Google challenging iPad Apple with motorola Xoom

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Google has launched their first tablet computer, marking their rivalry with the popular Apple product iPad.

Xoom Telegraph reported Motorola is the first device featuring the new operating system named "Honeycomb," which Google designed for touch screen tablet.

The device is like the iPad, has a screen 10 "that is really sensitive to touch.

According to the Telegraph, Motorola Xoom will be sold in the first quarter of next year in the United States and shortly thereafter in England. The price has not been disclosed.

Although the details of Honeycomb not disclosed at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the device that provides a new program that offers points map the major cities in 3D.

It also offers email services that exploit the wide-screen gadget.

Google previously allowed Samsung to make smaller tablets, sailing 7 ", but the device was using the same operating system with the Google phone.

Shawn DuBravak, chief economist at the American Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), said that he expects more than 100 new tablet computers launched at CES.

He added that in 2011 will be the "year of tablets," but that not all products are revealed at the event will be thrown into the market. Mr. Dubravac said a number of new product aims to provide business users with special reason to buy it.

Research from the CEA indicate that 38 percent of the tablet be traded because the users want to have one, rather than the identified purposes.

Although Apple makes all the software and their hardware, Google has taken the approach of "open source" to develop operating systems that allow the manufacturer meletekkannya in their own devices, like Motorola Xoom.