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Motorola Xoom Review - 02-23-2011, 08:42 PM


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02-24-2011, 12:01 PM


Anyone pick up a Xoom today? Your opinions on it so far?

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02-25-2011, 02:58 PM


Ok, so I got to play with one at BestBuy today and wow!

For some reason I kept thinking it was going to be bigger than an iPad looking at the physical specs, but it is only longer, considerably shorter, but thicker than an iPad. The iPad has the excess fat of the bezel, the Xoom cuts down on the bezel and utilizes this extra space. The weight lets you know it's there but the iPad is no featherweight.

I had some confusion that the 32gb was an SD card, which it is not, it is actually built-in and the SD card will be available for expansion later this month.

OS will take some getting use to, navigating through the menus and setting up the widgets and such. It's a solid device with a good start to a tablet OS. With updates coming hard and fast, such as Flash, more applications designed for it, and the availability of the SD card slot.

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02-25-2011, 02:59 PM


Motorola is already promising free 4G updates within 90 days too.

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02-25-2011, 03:05 PM


Motorola Xoom tablet Review - Tablets - CNET Reviews

This looks pretty good but for $800 for a 32GB...OUCH. You can get it for $600 bucks with a 2 year contract. No thanks.

Other than the price I like it. Not ready to jump ship but I think all the up coming competition is great for the market.

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I'm just waiting for the wifi only $600 one to come out

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