CES 2011: Motorola reveals Xoom Android tablet

We were expecting, and Motorola duly delivered. The company’s Android tablet is now official.

The Motorola Xoom will be a 10.1-inch tablet (that’s almost half-an-inch bigger than the iPad), and will run on Google’s forthcoming tablet-optimised OS, Honeycomb.

It’ll certainly pack a punch, too, running on the 1GHz Tegra 2 dual-core processor that will make any serious Android device released in 2011 fly.

The impressive specs continue, with a 1280 x 800 resolution that will deliver “console-like gaming”, a two-megapixel front-facing camera (the standard up to this point has been 1.3-megapixel) and a five-megapixel main snapper capable of 720p recording.

Also helping on the gaming front will be a gyroscope to complement the accelerometer, hopefully granting it an iPhone 4 level of tilty precision.

We should be seeing the first 3G and wi-fi units going on sale in “Q1 2011”.