iPad Reviews: Motorola Xoom likely to be a strong rival to Apple iPad

If there’s any tablet this year that can wrest significant market share from the blazing-hot Apple iPad, it will be the Motorola Xoom, an impossibly beautiful and exciting piece of hardware.
Motorola has stuffed a super-fast dual-core 1GHz processor, a super-vibrant 10.1-inch widescreen display, front- and rear-facing cameras and 32GB of internal storage into a svelte, 1.6-pound package.
The Xoom began shipping Thursday with a whopping retail price of $800 at Best Buy or $600 from Verizon Wireless with a two-year data contract. Monthly data rates from Verizon start at $20 a month for 1GB of data.

First Android 3.0 tablet

The Xoom is the first tablet to run on Google’s all-new Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) operating system.
Honeycomb immerses users in the tablet experience without all the reminders of previous Android tablets that it was just phone software on a larger screen.
The home screen is divided into five panels, each with plenty of room for Honeycomb’s powerful widgets.
The widgets — for things like Gmail, Web bookmarks, YouTube videos and calendar events — all display useful information on the home screen.
The software team at Google has also rebuilt the system-wide navigation structure, creating a handy task bar at the bottom that displays app notifications, signal strength and battery Hp dv8000 Dell d820 life.
It takes getting used to, but the navigation quickly becomes intuitive with its buttons for back, home and a choice to display thumbnails of applications still running in the background.
Battery life on the Xoom is excellent. Motorola rates the Wi-Fi browsing life at 10 hours, and my tests actually exceeded that mark by a half-hour.
The cameras allow for videoconferencing and video-recording. Taking a photo with the 10.1-inch screen is more fun than I expected, and the 5-megapixel rear camera produces decent images.
You’ll be disappointed that very few Android programs have been translated well from the smartphone dell vostro 1000 battery to the tablet’s larger screen.
Gmail remains inexplicably separated from all other e-mail programs.
The tablet’s speakers are also peculiarly placed on the back of the device, which can make videos sound loud and clear to the person on the other side of room, but muffled to the tablet user.
The Xoom ships without many of the features that were supposed to make it a clear choice over the iPad.
The Xoom has a microSD slot for easily adding storage or adding photos from a camera, but that port is not yet enabled. An over-the-air software upgrade is planned to enable that Dell latitude e6400 battery feature.

Updates promised soon

The tablet is also shipping without support for Flash video, which has been chief among the concerns from iPad holdouts. Verizon promises an update “soon.”
It also does not use Verizon’s faster LTE 4G wireless network, even as that network now covers 80% of metro Detroiters. Tablet users with a data contract will be using Verizon’s slower 3G network for the time being.
The tablet will be upgradeable to 4G, though, with a hardware swap that users can get for free from Motorola. Verizon says Xoom users should expect to be without their tablet for six days while it is upgraded.
The good news is that almost every flaw on the Xoom lies in the half-baked software. Software can be updated, and already has been.
In the first couple of days of my testing, the Android Market app itself was very buggy, Dell latitude d830 inspiron 1520 causing recently downloaded apps to open randomly and unprompted.
It was fixed in a software update on Friday, though, just one day after the tablet’s public release.
Buying into a platform that still has bugs at an $800 price tag will be a hard threshold to cross for even the most fervent Android devotees.

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The Xoom needed to reach higher as it hits the market almost a year after the iPad — especially as Apple prepares to unveil its next-generation tablet on Wednesday.
But as the software improves, the Xoom will prove an incredibly attractive alternative to the iPad.
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