Optus starts selling Motorola Xoom Android tablet

Optus has announced it is now offering the Motorola Xoom Android 'Honeycomb' tablet little more than a month afterwards Telstra launched the device in Australia.

The Xoom tablet

Back in early May Telstra launched the Xoom tablet and Atrix smartphone with Motorola. The Xoom is regarded as one of the foremost challengers to Apple's venerable iPad tablet.

The Motorola Xoom was the first device to run on the Android 3.0 operating system and features a 1GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB of RAM, a 10.1-inch 1280x800 widescreen HD display, HDMI out and two cameras - a five-megapixel rear-facing camera and a two-megapixel front-facing camera.