Is Motorola working on a new, high-resolution tablet?
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What is also rumored about the said Motorola tablet is that its screen will have a 4:3 aspect ratio – same as the iPad 2 and the HP TouchPad. Besides that, the device is said to be significantly slimmer and lighter than the Motorola XOOM meaning that the rumored tablet might also have the potential to take the title of “thinnest tablet on the market” away from the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. No further hardware specs have been mentioned by the sources of the rumor, but there is a slight chance that an NVIDIA Tegra 3 chipset will be humming under the tablet's hood and Android Ice Cream Sandwich will be running the show.
So, how does the idea of having such a high-resolution display on a tablet sound to you? Would you find it useful or you think that it wouldn't make a difference? Feel free to share your thoughts with us in the comments below.
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1. shifterracer (unregistered) posted on 13 Jul 2011, 08:02 1 1
I think they should be working on fixing the problems with the original xoom. Last time i checked (5 minutes ago) my xoom still could not access the SD slot and it was still chugging along at 3G speeds (yes i have 4G in my area)! Oh and most the apps crash all the time...grrrr!
4. protozeloz posted on 13 Jul 2011, 08:34 0 0
then I guess this may be good news:
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/07/12/android-3-2-update-for-xoom-will-finally-add-sd-card-support/
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/07/12/4g-lte-upgrade-for-motorola-xoom-receives-fcc-approval/
9. taco50 posted on 13 Jul 2011, 11:47 3 6
sounds like you're having the typical android experience
27. derp (unregistered) posted on 14 Jul 2011, 21:30 0 1
it sure does.
heres some snippets of a sony android device that will be released soon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyVh1_vWYQ
2. Sniggly posted on 13 Jul 2011, 08:14 3 1
Oh yes. Come to me, sexy baby. Of course, if Motorola does go with the wider aspect ratio, we'll see plenty of iFanboys claiming "copycat!"- because as you all know, Apple owns an entire aspect ratio.
8. SuperAndroidEvo posted on 13 Jul 2011, 11:19 1 1
Sniggly the minute this Motorola tablet comes out I am so there with you! This sounds like the perfect tablet I have been waiting for. I almost got the original Xoom but I am so glad I didn't. I really don't care what the iSheep say, their iPad 2 is about to get eaten alive. Plus they will always find some reason to bash Android anyway! lol An Android Ice Cream Sandwich, 2048 by 1536 pixels, Tegra 3 & the thinnest (maybe) tablet is EXACTLY what you say SEXY. So dude I am right behind you on release day! lol
3. Thump3rDX17 posted on 13 Jul 2011, 08:25 0 0
sounds to me like the Tablet in the Verizon ad that everyone became so interested in.
5. PhoneLuver posted on 13 Jul 2011, 09:01 1 0
Let's hope they reduce the bezel as well! The current iPad and Xoom's bezels are way too big! They should make the screen larger so that you can enjoy a movie it.
6. tichtech posted on 13 Jul 2011, 10:13 0 0
I hope it's not "high resolution" like the DX2 or the D3. Yes those pentile screens like decent from farther away, but who holds their phone at arms length to use it?
7. ArmageddonX posted on 13 Jul 2011, 10:55 0 0
I love the 4:3 on the Tablets. I would love that on an Android tablet.
10. 530gemini posted on 13 Jul 2011, 12:32 0 0
I wonder how will this affect apps that don't support such high res screens? There will be several android tablets in the market with different screen resolutions. How will app developers for android handle this?
11. protozeloz posted on 13 Jul 2011, 12:47 0 0
probably there will be workarounds as is also known that some devices have different resolutions and apps work fine on them, will have to see what happens but probably there will be a fix to that....
14. 530gemini posted on 13 Jul 2011, 13:41 0 0
@Protozeloz. Apps will definitely work just fine. But that's not my question. My question was, will developers bother developing apps to support such a high resolution for one android tablet when the rest of the android tablets don't have such a high resolution? Meaning, this moto tab will have retina display on its specheet, but apps won't be in retina display anyway. Just like the bunch of 4g android phones, that have 4g on its specsheet, yet only works with 3g because 4g is not available yet in a lot of areas.
16. protozeloz posted on 13 Jul 2011, 14:02 0 0
ok, sorry I misunderstood your question, as far as rumors go the new android devices for Ice cream sandwich will have a rather hight resolution, those are usually the ones devs go for, probably (as in I have no clue) they will get dev kits that will include system check up (apps already can tell what phone you use) so it may not be so hard for them to support both a hight and low resolution on the same app by asking what phone its installed on and using the right settings, its a good Idea that the resolution is increased before the market gets more apps, that way newly introduced apps will only need to be worked once
12. Sniggly posted on 13 Jul 2011, 12:48 1 1
The same way PC developers handle the different specs of computer hardware: a magic function called SETTINGS.
13. 530gemini posted on 13 Jul 2011, 13:33 0 1
You mean just like android devices rushing in to 4G phones to attract customers into thinking that 4G signal is everywhere and then customers end up getting 3G anyway? So this tablet will have retina display on its specsheet, yet apps won't be supporting that resolution anyway? Oh ok.
And btw sniggly. Are you trying to say that if an app does not support retina display, that a user can go to settings and that app will magically be upgraded to retina display? Wow. That's awesome.
17. Sniggly posted on 13 Jul 2011, 14:11 1 1
No, I was saying exactly the opposite, dips**t. If someone has hardware that doesn't support the highest settings on the app (game mainly) they can just downgrade the graphics settings. However, Google is also asserting tighter control over fragmentation anyway, and Androidsupport Market now includes cues regarding which phones work best with apps.
19. 530gemini posted on 13 Jul 2011, 15:00 1 3
Nah, still much simpler and much more uniformed and standardized with iOS ;)
22. jbash posted on 13 Jul 2011, 18:46 1 2
@sniggly: that was unnessisary he was just asking a simple question and you flame him. not once did he bash android or praise iOS. dont go acting like a douche when somebody doesnt deserve it.
24. protozeloz posted on 13 Jul 2011, 20:05 0 0
Sorry, thumbed you down meant to thumb you up :(
