Xoom 2 media edition sim card

It works nicely and overall the Xoom 2 sounds great through good quality headphones. The speakers are rather clever too, as there are three openings, two on the left or top and one on the right or bottom. This means that one wayward hand doesn't block all the sound. Volume is reasonable, although we found vibration across the back when at high volumes — but in all seriousness, are you going to use a tablet at full volume?

Probably not. You also get some of Motorola bundled business apps in the form of Citrix and various meeting apps. There is a front facing camera should you wish to take advantage of video calling and a second 5-megapixel camera on the rear, offering a flash and autofocus.

We don't put much stock in tablet cameras as we've yet to ever need to use one in anger, but it works well enough. The Xoom 2 ME also gives you p video capture, but this is slightly limited by the fixed-focus offering, so it isn't ever the sharpest video out there. Otherwise the experience is very much a stock Android Honeycomb experience and a good one at that. Flash videos play well, apps open and close with ease and the whole experience is on a par with other top Android tablets.

Sure, we bemoan the number of tablet-specific apps that you get on Android, but that's not Motorola's fault. It's a shame that this tablet doesn't arrive with Ice Cream Sandwich, but it is in the works, with Motorola's older Xoom tablet already receiving the update in some regions. We're also impressed with the battery.

The internal mAh unit doesn't last as long as larger models, but it has faired well in standby and offers about six hours of constant use. It will entertain you across the Atlantic, if not quite all the way to your destination. There is a lot to like about the Motorola Xoom 2 Media Edition.

Where we weren't sure that the larger Xoom 2 offered quite enough, there is something more exciting about the smaller version. The size means it is light and portable, but also it's easy to type with two thumbs - without the stretch of a larger tablet. We also like the fact that Motorola haven't messed around with it. Working For Notebookcheck. Allen Ngo - Lead Editor U. After graduating with a B. We played a few songs and videos through them and concluded that Motorola must have meant those claims ironically.

The speakers are about as good as you'd find on any tablet -- not particularly loud and very tinny. They'll just about do the trick for a YouTube clip, but when you want to settle down with music or a movie, plug your headphones in. The ME comes packing Android 3. Sadly, it's not the latest version of Android -- that honour goes to Ice Cream Sandwich ICS , which is designed to run on both phones and tablets.

Most companies tend to put their own skin on the Android operating system and Motorola is no exception. Motorola may update that tablet to ICS down the line, but Android updates are typically very slow to emerge and Moto has given no word of it yet so we're not holding our breath. Still, the Honeycomb experience on the tablet isn't at all bad. It's exactly the same as on the other Xoom 2, only slightly smaller. You get multiple home screens to swipe through and fill up with all the apps and live widgets you could want.

To place a widget, simply press and hold on a space to bring up a selection of available widgets. Poke one and it'll take up a certain number of squares. You can resize most widgets so they can dominate most of the screen. That's handy if you want to give your live Facebook widget more space to properly see all the updates flooding in from your mates. Any apps you don't want on your home screens are chucked into a menu showing grids of apps displayed over pages, similar to iOS home screens on the iPhone or iPad.

At the bottom of the screen are three navigation buttons that remain there regardless of what you're doing. As an Android device, you have access to the hundreds of thousands of apps in Android Market. Once you've synced your device to your Google account which will also simply sync with the email client , you can head over and download apps and widgets to your heart's content.

There are few tablet-specific apps, but apps written with Android phones in mind generally work perfectly well on a tablet. Inside that 8-inch frame you'll find a 1. We were fairly pleased with the performance of the regular Xoom 2 so we expected at least as good from the Media Edition.

To see how it compares to its rivals, we booted up the Quadrant benchmark test and were given a score of 2, On the CF-Bench test it achieved a score of 6, overall, which doesn't trouble the 10, offered by the Asus Transformer Prime , but that's a monstrously powerful quad-core beast. We're fairly pleased with the ME's skills, although we're not blown away by the scores.

Powered by a 1. Motorola has really tried hard to improve the XOOM 2 and as a result it weighs the whopping grams less than the old XOOM and is thinner by a nudge over 4mm.

The XOOM also comes with splash-guard technology, like the RAZR, which features a special coating to prevent incidental splashes from ruining the device.

However, in the camera department things are not so rosy.