Difference Between HTC Jetstream and Motorola Xoom

HTC Jetstream (Puccini) is an Android tablet by HTC officially announced on August 2011 it will be officially released on 4th September 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.

HTC Jetstream

HTC Jetstream is an Android tablet by HTC officially announced on August 2011. The device is one of the first tablet devices compatible with LTE network. This tablet is also known as the much speculated HTC Puccini.

The tablet is 9.87” long and has 7” of width. HTC Jetstream will be available in Black color. The device is also 0.51” thick and weighs 709 g. The tablet is average in weight for a 10.1” tablet, but quite thick. HTC Jetstream has a 10.1” capacitive touch screen with WXGA (1280 x 768 pixels) resolution. The screen is multi touch, also has Accelerometer and Light sensor. The device will be available with a digital pen called HTC Scribe. A digital pen was also included in the 7” HTC Android tablet ‘HTC Flyer”, and this will be available for HTC Jetstream free of charge for a limited time, after the official release.

HTC Jetstream will be running on a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor. Details on memory and internal storage are not yet available. However, the device allows extending storage up to 32 GB by a micro SD card. HTC Jetstream (a.k.a Puccini) will be one of the first tablet devices supporting AT & T’s true 4G network (LTE 700/AWS) with LTE speed. The device will also support HSPA, Wi-Fi connectivity as well as Bluetooth. The device also has USB connectivity as well.

HTC Jetstream has an 8 mega pixel rear facing camera with Dual LED flash and auto focus. The rear facing camera is also capable of video capture. A 1.3 mega pixel camera is also available as a front facing camera, which can be used for video conferencing.

HTC Jetstream is powered by Android 3.1. This is the first tablet by HTC with Honeycomb and includes resizable widgets plus improved multi-tasking, browsing, notifications, and customization. HTC also testing the HTC Sense UX user experience for the first time on Honeycomb. The tablet is reportedly pre loaded with many social networking applications such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Friendstream. Googleapplications such as Google search, Gtalk and Gmail will also be available. A YouTube client and Picasa integration is also available on the new HTC Jetstream. It also supports Adobe flash player for a rich web browsing experience. Additional applications for HTC Jetstream can be downloaded from the Android Market place.

HTC Jetstream also includes a 7300 mAh battery, which is a decent capacity for a tablet.

This latest 10” tablet by HTC is priced at $ 700 for a two year data plan by AT & T. Postpaid tablet customers of AT&T also have the option for a new $35, 3 GB monthly data plan with the two-year contract.

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 HTC Jetstream and Motorola Xoom?

HTC Jetstream is an Android tablet by HTC officially announced on August 2011. Motorola Xoom is the first Android Honeycomb tablet released by Motorola in early 2011. HTC Jetstream is one of the first tablet devices compatible with LTE network, while in Motorola Xoom LTE connectivity is not available by default but it’s upgradable.

HTC Jetstream has a 10.1” capacitive touch screen with WXGA (1280 x 768 pixels) resolution, while Motorola Xoom also has a 10.1 inch light responsive display with 1280 x 800 screen resolution. Both screens are multi touch and include Accelerometer for auto rotate. HTC Jetstream is 0.51” thick, while Motorola Xoom is also 0.5”. There for in terms of thickness both devices are more or less similar. Between the two devices Motorola Xoom remains the heavier device at 730 g, while HTC Jetstream is only 709 g. Both devices are designed to be used in the landscape mode, but supports portrait as well. HTC Jetstream will be running on a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, and Motorola Xoom has a 1 GHz dual core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor. Among the two devices HTC Jetstream seems to have better processing power. Details of HTC Jetstream on memory and internal storage are not yet available. However, Motorola Xoom is available in 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB versions with 1 GB RAM. Both devices allow extending storage by 32 GB using a micro SD card. In terms of connectivity, both devices support LTE connectivity (upgradable in Motorola Xoom), HSPA, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. USB support is also common to both devices. HTC Jetstream has an 8 mega pixel rear facing camera, and Motorola Xoom has a 5 mega pixel camera, both with Dual LED flash and auto focus. HTC Jetstream has a 1.3 mega pixel front facing camera, while Motorola Xoom has a 2 mega pixel front facing camera. While HTC Jetstream grabs the trophy for the rear facing camera, Motorola Xoom wins with the front facing camera. HTC Jetstream is powered by Android 3.1, while Motorola Xoom was one of the first tablets released with Android 3.0 which was upgradable to Android 3.1 later. Applications for both devices can be downloaded from Android Market. Motorola Xoom was one of the first Android tablets to be released with a video editing application. Users will have to wait a little to figure out the availability of the same in HTC Jetstream. One can get their hands on a Motorola Xoom starting at 600 $, while HTC Jetstream is priced at $ 700 for a two year data plan by AT & T.