Motorola Droid Xyboard 8.2 (Verizon Wireless)
21.05.12
Motorola gives you several input options on the Droid Xyboard: the standard Android keyboard, Swype, and Swiftkey Tablet X, which splits the keyboard in two (and puts a number pad in the middle). The latter was the best option for typing in landscape mode, as the Xyboard is just a little too wide, even for our relatively long thumbs. However, it takes some getting used to. We would have appreciated haptic feedback, which is not supported for any of the keyboards.
Unlike the Xyboard 10.1, the 8-inch version does not come with MyScript Stylus, which lets you write letters using your finger or a stylus.
Performance
Like the larger 10-inch Droid Xyboard, the 8.2-inch Xyboard has a 1.2-GHz dual-core TI OMAP 4430 processor, 1GB of RAM, and 32GB of onboard memory. Combined, those specs made for fairly speedy performance. On An3DBench, the Xyboard scored 7,269, which is about 100 points above the tablet average, but well below the Tegra 2-powered Toshiba Thrive (7,635) and the Tab 7.0 Plus (7,899), which has a 1.2-GHz dual-core Exynos processor. However, on the CPU portion of the Benchmark test, the Xyboard notched 3,385, comfortably above the average (2,708), as well as the Thrive (3,008) and the Tab 7.0 Plus (3,353).
Source: LAPTOP Magazine
