Camera, Battery Life, Final Thoughts

Photographic camera

Motorola'south Xyboard tablets come equipped with 5 megapixel rear-facing cameras and 1.iii megapixel, fixed-focus forrad-facing cameras. The 5 megapixel cameras have an LED flash, and all of the cameras, front-facing included, can record 720p Hard disk video. That'southward pretty dainty. Image quality both with and without flash is mostly good for a tablet, though the eight.2's smaller stature makes it far easier to snap crisp shots. The 10.1's massive size makes shooting a photo something like walking around while holding a framed family portrait in front end of you. It'southward not easy to practice, and it just looks foolish.

Music

The Motorola Droid Xyboard 10.1 and eight.2 utilise Google'due south Honeycomb music app, the one that is integrated with its cloud-based Google Music service. Users can play locally stored tracks also every bit cloud-based ones, and easily create playlists or view their music organized past artist, album, vocal, genre, and "new and recent." Each choice presents music in a dissimilar view, and merely the "new and recent" view offers the cool 3D rendered scrolling flow of album art for some reason. Audio output is practiced through 3.5mm headphones (non included), and reasonable through the built-in speakers found on the tablets.

Battery

Motorola equipped its ten.1-inch Xyboard tablet with a large 7000mAh battery, which is 75% larger than the 3960mAh battery found in the 8.two model. The ten.1 is rated for 10 hours of Wi-Fi spider web browsing (8 over LTE), while the eight.2 is rated 6 hours of Wi-Fi browsing (iv.eight over LTE). Motorola rates the devices as beingness practiced for 33 days (x.ane) and 19 days (8.2) of standby bombardment life. My use with both devices seems to suggest that these number are roughly accurate (apart from standby time, maybe), and more or less on par with similar competing devices.

Final Thoughts

People that read my reviews frequently might accept noticed near my preference for smaller tablets over larger ones. I merely find a x.ane-inch tablet unwieldy, even if it is relatively light. Equally such, I greatly prefer the cheaper eight.two-inch Droid Xyboard over the 10.1-inch model. Both are very prissy, or at least as much and so as Android Honeycomb allows, and they offer blazing LTE information speeds.

Cost and required monthly data contracts will be their undoing though. In a globe where Apple's iPad 2 is available for the same price as the Xyboard 10.1 and Amazon is offering a solid seven-inch Android tablet for less than half the cost of the 8.2, Motorola volition exist fighting uphill battles. Even if they are pretty nice machines.

Pros: Blazing 4G LTE speeds, attractive design, comfortable, dual 720p cameras.

Cons: Typical Android Honeycomb Bone problems, expensive on-contract pricing. No microSD carte du jour slot.