Motorola Xoom Review: The First Honeycomb Tablet Arrives
by Anand Lal Shimpi on February 23, 2011 11:57 PM ESTThe email and Gmail apps are both perfect fits for Honeycomb. The UI provides a two column view, folders/inboxes on the left with messages/previews on the right. The formula works so why change it?
Attachments are handled beautifully in the email app. Rather than scrolling down to the bottom of an email to find all attachments there’s an attachment button you can hit in the message pane to show a list of attachments on the email.
Scrolling is smooth and the overall user experience is better than the iPad simply due to the performance of the app on this hardware.
There is one glaring bug I encountered however. I could not get email deletion to sync properly to the AnandTech IMAP server. Emails would download just fine, but if I deleted an email on the Xoom the email wouldn’t get deleted off of the server. This works fine in all earlier versions of Android so it looks like it’s a Honeycomb specific bug at this point. Obviously Gmail integration works perfectly.
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GotThumbs - Friday, March 18, 2011 - link
Hold out a little longer...599 WIFI only coming March 27th. Hope you didn't buy the Archos yet. Early adopters always pay more $$$. If you just wait a little while...the prices always adjust after buying slows down at higher price. Thats just the economics of it. Apple is able to sell at higher prices, so why would they lower them.GotThumbs - Friday, March 18, 2011 - link
Coming out Mrch 27th. Hold on a little longer for a better tablet. My boss offered to buy me the new IPAD2 the other day. I told him 'no thanks, its either an ADAM or a Xoom or nothing" The ADAM is still developing their production and having growing pains.....the product is excellent and will be a great addition to the tablet market when it arrives in stores...for now...its Xoom. Now with the WIFI version coming out...it will boost sales for those consumers who did not want the 3g option and high cost.Android_Blogger - Monday, March 21, 2011 - link
Apparantly, the 3G version costs 600 GBP in the UK at least. Source: <a href="http://www.motorola-xoom.co.uk/">UK Xoom Tablet blog</a>Android_Blogger - Monday, March 21, 2011 - link
Source:www.motorola-xoom.co.ukspambonk - Sunday, April 10, 2011 - link
What I don't get are the specs on Amazon which says this device also has a 2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile inside??? What, it has both a tegra and a intel core 2??? What is this madness.fentleson - Friday, April 15, 2011 - link
Better screens. Resolution isnt as important as screen quality.vtx1300 - Friday, April 15, 2011 - link
HD front and rear cameras - USB2/3, GigE and E-SATA connections and a Free (commercial sponsored?) Data PlanDixon Butz - Sunday, April 17, 2011 - link
I want to see a slide out keyboard. Or a mini removable keyboard.911dude - Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - link
I'm wondering about the effect that the pending ATT buyout of T-Mobile will have on the future of Xoom.ANDROCELES - Friday, April 22, 2011 - link
I HOPE 2 TRY ONE