 megapixels front facing camera. It will record 720p of video at 30 frames per second. Multi-media This tablet can play AAC, AAC, AMR NB, AMRWB, MP3, and also XMF music formats and can play H.263, H.264, MPEG4, and also VP8 video formats. Connections For CDMA version, this tablet runs on EVDO Rev. A network while for the GSM model it runs using GPRS/EDGE Class 12 UMTS/HSDPA. The tablet also features Bluetooth 2.1 EDR, micro-HDMI 1.4 (type D), micro-USB 2.0 plus Wi-Fi capability.

On the whole, the Motorola Xoom will be the very first 10.1 inches tablet that uses Honeycomb OS. This is usually a classy tablet because it possesses a modest layout and the display is wonderful as it is brighter, clearer and possesses higher quality as opposed to the iPad. The capacitive touchscreen display is very sensitive. Additionally, it features HD video shooting and a top quality secondary digital camera for excellent video conferences. Sadly, it is quite heavy-weight for a tablet computer, there’s not much accessory option, plus it doesn’t support flash.

Unlock Any Motorola Cliq 2 – Technology

01321995015_motoz8.jpgThe Motorola Cliq 2 was launched in January 2011. Its design is similar to the original Motorola Cliq cellphone, but has also been updated with a chrome surround and curved soft touch plastic backside. A number of other important improvements consist of a bigger display, faster data, improved music player, a great slide-out keyboard, new Android Operating-system, and more. This is also a very good social-networking smartphone thanks to a number of great social networking widgets supplied by Motoblur. The phone can operate on 2G Networks (GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900) and 3G Networks (HSDPA 1700 / 2100 / 850).

A number of major features on this smartphone consist of a 1 GHz processor, 1 Gb of built in storage space (as well as an external microSD card slot that could support up to 32 Gb of additional storage), and 512 Megabytes of RAM. It measures 116 x 59.6 x 14.5 mm, weighs 175 grams, has a 3.7 inch (~265 ppi pixel density) TFT capacitive touchscreen display with 256K colors, 5 Mp autofocus dual-LED flash digital camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v2.1, microUSB v2.0, Gps, and runs on the Android v2.2 Froyo Os.

If you bought this phone and have decided to switch carrier, or maybe you’re traveling and would like to use the phone with a different simcard, you’ll need to unlock the phone. If you don’t unlock it, a warning message will appear on the cellphone the moment you put in a new simcard.

Listed below are the instructions you must follow to unlock your Motorola Cliq 2:

1. Place a non-accepted simcard (a simcard which isn’t from the original service provider). Power on phone.

2. Phone won’t recognise the new sim and will prompt you for a subsidy password.

3. Type in your unlock code. If you do not have an unlock code, have a look at the footer of this article for instructions on where you can get one.

4. Your phone is now unlocked.

Note: If your phone is on a 3G network, type **057* then enter the unlock code into the window that appears.

Once the unlock code is entered and accepted, the phone will be unlocked permanently. You can then insert any simcard from any other service provider and your cellphone should instantly pick-up the network. Sometimes you may have to modify certain settings on the phone (e-mail as well as other web related services) by pointing them to your new carrier.