My experiences with the Motorola Xoom + More
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Android 3.2 on the way: Welcome SD Card Slot!
0I’ve seen reference in several articles that Android 3.2 is on the way. Apparently the wifi only models will be receiving the update first, so it may still be several weeks.
I’ve went ahead and ordered a 64gb micro SD card in preperation and will eventually buy a second one. I really can’t wait until we have essentially unloaded storage! I may use one for the majority of my music and put video on a second card.
Flash is coming 3/18
0I knew in advance that Flash would not be on the Xoom right out of the box. It surprised me to find that a pre-flash update was being rolled out starting Friday, March 11. (Link to a Yahoo News article.)
What surprised me even more? I got the update notification on Saturday morning!
Now, it’s been revealed that Flash is actually being released on Friday, March 18th. (Link to PC Magazine article.) This is awesome news! I found the Official Adobe Blog Post that announces it and it was sent out on Motorola’s Twiiter account on March 11th.
Flash will give some leverage over the iPad 2, however, the issue with Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) bugs may allow Apple to inflate the problems into a marketing nightmare. Only time will tell.
I also have to wonder if Motorola thought ‘Why ask, when you can ask for forgiveness’ would work. Either way, and as much as I do love my Xoom already, I think Motorola rushed the Xoom into the market simply to try and beat the iPad 2 release date. That was a mistake, because there is no way Motorola could ever beat Apple. Period.
Please note: Even with the criticism…I still love my Xoom and would never trade it for an iPad 2.
Why I Xoom
01 year ago
by Charles
in General Post
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.