The next generation of Apple's tablet PC, iPad 2 are waited by the rest of the world.
Unveiled on March 2, the iPad 2 features shows a lot of over its older brethren. However, it remains to be seen if these improvements will be enough to keep Apple's share of the tablet PC market intact. Back in 2010, the first iPad was a major success with a global sales around 14.8 million items. The original iPad was so successful with the estimated of 75% of the tablet PC market are owned by Apple.
The iPad's commercial success, however, has attracted many competitors. With so many companies joining the tablet bandwagon and building their own iPad killer version, many are eager to see how the iPad 2 fares against the improving competition.
In this review we make a head-to-head comparison between iPad 2 and what many consider its strongest competitor to date, the Motorola Xoom.
1. Display
The iPad 2 has the same 9.7-inch backlit-LED IPS display that can be found in iPad 1 which is wonderful because it still is the best in its class.
The Xoom has a standard 10.1-inch TFT display. Great for surfing the web and watching movies but does not offer the types of viewing angles we are accustomed to in the iPad.
Advantage -Apple iPad 2
2. Design and Build
When it comes to design and build quality you know Apple does not disappoint. iPad 2 looks and feel are simply amazing. The iPad 2 perhaps are 15 percent lighter and 33 percent thinner than the original iPad, however the tablet are still build with top of the line materials.
Because of it's slimmer design, iPad 2 now are more comfortable to handle with the same solid feel.
The Motorola Xoom is just as well constructed. The chassis is solid. It does however feel bulkier and heavier than the slim-built iPad 2.
It is safe to say Apple tablet win this round.
Advantage - Apple iPad 2
3. Connectivity
The Apple iPad 2 comes with Wi-Fi a,b,g & n, and Bluetooth 2.1 capabilities with A2DP and EDR. It als has HDMI-output. However, it does not have a card reader, USB Port and MicroSD slot.
The Motorola Xoom has the same capabilities as the iPad 2's but none of its shortcomings. The Xoom has MicroSD support, Micro USB port, HDMI-out, Wi-Fi a,b,g & n (dual-band) and Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and EDR.
Advantage - Motorola Xoom
4. Processor
The iPad 2 is fitted with Apple's dual-core 1GHz A5 chip, a big improvement from the previous iPad. The A5 chip claimed to be 10 times better graphical performance than the old iPad. We don't know for sure on the RAM size for the iPad 2, but 512MB is a huge possibility.
Motorola Xoom is equipped with a 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 CPU. At 1GB of RAM, this chip along with the Android 3.0 OS and make the tablet to multi task effortlessly.
Advantage - Xoom
5. Camera
One of the biggest drawbacks of the older iPad was the lack of a camera. Now iPad 2 has two cameras. The iPad 2's dual cameras are a 0.7-megapixel main camera with 720P movie capture capability, and a secondary VGA camera that works fine if you want to use it for video calls.
In this category, Xoom has an upper hand. With an impressive 5-megapixel main camera and are equipped with dual-LED flash and autofocus and a secondary 2-megapixel camera for video conferencing, the Xoom is definitely the winner here.
Advantage - Motorola Xoom
6. Operating System
The iPad 2 is equipped with the new iOs 4.3 which features better browser and web application performance.
The Motorola Xoom comes with the Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" OS which boosts multi-tasking capabilities and has made it more user-friendly.
We feel that the Honeycomb OS gives the Xoom an advantage. The iOs 4.3 feels like its just a minor tune-up for Apple.
Advantage - Motorola Xoom
7. Price
Well the price of each tablet are interesting. The Apple iPad 2 has an introductory price of $499 for its base Wi-Fi unit.
The Motorola Xoom's introductory price is $599 for its Wi-Fi only base unit.The iPad 2 price are not expected by the other competitors.
Advantage: Apple iPad 2
Verdict: Out of 7 categories, the Motorola Xoom bested the Apple iPad 2 in 4. Feature and function wise the Xoom is the better tablet. However, Apple shows a great pricing strategy, we would not be surprised that the iPad 2 will remain to be the best seller in tablet PC market (yet again).
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