Not exact matches
With a 10.1 -
inch (25.6 - centimeter)
screen, the Xoom is about the same
size as Apple's iPad, which hit stores in April and has other
leading technology companies around the world scrambling to catch up.
At 4.7 -
inches in
size, the 1280 x 768p WXGA IPS Google Nexus 4
screen is just 0.1 -
inches smaller than the market
leading Samsung Galaxy S3, but no less visually impressive.
Among competing, full - blown 7 -
inch tablets, the latest models from Acer, Samsung, Toshiba, and
leading tablet makers use Google's Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating system, which was optimized for the larger
screen sizes of tablets.
Providing higher resolution and more
screen size in a smaller package than the
leading competitor, the first device in Canada to run on Android ™ 3.0 (Honeycomb) platform, Motorola XOOM Wi - Fi features a 1GHz - dual core processor and 1 GB of RAM, front - facing and rear - facing cameras, true multi-tasking functionality and the latest GoogleTM Mobile services on a 10.1
inch widescreen HD display.
This has
led to some news outlets considering this a confirmation of a tablet device - but it seems more likely it's something that's been lost in translation, as a tablet device can be anything from 3.5 - to 15 -
inch screen size, meaning it includes smartphones and doesn't automatically mean an iPad competitor.
Display resolution of «1876 x 1404» is class
leading & the 7.8
inch display is ideally
sized for all media Display
size actually provides «75 %» more real estate /
screen property than a 6» Kindle & the quality of the display is jest, drop - dead gorgeous.
The only other notable difference is that the smaller
size leads to a smaller
screen, down from 1.22
inches to 1.05
inches (although since both displays offer a 240 x 240 resolution, the Petite ends up looking sharper.)
The company previously resisted following the
lead of competing Android phone makers, namely Samsung, in releasing phones with
screens larger than 4
inches, let alone multiple
sizes of new phones in the same year.
Increasing the diagonal measurement of the iPad's display from 9.7
inches to 12.9
inches while maintaining the same 4:3 aspect ratio yields a substantial increase in display area of about 40 %,
leading us to believe that Apple will not simply scale up the existing iPad resolution to the larger
screen size.