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The Instabilities Recap and Criticisms

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1 year ago
by Charles in

While the majority of my Xoom experience has been extremely positive, I would be remiss if I did not comment on the problems that I’ve had.

 

WinAmp – After I installed WinAmp, it was immediately unstable.  It crashed a number of times.  Playlists were not accessible- they were completely missing.  They eventually showed up, but it was so unstable that I stopped using it. An update installed today, but I haven’t had a chance to test it.

 

Exchange – I had to dig up the settings to connect to the Exchange server at work.  There are special circumstances, which I won’t go into.  The first time I went through the corporate account setup, it failed and the configuration application crashed.   It worked on the second attempt and I’ve had no problems since.  I’ll make another post later this week to describe some of the settings for setting up Exchange.

 

Facebook – It’s not been a fun experience.  It’s locked up and crashed several times, since I installed it.  I think Facebook will be OK once they optimize it for Honeycomb.

 

Unexpected crash and reboot – The entire tablet crashed and restarted once while I was installing a really processor intensive live wallpaper.  This was a major mistake on my part.  If you install anything that uses that much processor- you are asking for instability!

 

Doubletwist with Airsync – While I love the idea of syncing music to the Xoom wirelessly, it is painfully slow.   I’m still syncing chunks of music at a time, until I get my full collection  transferred. Luckily, the Xoom has the same amount of storage as my iPhone 3GS, so I won’t exceed the total amount of storage.  It’s also when syncing across the USB cable, but I really need to test that out more.

 

SD Card – While this is not an instability related issue, the SD Card slot is currently disabled.  I’m not really concerned about that right now, since as I  mentioned I have the same amount of storage on my iPhone – 32G.  BUT- when they push out the Honeycomb update – hopefully this Summer! – I will then have double the storage- 64G.  This will then become another vast improvement over IOS devices, because none of Apple’s mobile products allow for an SD card.

 

A Few More Apps

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1 year ago
by Charles in

I’m continuing to bring my Xoom experience up to par with the variety of apps on my existing iPhone 3GS

A word on apps:   As I’ve mentioned, not all Phone apps work nicely on the Xoom.  I found a forum thread with a list of apps people have running under Honeycomb (Android v.3.0.)

I’ve grabbed a few more free apps and purchased several others…

Widgetsoid (free): A widget that gives you easier control over Bluetooth, Volume, Wifi, Brightness, Battery Life

Trillian ($4.99): I have been a very long time Trillian Instant Messenger user- multiple IM networks, multiple devices & OSes: Windows, Mac, IOS, & Android.

Beautiful Widgets (1.99 Euro): Weather app that hooks into AccuWeather…tons of nice skins, awesome weather icons and animations

Dolphine Browser HD (free): Another web browser, superior to the OS browser. I’m still looking forward to Firefox though.

Xmarks Premium (free app, but pay service): I’ve been using Xmarks since before it went pay, but it’s very worth the yearly subscription to sync my bookmarks across 3 desktop work PCs, my laptop, home desktop, iPhone, and the Xoom.

Angry Birds (Free): Yes, I gave in and downloaded both the regular and Seasons.  Wow, it looks really good on a 10.1″ screen.

CNN (free): Pretty cool to have streaming archived and live video feeds plus news galore.

Pulse (free): A very nice RSS news reader.   It now allows hooks into Google Reader, which is my primary news reader via Safari on the iPhone.   Read articles are marked read on my Google account, so I get the same view on the iPhone.

Google Sky (free): Very cool view of the night sky.

Astro (free): You really need a file viewer. It lets you browse the storage area of an Android device.

Navigation (free):  Google voice based GPS app.  I only just discovered this. We’ll try it out this afternoon in the car, although Steven already has it on his Droid X.

System Panel ($2.99): Manage your resources and apps, memory, utilization, kill running services/apps, etc.

Winamp (free):  What can I say…WinAmp has been around since the dawn of time, or see it seems.  It really whips the lama’s ass!  I’ve got my 70′s playlist pumping out now, while Airsync corrects a sync problem yesterday.

HeyTell (free):  Walkie-Talkie like voice messaging, cross platform with Android and IOS.

AK NotePad (free): I needed a note taking app and Steven has this on his Droid X

Matrix II Reloaded (free): What can I say, I wanted to see what Matrix streaming ‘code’ looked like on the Xoom!

Amazon MP3 (free): This should be the easiest way to buy music, but I haven’t tested it yet.

Kindle for Android (free): I only own Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol and I read that on my iPhone,

 

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