After a surprise from Andy Rubin at D:Dive Into Mobile, a tease from Motorola themselves, and many rumors surrounding it, the Honeycomb powered Motorola Xoom is finally official. Announced today at CES, the Xoom will pack a dual-core 1GHz Tegra II processor, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, and vanilla Android 3.0. The Xoom eschews the recent trend of 7-inch displays on tablets, and instead opts for a 10.1-inch 1280x800 (16:10) (gorilla glass) display, which should complement the 720P video playback capabilities nicely.

Along with an amazing screen, the Xoom has both a rear 5MP camera with LED flash, HD video-recording, and digital zoom; and a front-facing camera for video conferencing on Google Talk for tablets. Want to watch on another screen? The brand new Honeycomb tablet will also include HDMI and DLNA output at 1080p. It will be released with 3G and Wifi in the first quarter of this year, but the Xoom will also be fully upgradeable to 4G LTE in the second quarter, which means that the hardware is ready for next-generation mobile speeds. There is no word on pricing so we'll just have to wait for more. Here are two videos to whet your appetite till then:







For more information on the tablet, check out the official website here.

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