Motorola Droid Xyboard 10.1 (Verizon Wireless)
Pros
Integrated LTE. Good looking.
Cons
Very expensive for what you get. No memory card slot. Poor Mac compatibility. Verizon's app store is awful.
Bottom Line
The Motorola Xyboard 10.1 is outpaced by other Honeycomb Android tablets which cost less.
The Motorola Xyboard 10.1 is not quite enough tablet, for too much money. While it's much more handsome than the Xoom tablet it replaces, the Xyboard can't overcome its high price or Google Android Honeycomb's ongoing trouble with third-party apps.
Physical Design and Pricing
Slim at 10 by 6.8 by .35 inches, the Xyboard comes with a soft-touch back and slightly cropped corners, like something out of "Battlestar Galactica." The front is dominated by the 10.1-inch, 1,280-by-800-pixel screen; it's not that bright, but has very rich colors and blacks. At 1.33 pounds, it weighs the same as the iPad 2 ($499-$829, 4.5 stars), which is an average weight for a tablet this size.
The Power button and Volume rocker, along with the main 5-megapixel camera and stereo speakers, are on the back panel; there's a VGA camera on the front. The battery isn't removable, and there's no memory card slot, so the whole thing feels like a single, solid, seamless slab. It's classy, to be sure.
