I originally wrote this post on Thursday night right after I finished installing Word Press and it started out with this statement:  I don’t own a Xoom….yet!

That changed late this afternoon, because I found enough evidence to support my purchase.  That’s not to say that everything comes up roses.  Like all products, there are pros and cons, but I will expound upon those over time as I use my new gadget.

I was initially drawn to the iPad 2 on the day of the Apple Event.  It looked really slick, but then I ran across an article that [somewhat] jokingly referred to it as the iPad 1.5.  It was around this point that I began to talk myself down from it.  The processor was not going to be a dual core A5.  It’s a dual core A4. Correction: The iPad 2 does have a dual core A5 processors. They decided to leave out some of the anticipated functions and, in my opinion, they are holding them for the iPad 3, which may or may not be released in late 2011.

What do I really want? I want fewer restrictions.  I want to buy music from Amazon.com without having to manually import said music into iTunes, then sync it to my iPhone 3GS, and many other things. Now, that’s not saying that I will cease using my iPhone 3GS.

Yes, I have an iPhone 3GS- and the contract end in July 2010.

Why do I bring up my iPhone 3GS?  It’s tangentially related.  The functionality of the IOS restrictions can be compared to the [more- note that I did not say completely!] open Android OS: What’s similar, what’s  different, what works and what broken.

Honeycomb for the Xoom is optimized for tablets.  That alone is a detractor.

I’ve seen some good apps on my partner’s Droid X, but as I’ve come to find, not all of the phone apps play nicely on the Xoom optimized Honeycomb.

I’ve also must still find equivalents to the IOS apps that I have come to love.  That means that as I find and test apps, I will be posting information and links to them,

I also plan to dabble in Android development at some point too.

So, here begins my journey of Xooming About.