Difference Between ViewSonic ViewPad 10pro and Motorola Xoom

Dual OS tablet, alternative for a tablet PCViewSonic ViewPad 10pro is a dual OS tablet by ViewSonic officially announced in August 2011, while Motorola Xoom is an Android tablet released by Motorola in early 2011.Following is a review on the similarities and differences on the two devices.

ViewSonic ViewPad 10pro

ViewSonic ViewPad 10pro is a dual OS tablet by ViewSonic. The tablet was officially announced in August. ViewSonic ViewPad 10pro is available in two versions; windows Home premium with android and Windows 7 professional with Android. Android is virtualized inside windows and allows switching between the two operating systems with one click.

ViewSonic ViewPad comes with a 10.1” capacitive multi touch LCD screen with LED backlight. The screen has a resolution of 1024 x 600. The contrast ratio is 500:1. The screen real estate is perfect for web browsing, gaming, and photo editing as well as reading. The tablet is perhaps more meant for landscape use. It is also possible to use it portrait view. The device reportedly has a G- sensor and a light sensor. The device has a 1.5 GHz Intel atom processor with 1 GB memory. The internal storage available is 16 GB, while storage can be increased with a micro SD card up to 32 GB.

ViewSonic ViewPad 10 pro comes with a 1.3 mega pixel front facing camera and a rear facing camera is not available. A 3.5 mm audio jack is also available with a full size USB port, mini HDMI port and a micro SD card slot. ViewSonic ViewPad comes with stereo speakers and an integrated microphone. These features make entertainment and video calling possible without much hassle.

Since Windows 7 is pre installed with ViewSonic ViewPad 10 pro users will have no trouble using the office applications such as word, PDF, excel spread sheets etc. Android will give access to all the applications available in the Android market and this will benefit the user more in making maximum use of all other productivity applications as well.

ViewSonic ViewPad 10pro is also compatible with an interactive Wi-Fi projector from ViewSonic. This allows interacting with any tablet device in a meeting room. As a result ViewSonic ViewPad 10pro can be used in a teaching environment successfully, to increase student engagement.

ViewSonic ViewPad 10pro is placed in the market as a more economical alternative for a tablet PC, while obtaining more benefits of a dual OS tablet.

Motorola Xoom

Motorola Xoom is the first Android Honeycomb tablet released by Motorola in early 2011. Motorola Xoom tablet was initially released to the market with Honeycomb (Android 3.0) installed. The Wi-Fi version as well as the Verizon branded versions of the tablet support Android 3.1, making Motorola Xoom one of the very first tablets to run Android 3.1.

Motorola Xoom boasts a 10.1 inch light responsive display with 1280 x 800 screen resolution. The Xoom has a multi touch screen, and a virtual keypad is available in Portrait and landscape mode. The Xoom is designed more for landscape mode use. However, both landscape and portrait modes are supported. The screen is impressively responsive. Input can be given as voice commands as well. In addition to all above, Motorola Xoom includes a compass, a gyroscope (to calculate orientation and proximity), a magnetometer (measure strength and direction of magnetic field), a 3 axis accelerometer, a light sensor, and a barometer. Motorola Xoom has a 1 GB RAM and 32 GB internal storage and 1 GHz dual core processor.

With Android 3.0 on board Motorola Xoom provide 5 customizable home screens. All these home screens can be navigated with a touch of a finger, and shortcuts and widgets can be added and removed. Unlike earlier versions of Android, the battery indicator, clock, signal strength indicator and notifications are at the very bottom of the screen. All applications can be accessed using the newly introduced icon at the top right hand corner of the home screen.

Honeycomb in Motorola Xoom also includes productivity applications such as calendar, calculator, clock and etc. many applications can be downloaded from Android market place as well. QuickOffice Viewer also comes installed with Motorola Xoom allowing users to view documents, presentations and spreadsheets.

A completely re-designed Gmail client is available with Motorola Xoom. The interface is loaded with many UI components, and it’s far from simple. However, users can also configure Email accounts based on POP, IMAP. Google talk is available as the instant messaging application for Motorola Xoom. Though, the video quality of the Google talk video chat is not of the best quality, the traffic is well managed.

Motorola Xoom includes the Music application redesigned for Honeycomb. The interface is aligned with the 3D feel of the android version. Music can be categorized by artist and album. Navigation through albums is easy and very interactive.

Motorola Xoom supports up to 720p video play back. The tablet reports an average 9 hour battery life, while looping a video and browsing web. A native YouTube application is also available with Motorola Xoom. A 3D effect with a wall of videos is presented to users. Android Honeycomb finally presents video editing software named “Movie Studio”. Though, many are not very impressed with the performance of the software it was a much needed addition to the tablet OS. Motorola Xoom has a 5 mega pixel camera with an LED flash at the back of the device. The camera gives good quality images and video. The front facing 2 mega pixel camera can be used as a web cam and gives standard quality images for its specifications. Adobe Flash player 10 comes installed with Android.

The web browser available with Motorola Xoom is reportedly good in performance. It allows tabbed browsing, chrome bookmark sync and incognito mode. Web pages will be loaded and quickly and efficiently. But there will be occasions the browser will be recognized as an Android Phone.

What is the difference between ViewSonic ViewPad 10pro and Motorola Xoom?

ViewSonic ViewPad 10pro is a dual OS tablet by ViewSonic officially announced in August 2011. Motorola Xoom is an Android tablet released by Motorola in early 2011. ViewSonic ViewPad 10pro is available in two versions; windows Home premium with android and Windows 7 professional with Android. Android is virtualized inside windows, and allows switching between the two operating systems with one click. Motorola Xoom tablet was initially released to the market with Honeycomb (Android 3.0) installed and later upgraded to Androind 3.1. ViewSonic ViewPad comes with a 10.1” capacitive multi touch screen LCD screen with LED backlight. The screen has a resolution of 1024 x 600. Motorola Xoom boasts a 10.1 inch light responsive display with 1280 x 800 screen resolution. The Xoom has a multi touch screen, and a virtual keypad is available in Portrait and landscape mode. ViewSonic ViewPad 10pro has a 1.5 GHz Intel atom processor with 1 GB memory. The internal storage available is 16 GB while storage can be increased with a micro SD card up to 32 GB. Motorola Xoom has a 1 GB RAM and 32 GB internal storage and 1 GHz dual core processor. Motorola Xoom has a 5 mega pixel camera with an LED flash at the back of the device. The front facing 2 mega pixel camera can be used as a web cam and gives standard quality images for its specifications. ViewSonic ViewPad 10pro is also compatible with an interactive Wi-Fi projector from ViewSonic such a facility is not available with Motorola Xoom. Motorola Xoom includes a compass, a gyroscope (to calculate orientation and proximity), a magnetometer (measure strength and direction of magnetic field), a 3 axis accelerometer, a light sensor and a barometer in comparison ViewSonic ViewPad 10pro has a G- sensor and a light sensor only. In terms of battery life Motorola Xoom reportedly has an average 9 hour battery life, while ViewSonic ViewPad 10pro has an average 4 hours battery life.