We’ve seen pretty compelling evidence that the recently-revealed Motorola Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Editon tablets will be sold by Verizon under the names Droid Xyboard 10.1 and Droid Xyboard 8.2, respectively. We actually didn’t believe that Verizon would go with such odd-sounding brandings, but sure enough, the carrier applied for trademark protection on “Xyboard” last month. Also, it seems that Samsung is not the only company keen on differentiating its tablets by appending screen sizes to their names.
So far the 1.2GHz, dual-core Honeycomb 3.2 tablets have only been confirmed for the UK and Ireland, but it should be no surprise that they’ll be arriving stateside on VZW, as that was Motorola’s launch partner for the first Xoom (which had been slated for release as the Droid Xoom before losing the “Droid” for unknown reasons). No word yet on when the Xyboards, which will almost surely be LTE-capable and possibly Ice Cream Sandwich-powered in their US iterations, are set to launch.
Bonus:
Stephen Schenck | Motorola's Droid RAZR for Verizon LTE is nearly upon us, and we had almost put together a complete picture of the phone's release plans. ...
Read Story
Stephen Schenck | Motorola's been dropping some extra-thick hints that it intends to reveal the Droid RAZR (aka Spyder, Droid HD) at an event with Verizon ...
Read Story
Anton D. Nagy | It's always a pleasure to see phones being launched before the rumored launch date even if it's just a couple of hours early. Verizon ...
Read Story
Stephen Schenck | If we're to believe the leaked release info we took a look at a week ago, Verizon should be preparing to launch the Motorola Droid ...
Read Story