It's been a week of non stop use for me.
I thought this thing would sit on my coffee table and be a go to Wiki device with some email accounts and angry birds tied to it and let me just say I was wrong. Before I got the Xoom, I really wanted a tablet but wasn't quite sure how it would fit in to my every day life.
I got my Evo on launch day and wouldn't give it up, but the Xoom is becoming my go to communication device, my go to stats for work device, admin device, default browsing device and I've played more games in the last week on my Xoom than I have on my xbox or PC combined in the last 6 months.
Honeycomb is the base of a true new version of Android, this is really more like a super fast portable PC than like a handset.
Android handsets are great and you can do a lot on them, but the Xoom, everything just seems easier and it's so fast it makes the tedious type of stuff a tad more pleasurable because:
a) I'm not fumbling around a smaller screen and
b) when I do things I feel like I'm on Star Trek:TNG and I've just checked the ship's logs for the overnight watch.
c) It's faster than waking up a PC
d) I can get to more information faster than switching tabs on a browser
e) You can bring it practically anywhere
f) The battery lasts forever
I have to say, this is an awesome device and as well the Thumb Keyboard app is a MUST HAVE - it changed the whole input experience drastically. I hope Moto or other tablet OEMs or Google start buying licenses in bulk and just release it on anything 7" or bigger.
I know there's been some threads focusing on the Xoom's competition the last 24 hours - please, direct your attention here:
YouTube - Tablet Evolution presented by Motorola
About your doubts:
If you're concerned about Adobe Flash, or your favorite apps being Honeycomb compatible, or Google updating the market, or the 4G upgrade, or the sdcard, or whatever it is, just realize owning a Xoom right now is like investing in the future. You're ahead of the curve waiting for literally more than a thousand different things to catch up and inter-operate with each other. All of these issues will be worked out in due time (which I believe to be extremely short if you've seen the number of app updates in the last week).
This is a tremendously awesome piece of hardware made by one of the world's best companies that has been around for quite some time. The software was literally designed by some of the smartest people on the planet.
I thought this thing would sit on my coffee table and be a go to Wiki device with some email accounts and angry birds tied to it and let me just say I was wrong. Before I got the Xoom, I really wanted a tablet but wasn't quite sure how it would fit in to my every day life.
I got my Evo on launch day and wouldn't give it up, but the Xoom is becoming my go to communication device, my go to stats for work device, admin device, default browsing device and I've played more games in the last week on my Xoom than I have on my xbox or PC combined in the last 6 months.
Honeycomb is the base of a true new version of Android, this is really more like a super fast portable PC than like a handset.
Android handsets are great and you can do a lot on them, but the Xoom, everything just seems easier and it's so fast it makes the tedious type of stuff a tad more pleasurable because:
a) I'm not fumbling around a smaller screen and
b) when I do things I feel like I'm on Star Trek:TNG and I've just checked the ship's logs for the overnight watch.
c) It's faster than waking up a PC
d) I can get to more information faster than switching tabs on a browser
e) You can bring it practically anywhere
f) The battery lasts forever
I have to say, this is an awesome device and as well the Thumb Keyboard app is a MUST HAVE - it changed the whole input experience drastically. I hope Moto or other tablet OEMs or Google start buying licenses in bulk and just release it on anything 7" or bigger.
I know there's been some threads focusing on the Xoom's competition the last 24 hours - please, direct your attention here:
YouTube - Tablet Evolution presented by Motorola
About your doubts:
If you're concerned about Adobe Flash, or your favorite apps being Honeycomb compatible, or Google updating the market, or the 4G upgrade, or the sdcard, or whatever it is, just realize owning a Xoom right now is like investing in the future. You're ahead of the curve waiting for literally more than a thousand different things to catch up and inter-operate with each other. All of these issues will be worked out in due time (which I believe to be extremely short if you've seen the number of app updates in the last week).
This is a tremendously awesome piece of hardware made by one of the world's best companies that has been around for quite some time. The software was literally designed by some of the smartest people on the planet.
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