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Motorola Xoom and Apple iPad are the two most popular tablets in the mobile industry today. These tablets are much talked and created so much hype in the market on its its release especially with Apple iPad 2. Apple iPad 2 is the successor version to their original first tablet iPad. Apple has introduced iPad 2 with various improvements like fast processor, inclusion of camera, the operating system and the inclusion of FaceTime application. Apple iPad 2 is even considered to be the lighter, thinner and faster tablet then iPad. Here, we’re going to compare iPad 2 with Motorola Xoom tablet which is going to release in the coming next week or so. The Motorola Xoom is the toughest competitor to Apple iPad 2.

There are top 10 reasons to look why Motorola Xoom is superior than that of Apple iPad 2.

1. Operating System:
The Motorola Xoom runs on Google’s Android v3.0 HoneyComb OS which is specifically designed for tablets. While on the other hand, Apple iPad 2 comes with an upgraded iOS operating system. It runs on iOS 4. In comparisons, the Honeycomb OS is far much better than iOS as it handles notifications, great multi-tasking and faster app switching capability. The main feature of iOS is that it has got faster Safari browser, enhancements to AirPlay and the new iTunes with sharing feature.

2. Display:
The Motorola Xoom flaunts its wide 10.1 inches TFT capacitive touchscreen with a support for 16M colors. It is having resolution of 800 x 1280 pixels with a wide-screen ratio of 16:9 so that the display fits better. While, the Apple iPad 2 has got 9.7 inches display and got lesser resolution of 768 x 1024 pixels. The iPad 2 has also got lesser wide-screen of 1:1.33.

3. 4G Connectivity:
The Apple iPad 2 does not support 4G connectivity. While, the Motorola Xoom is upgradable to 4G connectivity. Motorola will upgrade to 4G in free of cost and it will available from second quarter of this year.

4. Camera:
The Motorola Xoom comes equipped with amazing 5MP rear facing camera and a 2MP front facing camera with a support for video calling. While, Apple iPad 2 comes with just 0.7MP rear facing camera and a front facing VGA camera.

5. Browser:
The Motorola Xoom features Chrome browser provides tabbed browsing. Like the PC or MAC version, a single box (address bar) works as search box and for typing in URL. While, the Safari browser in Apple iPad 2 does not do like this.

6. Flash:
The Motorola Xoom comes with Adobe Flash player 10.1 While, Apple iPad 2 does not have Flash player.

7. Storage:
The Motorola Xoom comes with an internal memory with three variants – 16GB/32GB/64GB and 1GB RAM. It is powered by 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 AP20H Dual Core processor. While, the Apple iPad 2 has also comes with three variants but with less RAM of 512MB. Also iPad 2 has got lesser processing speed with 900Mhz.

8. External Slots:
Motorola Xoom comes with microSD card slot for memory expansion of up to 32GB and has also HDMI port. While, Apple iPad 2 does not contain any of them.

9. Audio/Video Player support:
The Motorola Xoom supports both audio and video player and can support mainly all types of formats like MP3/WAV/WMA/AAC+ and MP4/WMV/H.263/H.264. It also features stereo speakers. While, the Apple iPad 2 only supports MP4/MP3/WAV/AAC and does not have stereo speakers.

10. Downloading Freedom:
Apple has got much more apps in its online market than Android market. But users can have access to only fewer applications. While, Android users can access to many apps and download it from Android Market.

The above mentioned top 10 reasons makes you purchase Motorola Xoom over Apple iPad 2. What are you going to prefer? Motorola Xoom or Apple iPad 2? Please let us know which one you would go for? We would to hear from you. So, kindly leave your views, reviews in the below section.

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