[ALERT] Got Xoom from 3rd party VZW - Xoom Vids & PICs

[2CupsWithString]

Sweet! I bet only some are doing this, though. Either way, I;m going the Costco route

Buy any accessories?

Actually what was so funny was the accessories don't come in until tomorrow.

 

[2CupsWithString]

Dungeon Defenders only has to downloaded a million MBs before it starts.. cute. The Cordy game is kind of cute.

Battery seems like it's made out of gold, not very phone like, since around 8:45/9pm I've had the screen mostly on and it went from 72% to 56%.

 

[alee]

Actually what was so funny was the accessories don't come in until tomorrow.

Haha yeah... my dealer said he'd hold a bunch of accessories for me when they come in tomorrow and I can pick and choose.

Gotta love NYC dealers... money always talks.

 

[Live2ride883]

I wanna see Fruit Ninja, and Angry Birds

 

[2CupsWithString]

I wanna see Fruit Ninja, and Angry Birds

I had fruit ninja running, it was actually a game that ran and it ran good but looked kind of bad. It needs to be updated for the higher resolution.

I haven't installed angry birds yet.

 

[Stang68]

Yeah, I read the battery is really solid!

 

[Chris Kerrigan]

8 1/2 hours of battery life watching a video the entire time, brightness at 65% (according to Engaget). That's pretty spectacular if you ask me.

 

[Stang68]

I had fruit ninja running, it was actually a game that ran and it ran good but looked kind of bad. It needs to be updated for the higher resolution.

I haven't installed angry birds yet.

Seems to me like Google should have released the Honeycomb SDK two weeks ago and not two days ago. Obviously devs will update their apps, I just hope it doesn't take more than a few weeks. The SDK upgrade process looked really easy, actually.

 

[2CupsWithString]

Seems to me like Google should have released the Honeycomb SDK two weeks ago and not two days ago. Obviously devs will update their apps, I just hope it doesn't take more than a few weeks. The SDK upgrade process looked really easy, actually.

Maybe two months ago.

I wonder how much of the hardware acceleration stuff will have to get re-written for Tegra.

I think after some growing pains this will all be very sweet.

 

[wynand32]

Something I'm curious about: once apps are written for the tablet, will they be their own apps that will need to be repurchased, or will our current purchased apps cross over? Or, perhaps, a mix?

 

[2CupsWithString]

Something I'm curious about: once apps are written for the tablet, will they be their own apps that will need to be repurchased, or will our current purchased apps cross over? Or, perhaps, a mix?

As long as the developer keeps it the same app we should be able to just keep upgrading it. I wouldn't be mad at anyone if they re-worked a whole app and wanted another $1 - $5 though, I think that's more than reasonable.

I think with the new API levels though the developers will just have to really write once and no matter the hardware platform the app will run fine (as long as they use all the API stuff that is), we'll probably have to wait until the Honeycomb & Gingerbread forks are merged as Ice cream before "fragmentation" really dies.

 

[Stang68]

Something I'm curious about: once apps are written for the tablet, will they be their own apps that will need to be repurchased, or will our current purchased apps cross over? Or, perhaps, a mix?

It looks like they'll be the same app but will work well on the tablet. I have gotten a few updates already that had "Honeycomb tablet compatibility" added in the Recent Changes section in the market. Very good news!

One of them actually said they added hardware acceleration. Ahh, getting so excited!

 

[inferomorz]

So I was messing with this thing yesterday and noticed that apps that I have paid for (such as swiftkey) that are listed in the "tablet compatible" section of the market had a price tag on them instead of the "Purchased" tag. I don't get my Xoom until tomorrow, so can anyone confirm if this was just a bug or do tablet-based versions of apps have a serparate price?

 

[dcviperboy]

for anyone who got one, was yours shrink wrapped? The guy at BB told me "none of them were"...I'm a bit skeptical

 

[robert_in_la]

You are not required to activate anymore... Verizon sent out a notice to retailers late yesterday notifying them of the move.