Android will become the king of the tablet market, stripping the coveted title from Apple’s iPad, according to Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell. The claim appears in an interview in today’s Wall Street Journal, in which Dell traces the meteoric rise of Android over the past 18 months and predicts that the platform’s entrance into the tablet market will achieve similar success. Though Dell can’t be considered completely objective (See: Dell Streak and Dell Streak 7) it is reassuring to see some confidence from the CEO of one of the largest computer manufacturers in the world.

Set to roll out in phases, a software update for Android’s candy bar with a keyboard, the Motorola Droid Pro, released late this week adds data encryption of contents stored on the microSD card and the phone itself along with a slew of other enhancements.  Amongst the changes,  Exchange ActiveSync received a healthy update to it’s policies, email, and calendar, plus some bug fixes.  IPSec VPN joined forces with Google’s VPN and combined their settings menus.  A proxy server can now be defined within the Wi-Fi settings and Verizon’s marked it with their VCAST app.  Some other minor bugs are squashed with the update as well.  Full release notes after the break.  Twitter

Listen up if you’re a Motorola Defy user — you’ve finally got some Froyo on tap, just waiting for you to go get it.  T-Mobile announced that the update is optional (I know you guys better than that!), official, and available through the phone settings.  To get to those, in case you haven’t been checking every few hours since you got the phone; open the menu, press settings, then about phone, and choose system updates.

Those barmy chaps at the Carphone Warehouse have taken their battle-testing of the Motorola Xoom to the extreme, starting off using Google Maps on the back of a motorcycle and culminating with some light 3G browsing on the wings of an airplane. In the video, which we’ve embedded above, they also put Motorola’s Honeycomb tablet through its paces on horseback, speedboat and see-saw. Not quite an Android in space, but very nearly as awesome.

In case you’ve been wondering what tablets, aside from the Motorola Xoom may be heading towards Canada we have some unconfirmed but nonetheless nice rumors for you. The above image is a comparison chart, which according to the details is an internal document fro Rogers outlining the differences between the iPad 2, LG Optimus Pad and the Huawei S7 tablets. While there isn’t even any rumored launch dates for the Huawei S7, it looks as though Rogers may be seeing the LG Optimus Pad as early as May 10 as an exclusive device to their network. That’s all for now but we’ll let you know more when the information becomes available. Mobile Syrup