Motorola’s sleek 10.1-inch Xoom
tablet is now available for pre-order in the UK.
Gadget website KingofGadgets.co.uk has started taking orders for the Android-powered
iPad rival, which is expected to be launched in Britain in the second quarter of the year.
Prices on the website start at £699.99, making it more quite an expensive piece of kit, especially considering the
Samsung Galaxy Tab is available online for just £350
Sim free .
The Xoom tablet has a superb 10.1-inch HD widescreen display, a powerful
dual core processor, 1GB RAM, 32GB onboard storage, onboard 3G, a HDMI port, support for
Adobe Flash Player and two cameras - a rear-facing 5 megapixel
camera with flash that captures video in 720p HD and a front-facing 2 megapixel camera designed for video calling.
It is also the world's first device to run
Android 3.0 Honeycomb, Google's powerful operating system designed specifically for
tablets .
Several UK retailers including the Carphone Warehouse, PC World and Best Buy have announced that they will offer the
Motorola Xoom once it officially goes on sale.
Meanwhile, latest reports suggest that HP's long-awaited TouchPad tablet could arrive in the UK around the same time as the Xoom, with sources citing an April release date for the WebOS-based device.