now I promise you guys more tablet coverage over the next little while so
the first one that I'm going to be looking at besides my so unpopular iPad
2 unboxing is the Motorola Zoom now every tablet manufacturer on the Android
side has to find different ways to differentiate themselves because
remember it's all running on the same platform Apple has the hardware and the
software to different differentiate themselves from the rest of the market but these guys actually have to work a
little harder for it so the Motorola Zoom features the Tegra 2 processor so
that is a dual core processor with an advanced Graphics chip built in so this
is an NVIDIA uh an NVIDIA initiative
that they've worked very hard to bring to market now one of the ways that
Motorola differentiates themselves actually there's a couple different ways
one is battery life the zoom actually has exceptional battery life even from
my personal experience with it
and the other is the accessories so there's a ton of actual Motorolla
official accessories you don't have to rely on Cheo third parties to
necessarily make the accessories that go with it so I'm going to show you guys
the zoom up close as well as some select
accessories here including a Bluetooth
keyboard the protective portfolio case
the speaker HD dock these are all Motorola accessories as well as the
regular dock which I have it mounted on right now so let's have a closer look at
the unit itself it uses a dual core tager 2 as I mentioned before it has a
10.1 in that is a 1280x 800 resolution
screen so it is capable of displaying 720p content on it okay let's let's
check out what we got in terms of physical attributes here so we have our
power in this is an HDMI output we've
also got USB okay so moving around that appears to be a microphone on the other
side pretty much nothing very clean overall look you got a headphone Port as
well as a Micro SD slot now at the time of doing this video see there's your
micro SD placeholder the micro SD slot is not yet enabled but there is some
functionality that's coming very very
soon so of note is the fact that right
here on the back we have an 5 megapixel
as well as HD video camera so that is 5 megapixel still images and 720p video we
have a flash we also have stereo speakers and there is your power and
unlock key you got a little Motorola logo there okay on the other side we
find volume buttons now one of the things to note about this tablet is is
clearly meant to be used in portrait mode because you can tell this the
volume buttons are here the camera is here so when you compare that to the
iPad 2 for example which has the camera here and has your volume control here
that's meant to be used more in portrait mode because it's widescreen this is
what's going to deliver the most satisfying overall experience so one of
the things like I said that really sets the zoom apart is the fact that here
what's a good example why don't we use uh actually you know what no this one's
not as impressive let's do uh let's do this one right here we're going to run
rip tide on the HDMI output so it is as
simple as plugging this this is actually a Motorola HDMI cable into the although
it's standard compatible you can just buy one and then you can you can use it
into any monitor or television
and you can play games from your tablet
on the big screen whether it's a monitor or a
TV so here we are we're getting started uh you want to watch you want to
watch the screen there so so check this
out Tigra 2 allows us to play way way
more graphically intensive games than the uh the than the processor on the
iPad 2 or iPad 1 especially but even the iPad 2 so you can see here that this is
running very you know 3D lots of water effects and all that
good stuff it looks much more impressive actually when you put it up on the
bigger screen versus on the smaller screen just because you can really see
the amount of detail that goes into
it and that's we can cut off that clip
there so next let's have a quick look at the protective portfolio case which I
have not actually yet seen so it actually has like a
rubberized feel to the outside it would be very very difficult to accidentally
drop it The outsides are a hard plastic so that's going to protect you from a
small incidental fall but nothing major
okay how to use your Motorola Zoom portfolio comes with a little uh
instruction thing so you know what let me uh let me Mount this in and then I'll be back well took me only a couple
seconds to mount it you basically just snap the unit in and now I have it in
its carrying case this is actually a little bit smarter than Apple's carrying case now the device does not wake when
you open it but personally I have no problem pressing a button at the back to
turn on the device when I'm going to use it so I'm not too worried about that
particular functionality but it does do a few things that are kind of cool first
of all you unsnap the bottom half of it
just like that oh now it turned off okay maybe that would be a handy feature okay
and then you just go like this so you want to use it flat you fold it on
itself just like that hook it in there now you are able to use the tablet flat
you're able to access all of your buttons and you are ready to go okay
couple other things you want to use a high viewing angle so this would be
ideal for watching movies for example if you're putting it in front of you on a
plane on your uh tray in the upright
position or whatever the case may be sit and watch a movie or if you want to use
it in a more laptop esque kind of
environment then what you can do is you can go ahead and you can mount it like
that now all of a sudden you can type on it using a wireless keyboard and with
the upcoming firmware update to 3 .1 we are not only going to get that micro SD
slot enabled but we're also going to get support for not only a keyboard but also
a mouse at the same
time did you turn it off yeah are you sure
oh all right so pairing up the keyboard
was just a matter of okay well now the device is going to standby but pairing
up the keyboard was just a matter of turning on Bluetooth and now I can
navigate around inside the menus I mean if I didn't want to use the touch screen
which is actually a little easier I mean what the keyboard is actually for is for
typing so this oh okay well I accidentally hit a key at the beginning
but this keyboard is actually pretty
comfortable okay well I'm talking while I type so it makes it uh lots more
difficult but the responsiveness is good
the uh the comfort is quite nice it's very very low profile so you can
actually pack it around with you and it takes standard ablea batteries so you
don't have to worry about uh recharging it if you run into trouble you can just
buy some aa's and you are good to go it also has all of the usual Android short
key shortcut keys so you got your home button you've got chat you've got the
market you've got your Gmail music internet volume uh play some media
controls all of that good stuff I actually don't know what this button
does oh okay so that brings out the uh context menus so when you have the mouse
functionality that's going to come in the 3.1 update then I think we're going
to be in a situation where the functionality is dramatically improved
because now all of a sudden just by carrying a little mouse little Bluetooth
mouse and this skinny keyboard you can have all of those extra input options so
the last thing I'm going to look at is the HD speaker dock now our last big
accessory here is the HD speaker dock
and what this allows us to do is dock it the same way we would on the normal dock
which is weighted it powers and charges the device this has all of that
functionality as well but this one adds external speakers to the zoom which are
actually quite loud Distortion
free and definitely make for a satisfying gaming experience okay let's
also have a look at the other functionality of the HD speaker dock
though check this out so you got your your speaker here you can see it's
substantially larger than the regular dock it is also powered by a um an
inline power brick like this and you
also have support for the HDMI out whereas the regular dock actually blocks
the HDMI port you do not have support for HDMI out using that one the HD
speaker dock is also compatible not only with the zoom by itself but you can also
take it off and you can switch the mounting piece so that instead it is
compatible with the zoom in its case so
it adds a little bit of extra buffer space around the back so you can put it
in on the carrying case so thank you for checking out my overview of the Motorola
Zoom don't forget to subscribe to lus techtips for unboxings reviews and other
computer videos actually this is more of an overview of the zoom accessories I'll
be looking more in depth at the zoom itself on NCI Tech tips in the near
future as part of a tablet Roundup