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A Motorola Mobility introduced today in São Paulo two new additions to its team of Gadgets: the smartphones Motorola Atrix and tablets Xoom.
Both run system versions Android, with the tablet being the first device to run the version Android 3.0.
The company begins its speech by presenting the market numbers for smartphones, tablets and for the system Android. According to her, we are already in an era where mobile devices are the center of our lives.
The proposal of Motorola with its new devices is to show that it is back and in step with the market mobile devices. The Gadgets presented today show that, at least in of the “power” of their devices, they are on the right track.
The first, smartphones Motorola Atrix, is named by the company as “the most powerful in the world”. Among its features, we highlight the webtop and its optional accessory, the lapdock.
Webtop: using the multimedia dock that comes with the smartphone, you can make use of all its functions on any TV with an HDMI input. The dock even allows connection with a keyboard and mouse (USB).
lapdock: is the famous accessory that transforms your Atrix on a laptop. It really does what it promised, as it was possible to test. Unfortunately, the Lapdock is a separately sold accessory.
Other details you can check in our post about the first impressions, written by the author Diogo.
After the presentation of Atrix, it's time for the company's first tablet, the Motorola Xoom. Here, finally, is a tablets to compete with the iPad (and iPad 2, of course).
Right off the bat, we were already surprised by the speed and quality of transitions between screens (thanks to its dual-core processor). The system Android Honeycomb 3.0 still has a lot to improve, but it has already demonstrated itself as a competitor with the capacity to unseat the operating system to tablets da Apple .
See the features of Motorola Xoom in this post.
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Here are some important answers to questions asked by of the press:
1. Price and Availability: Both will be on the market in the next 3 weeks. O Xoom your pre-sale starts today for £ 1.899.00. already the Atrix will have its price defined by the operators, and will be sold in all of them. Its retail price is £ 1.999,00.
2. Content: Motorola informs that it is working to generate local and exclusive content, such as newspapers, books and magazines adapted to the tablets. Folha de São Paulo, Saraiva Bookstores e April Publisher, for example, are already partners in the development of applications and content for the Xoom.
3. Domestic production: The company's intention is to produce 100% of the tablets sold in Brazil in national territory, in its factory in Jaguariúna.
4. OS Updates: o Atrix will be updated to version Gingerbread within the next few months. Other smartphones like Motorola Defy will also be updated soon. But, of course, company representatives did not want to set a more precise date.
5. Tax: depending on the decision on the tax cut related to Tablets, being studied by the government, the Motorola Xoom will receive a considerable reduction in its price. We will confirm this point in the coming months.
