Motorola’s Xoom was the first Android Honeycomb tablet, and there’s a new one incoming: forget the Xoom Family Edition and its software bundle; the Xoom 2 is smarter, faster and more powerful than its predecessor – and it looks like it’ll be here by Christmas. So what can we expect?

Christmas is coming, and that means just one thing: the annual orgy of consumerism where firms compete to part you from your hard-earned cash. Motorola’s entry is a new twist on a familiar device: a new Family Edition of its Android-powered Xoom Tablet.