Google vice president showed the future iPad rival from Motorola

At last these days in San Francisco show D: Dive into Mobile Google vice president Andy Rubin (Andy Rubin) if between times "light up" an unidentified tablet computer during the presentation time on it a new version of the Google service Maps. observers can not attend the event, not to pay attention to the gadget, and Ruby still had to share with a respectable audience some information about him.

It turned out that Rubin was carrying a 10-inch tablet computer from Motorola based on the Android operating system, and with its new version - Honeycomb, itself adapted for tablets. In this apparatus, while known as MotoPad, SoC-system used NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor-based architecture ARM Cortex A9 is 3G-modem. It is also expected and model that supports LTE-network, Verizon is now unfolding the cellular operator. Based on these data, as MotoPad performance can compete with the iPad 2 has, for example, RIM PlayBook. In the latter device also used a dual-core chip ARM Cortex A9, and the future of Apple tablet is not yet known, although the company obviously also move to a new processor architecture. It is worth noting that Gmail email client in Mail.app new gadget is similar to the iPad - a well, as the latter is extremely convenient.

It seems that the Internet company largely adopts the experience and Apple work policy, in particular, the unification of hardware and software of its products. This explains the existence of the tablet Google, which performs the role of a reference for programmers device companies so that they can feel and adapt to Android 3.0, so to speak, "live" equipment, rather than emulator.
[via Engadget]