A few online retailers such as the Flipkart.com and the Koovs have slashed the prices of the the Motorola XOOM tablets by as much as Rs 10,000. Folks at The Mobile Indian first reported that Wi-Fi only 32GB version of the XOOM is now available at Koovs for Rs 21,500 and the 32GB (Wi-Fi+3G) version is up for an order at just Rs 25,000. Even Flipkart.com is now selling the 32GB (Wi-Fi+3G) version at Rs 26,500. We are expecting an official statement from Motorola any time soon regarding the price reduction.Googl...

Motorola on Thursday announced its new XOOM 2 and XOOM 2 Media Edition tablets. The XOOM 2 runs Android 3.2 Honeycomb and is equipped with a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, a 10.1-inch display, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, a 5-megapixel camera and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera for video chat. Motorola said the display, which has a special “splashguard” for added protection, is brighter and more vibrant than the screen used on the original XOOM. Motorola also pre-loaded the XOOM 2 with several en...

Motorola may have big plans for the holiday season, at least according to a few new leaks from This is my next. Official press shots of the AT&T ATRIX 2 and its brand new Laptop Dock 100 accessory were spilled recently, as were details on an unannounced Motorola Spyder smartphone and two models of the XOOM 2 tablet. Last week we published an exclusive first look at the ATRIX 2 and now several of the phone’s specs have supposedly been confirmed. It is equipped with a 4.3-inch display with a qHD resol...

Rarely does a week go when we don’t report about a new Android tablet being launched and it is a bloodbath out there when it comes to prices. Be it Motorola slashing prices of its XOOM to match that of Samsung’s latest Galaxy Tab 750 to the slew of cheap Android tablets from brands like iBall, Beetel and others, which has sparked a new price war that will only bring down prices further. However, Apple’s iPad 2 still commands the same price as when it was launched earlier this year and it sti...

Motorola Mobility on Thursday released its second quarter 2011 earnings and despite recent analyst downgrades, the company recorded a strong quarter. Motorola posted net revenues of $3.3 billion, up 28% from the same time period last year. In addition, mobile device revenues were $2.4 billion, up 41% from the second quarter of 2010. Motorola Mobility shipped a total of 11 million devices, including 4.4 million smartphones and 440,000 units of its XOOM Android tablet. That’s a large improvement over the ...

As promised, Motorola has released its Xoom tablet in the Indian market. The tablet, which was officially the first to run Android 3.0 (Honeycomb, the flavour of Android Google had specially brewed for tablets), arrives in two variants – a Wi-Fi one for Rs 32,990 (MRP: Rs 34,490) and a 3G one for Rs 39,990 (MRP: Rs 41,490). Both have 32 GB storage (no other storage variants, as of now), pack in a powerful 1 GHz dual core processor, 1 GB RAM, 10.1 inch displays, and battery lives that are expected to ran...

Motorola will launch its Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) running tablet, the XOOM, in India this month. The XOOM features a 10.1-inch 1280×800 pixel display, a 1GHz dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM. It has a 5.0 MP rear camera and a 2.0 MP front-facing camera for video chatting over Google Talk. It also features a built-in gyroscope, barometer, e-compass, accelerometer and adaptive lighting. The tablet supports up to 10 hours of video playback and Moto claims that it charges in half the time of competitive tab...

Motorola on Wednesday announced that the Android 3.1 Honeycomb update revealed by Google on Tuesday at its Google I/O 2011 conference will become available on the Motorola XOOM “within the next several weeks.” Google announced that the Verizon Wireless’ XOOM would be the first device to get the update, but there was some confusion surrounding when the new Honeycomb build might become available to devices. Motorola has now clarified that Android 3.1 will become available in the next few weeks...

In case you haven’t heard, Android is kind of a big deal. Some research firms say it’s already the world’s top smartphone operating system, having recently passed Symbian’s quarterly sales pace for the first time, and just about every firm on the planet is predicting that Android’s market share will continue to grow for the foreseeable future. And it’s not just hot air — Google on Thursday during its first-quarter earnings call revealed that daily Android activations ha...

Adobe Flash support was noticeably absent from the Motorola XOOM at launch, though it was because Adobe wanted to ship Flash 10.2 as opposed to 10.1, and that’s all finally in the past. Starting today, Adobe Flash 10.2 will be available in the Android market for most Android devices — Froyo, Gingerbread and Honeycomb. It supports dual-core CPU smartphones, increased battery life performance, and will even support full 720p Flash playback in the general availability release due “within weeks.R...

Less than a week after it announced that the price of the original iPad would be slashed from $499 (for the 16GB, Wi-Fi only version) to $399, Apple has cut the prices of the iPad in India. This is significant because the tablet hit the country officially barely a month ago. While previously the iPad’s pricing in India had started from Rs 27,990, it now has come down to Rs 24,500, a fall of about 12.47%,  bringing it well below the Rs 25,000 barrier and actually bang into high-end smartphone and netboo...