agreed. things also didn't scale right when moved from landscape to portrait. My web pages where cut off when I switched to portrait and I had to scroll left to right!
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The xoom DOES have a wifi version!!
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agreed. things also didn't scale right when moved from landscape to portrait. My web pages where cut off when I switched to portrait and I had to scroll left to right!
PCWorld in the UK have the exclusive rights to the Xoom (Carphone Warehouse having the rights to the 3G version). There's a pre-order page with the price at £499. Apparently it's due out in a few weeks according to the site.
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/motor...now-available-for-pre-order-09752543-pdt.html
I'm quite interested in the Xoom, I recently defected from my iPhone 3GS to a HTC Desire HD (It was very hard to do as a card carrying Apple fanboy) and I am loving the Android platform so far. A tablet with similar customisation would be amazing. Saying that, with the Xoom being the first Android 3.0 Tablet I might hold off until the platform matures a little.
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/motor...now-available-for-pre-order-09752543-pdt.html
I'm quite interested in the Xoom, I recently defected from my iPhone 3GS to a HTC Desire HD (It was very hard to do as a card carrying Apple fanboy) and I am loving the Android platform so far. A tablet with similar customisation would be amazing. Saying that, with the Xoom being the first Android 3.0 Tablet I might hold off until the platform matures a little.
Ya im hoping all the honeycomb bugs will be out by the time the galaxy tab 10.1 comes out.
Well, the first OTA is out today. 15MB file. Officially it prepares the Xoom for the 3/18 launch of Flash Player 10.2, although speculation is that there are some bug fixes in there as well. OTA updates are nice...
Well, the first OTA is out today. 15MB file. Officially it prepares the Xoom for the 3/18 launch of Flash Player 10.2, although speculation is that there are some bug fixes in there as well. OTA updates are nice...
HOLY CRAP! macrumors has an advertisement for the xoom on right now, just thought id throw that out there. anyways, ya if the next ios update has flash then android wont have ANYTHING on them, I doubt it will though. if they give us flash then we dont have to buy or rent any videos from the apple store anymore
I'm an Android fanboy (I'm on my third Android phone now), but still I'm getting an iPad 2 instead of the Xoom. I'm almost sure that I like Honeycomb more than iOS4, but the Xoom at its current state and price, it's just not good enough as a consumer product. The Xoom is more like a beta product, or a developer device right now.
I guess I will wait 2 or 3 months, when most Honeycomb kirks & bugs are ironed out, when it has working Flash + 4G + SD card slot, and when a cheaper Wi-Fi version is available (not sure whether I want 4G or just wifi though), then I may get one. For now, I'll stick with iPad 2, and I highly doubt that the resell value of the iPad 2 will drop significantly when I want to move to Honeycomb in 3 months. And who knows, at the current pace Android is moving, by that time there will probably be half a dozen more better built Honeycomb tablets to choose from.
I guess I will wait 2 or 3 months, when most Honeycomb kirks & bugs are ironed out, when it has working Flash + 4G + SD card slot, and when a cheaper Wi-Fi version is available (not sure whether I want 4G or just wifi though), then I may get one. For now, I'll stick with iPad 2, and I highly doubt that the resell value of the iPad 2 will drop significantly when I want to move to Honeycomb in 3 months. And who knows, at the current pace Android is moving, by that time there will probably be half a dozen more better built Honeycomb tablets to choose from.
HOLY CRAP! macrumors has an advertisement for the xoom on right now, just thought id throw that out there. anyways, ya if the next ios update has flash then android wont have ANYTHING on them, I doubt it will though. if they give us flash then we dont have to buy or rent any videos from the apple store anymore
You don't have to buy or rent video from Apple for the iPad either. There are numerous ways of getting DRM free video onto an iPad and plenty of TV channels have their own Apps now.
Having Flash also doesn't solve some of the business problems. For example I wouldn't be surprised if standard/free Hulu is blocked from Honeycomb tablets.
Somehow my Flash-enabled Android 2.2 phone disagrees vehemently with that statement.
youre renting and buying videos from the apple store to put on your android 2.2 phone? alright.....
Dear OP,
The wifi Xoom isn't here yet. Stop doing a microsoft and promoting vaporware.
BTW, it's still more expensive than the cheapest ipad.
The wifi Xoom isn't here yet. Stop doing a microsoft and promoting vaporware.
BTW, it's still more expensive than the cheapest ipad.
a ton of people on this forum keep bringing up that the ipad starts at 500 and the xoom starts at 800. GUYS the xoom has a wifi version for 530! just saying, check your facts. get your noses out of the steve jobs bible
Dear OP,
The wifi Xoom isn't here yet. Stop doing a microsoft and promoting vaporware.
BTW, it's still more expensive than the cheapest ipad.
well put friend! (love the microsoft joke
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Let's put it this way. Flash is terrible for most battery-based mobile device. It's definitely not the right substitute for having access to the real movie files or even the web access to H264 files.
And I don't just talk about it because I read about it on the web. I own the Android phone with Flash right in front of me and have used Flash. It's terrible.
When Ars Technica found it lacking, as in serious lacking, it helped make up my mind. I haven't found their reviews to be crap, ever
Do you mean the big bug ? The one where any 14 year old can hack your device ?
And looking at the mayhem surrounding the iPad2 rollout, it looks like the Xoom will reside with the Tab on Insignificance Street.
The specific comment was that the browser force closes "a lot". By a lot, I understood that to be more than once or twice a day, which is what I've personally observed. A lot to me is once or twice per hour. That's what I said was full of crap.
Reviewers are human beings with opinions like you and me. It reminds me of the "reviewers" that trash every Chuck Norris, Sylvester Stallone, or Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. It is very difficult for reviewers, especially in the technical area, to suppress their bias. That doesn't mean their reviews are ALL crap
, but it means you should not consider them the be all end all. If Ars Technica says so, I also like to hear from other sources, including actual owners, and preferably I like to experience it myself (which is why I bought one and am keeping it, mostly to play with it, learn, and have fun). I get no compensation from Google or Motorola for "defending" the Xoom. It just irks me a bit having experienced the Xoom myself firsthand to see some of the bias and outright misinformation some reviewers and techno heads are putting out there. It worries me that when I can't afford to experience a new gadget myself and need to reply on their advice they are going to steer me wrong.
YMMV.
The specific comment was that the browser force closes "a lot". By a lot, I understood that to be more than once or twice a day, which is what I've personally observed. A lot to me is once or twice per hour. That's what I said was full of crap.
Reviewers are human beings with opinions like you and me. It reminds me of the "reviewers" that trash every Chuck Norris, Sylvester Stallone, or Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. It is very difficult for reviewers, especially in the technical area, to suppress their bias. That doesn't mean their reviews are ALL crap
I get no compensation from Google or Motorola for "defending" the Xoom. It just irks me a bit having experienced the Xoom myself firsthand to see some of the bias and outright misinformation some reviewers and techno heads are putting out there. It worries me that when I can't afford to experience a new gadget myself and need to reply on their advice they are going to steer me wrong.
YMMV.
The thing is that it's not just one review which mentions this, I think that all the reviews I've seen have included one or more of "buggy", "unfinished", "has potential", "beta" and "doesn't have Apps". The overwhelming opinion in reviews is that the Xoom was released before it was ready. Why on Earth should people pay up before there is concrete evidence that these problems have been fixed?