Making a comparison is not easy, but it’s hard to say it difficult at once. The clearest thing would be such comparison is important to help people find the best gadget and see the most worthy for your wallet. Getting the winner out of its cage is useful, showing you all how the way the device beat its counterpart. MWC gives us a lot of things, including the HTC’s first tablet Flyer. We took a look at the Flyer’s specs and a list of good features seems to be promising.
What will happen if you stack all those specs against its direct counterpart, the Motorola Xoom? Let’s see the details of the war!
Size and Weight
The HTC Flyer uses a 7-inch TFT touchscreen measuring 1024×600 pixels of resolution, results a small tablet to make it easy to carry and an average screen to view. The Xoom comes with a larger display of 10.10-inch capacitive touchscreen, and fortunately a better resolution of 1280×800 pixels.
They say size isn’t everything, but it does matter to some. A lot of people would like to buy a small screen tablet because of the practical reason, not related to the price. It wouldn’t be a big matter to feel it like a chunky phone as well.
However, we should still give the crown to the Xoom because it has a better screen, with the higher resolution. The Flyer is still impressive, not to forget its offer of nice and bright screen with vivid colors.
Apart from the size, the Xoom is actually thinner at 12.9mm compared to the Flyer’s 13.2mm. Best of all, the Xoom has everything to be a good-looking tablet. It is more desirable than the Flyer’s appearance, as well as simpler.
Software
Either the Flyer or the Motorola Xoom runs Android. But, the Xoom is much special with its Honeycomb 3.0, while the Flyer will have Gingerbread at first- the upgrade is available soon. Of course, we should choose one of the two devices running the best performance, and thus the Xoom is the winner. The Xoom would be safe promising no problems with such simple native Google Android. In addition, this is true that the Honeycomb is the first recommended Android version to be used on tablet.
Processor
The Flyer only gives the users the single core 1.5GHz processor, which is not so powerful to fight against the competitors while the Xoom is more future-proof with its 1GHz dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2. It’s no way to doubt that the dual-core processor will beat the tiny single core processor.
Camera
The Xoom has two cameras, the rear camera being a 5-megapixel with 1280×720 HD resolutions at 720p and its secondary is a 2-megapixel. The Flyer also uses a 5-megapixel rear camera, but the front-facing camera only sports a 1.3-megapixel.
There’s no much different found at this point, or in other words both tablets are shared.
Connectivity
Once again, the Xoom shows its strength, with a few extras with Bluetooth 2.1, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, microUSB 2.0 HDMI 1.4 and a 3.5mm audio jack and DLNA. The Flyer is not that stunning with Bluetooth 3.0, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, microUSB 2.0 and a 3.5mm audio jack. It’s now easy to make the Xoom as a winning tablet because of its few more connection options.
Storage
The Flyer offers 32GB of internal storage and 1GB of RAM plus microSD support up to 32GB. The Xoom also sports 1GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. It has a microSD which is possibly expanded up to 32GB. There’s not much between the two tablets, and thus we call it draw.
Conclusion
The Xoom could win many of above comparison points. But, we can still say it a fair fight, but the Flyer itself is not exactly out of date at the moment. The Xoom thinks it well to exist still until the near future while the Flyer isn’t able to follow that step.
Original from:
http://nokiafanboy.com/2011/03/04/motorola-xoom-vs-htc-flyer-review-which-is-the-big-fish/
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