Hands-On With The Latest Motorola Xyboards

It’s not every day that you have two – count ‘em – two Motorola Honeycomb tablets drop on your lap but today’s one of those days. I’ve just powered up the Xyboard 8.2 and 10.1 and am running them through their paces right now. The tablets are surprisingly thin and, in preliminary LTE tests, surprisingly fast on the wireless networks, topping out at 28.8mbps.

I’m going to withhold judgement until I mess with these guys a bit but as it stands the power and performance are impressive. As Matt notes, however, the 10.1 model costs $529 with contract and the 8.2 costs $429. You’re going to hear this again and again: Verizon’s prices are too darn high.

Contracts aside, these look to be quite capable and if the battery life isn’t too bad they may be worth looking into if you’re looking for a tablet with an LTE solution built-in.

Google Introduces ‘Currents’ – A New Way To Enjoy Your Favorite Sites On The Go

Mobile devices are one of the top ways we check news, watch videos, and interact with social networks. In short, it’s how we consume content. Doing what it does best, Google has released a new app for Android phones and tablets to help us get the content we want even faster. It’s calledCurrents (previously rumored as Propeller), and, simply put, it’s incredible.

Basically, it takes your favorite websites and turns them into digital magazines. A whole slew of top sites are already involved in the project, including All Things D, Mashable, The Huffington Post, The Next Web, and PBS, just to name a few. Currents starts you off with a small library to check out, but you can add and remove content as you please.

 

It’s more than just the sites in the library, too – you can add RSS feeds, public Google+ feeds, and basically any other website to your library.

Currents, along with all of its content, is available for free in the Android Market. Hit the link below to grab it.