Motorola Xoom Review: The First Honeycomb Tablet Arrives

Email

The 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.