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Originally Posted by Willravel
The front camera is intended for Face Time video calling, so it doesn't need to be HD. Whether on Verizon or AT&T, you don't have enough bandwidth for HD video conferencing. The rear camera shoots 720p video, likely using the same camera as the iPhone 4, which is a very, very good camera. As for the specs for the Xoom vs. the iPad 2, the iPad is lighter, it's better looking, it has a lot more applications, and it's second generation, which likely means that there are less bugs to work out. They tie on processor power, (probably) RAM, cell connection, wifi, bluetooth, accelerometer, gyro, battery, and rear camera. Xoom has a bigger resolution, but considering it has the same processor and I believe graphics, that's a trade-off. So no, on specs, the Xoom really isn't better or worse than the iPad 2 in any meaningful way. |
Unless its changed recently, you can't use facetime unless its over wifi. The xooms front camera is 2.0 megapixels. If the camera was 5 megapixels like the niphine they would have said so. Its not. On the same specs they could absolutely have a higher resolution...how is that a negative? 9 times the graphic processing power and twice the processing power? If you are saying that can't handle a higher reslution you are dreaming. It could handle double the current resolution just fine. They are intentionally making it a minor upgrade so that the ipad 3 will be a complete revision.
Aesthetically the xoom and ipad 2 are equal imo.
And ASU, they have foldable keyboard cases and clamshell netbook style cases for the ipad. They don't seem to be very good though. The best seems like the one from zagg.com
Where are you getting that the ipad 2 has the same ram as the xoom? It has not been detailed, which again makes me think its going to be the same 256MBs just like the original. That's nowhere near the xooms 1GB.