Good news, Motorola modders: the root method developed for the Motorola DROID XYBOARD 10.1 and DROID XYBOARD 8.2 should work on just about every current Motorola device out there. The developer of the XYBOARD root method (among many, many others) Dan Rosenberg said that the exploit, which he calls “Motofail”, should work on Motorola devices running Gingerbread and Honeycomb. Since that encompasses pretty much every Motorola device released in the last six months, it’s a major boon to the community.

The DROID XYBOARD tablets are the only Honeycomb devices to come from Motorola since the original XOOM, which already has an official Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade since it’s Google’s developer device for Honeycomb anyway. Anyone who’s running the ICS update already probably rooted it about half a minute after flashing. For all those running the various DROID RAZRs and Atrixes out there, you should be seeing new apps and one-click root tools very soon. A big thanks goes to Mr. Rosenberg for his tireless root work.

And rooting for Motorola devices has gotten a lot more important this week, as the company announced their plans for official Ice Cream Sandwich updates. Most of the company’s current phones won’t be getting ICS until the second quarter of 2012, if at all. A lot of these phones (basically all of them on Verizon) won’t get an unlocked bootloader, either, but ICS ROMs can be bootstrapped off of Gingerbread kernels for limited functionality. Motorola’s stance on bootloaders and updates isn’t winning it any fans among advanced users – and interesting fact, since they’ll soon be fully acquired by Google itself.

Device Specifications and Information

Device Info

Device Name : DROID XYBOARD 8.2

Manufactuer : Motorola

Carrier : Verizon

Announced Date : November 03, 2011

Release Date : December 09, 2011

Also Known As : XOOM 2 ME

Display

• Screen Size : 8.2 Inch
• Resolution : 1280x720
• Screen Type : NA

Dimension & Weight

• Height : 8.5 Inch
• Width : 5.47 Inch
• Depth : 0.35 Inch
• Weight : 386 Grams

Battery & Power

• Battery Capacity : mAh
• Talk Time : NA
• Stand By Time : NA

Software

Android OS:
• 3.2.x

Audio Playback:
• AAC
• AAC+
• AMR
• MP3
• WMA

Video Playback:
• h.264 / AVC
• MPEG-4 (MP4)

Hardware

CPU :

CPU Clock Speed : 1200 Mhz

Core : 2

Ram : 1024 MB

Internal Storage : 16 GB

Front Facing Camera :

Camera Resolution : 5 MP

Camera Features:
• Auto focus
• Flash

Sensors:
• Accelerometer
• Ambient light

QWERTY :

Cellular Network

Device Connectivity

Wi-Fi:
• 802.11b
• 802.11g
• 802.11n

Bluetooth:
• Bluetooth 2.0

Location Features:
• Compass
• GPS

FM Radio :

NFC :

Device Specifications and Information

Device Info

Device Name : DROID XYBOARD 10.1

Manufactuer : Motorola

Carrier : Verizon

Announced Date : November 03, 2011

Release Date : December 09, 2011

Also Known As : XOOM 2

Display

• Screen Size : 10.1 Inch
• Resolution : 1280x720
• Screen Type : LCD

Dimension & Weight

• Height : 10 Inch
• Width : 6.83 Inch
• Depth : 0.35 Inch
• Weight : 599 Grams

Battery & Power

Battery Type:
• Lithium Ion

• Battery Capacity : mAh
• Talk Time : NA
• Stand By Time : NA

Software

Android OS:
• 3.2.x

Audio Playback:
• AAC
• AAC+
• MP3
• WMA

Video Playback:
• MPEG-4 (MP4)

Hardware

CPU :

CPU Clock Speed : 1200 Mhz

Core : 2

Ram : 1024 MB

Internal Storage : 16 GB

Front Facing Camera :

Camera Resolution : 5 MP

External Storage:
• MicroSD
• MicroSDHC

Camera Features:
• Auto focus
• Flash

Sensors:
• Accelerometer
• Ambient light

QWERTY :

Cellular Network

Device Connectivity

Wi-Fi:
• 802.11b
• 802.11g
• 802.11n

Bluetooth:
• Bluetooth 2.0

Location Features:
• Compass
• GPS

FM Radio :

NFC :

[via Android Police]