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Australian Motorola Xoom owners. Android Honeycomb 3.1 is out! (settings, about tablet, system updates) i just might keep mine now. 🙂

My first Android (part 4)

Ok.  Its been a week now.  The Xoom’s still here and sees the light of the day when I get home and my daughter wants to play angry birds.

It adds a bit of weight to the rest of my kit (laptop, cds, screwdriver, etc) and in all honesty its been a bit disappointing.

Having come from the iPhone to this is a big step backwards and to those that think it’s an improvement are kidding themselves (or just want something that’s NOT Apple).

The Android market is filled with expensive applications (what happened to free?) and it’s confusing to browse.  There is no real phone / tablet identification and so many apps when installed, are wasted on the tablet screen size.

The reviews are mostly rubbish and the rating system is misleading.  A lot of the “free” apps are trial versions which irks me for tears!

I’ve yet to find a “go to” reason for using the Xoom, and for the time being, I still need it to support my clients that are buying Android phone.  L

Hopefully next update is better.

so this is why i have no android honeycomb apps for my xoom http://bit.ly/mhNOaJ 😦

My first Android (part 3)

Well, it’s almost a week now, and the one person that uses the Xoom more than me is my almost 4  year old daughter.

There are some brilliant kid’s apps for it and of course Angry Birds.  She’s had an iPod since she was 1 so the “Big iPhone” is a huge thing for her (literally).

I received some accessories that I’d ordered (a leather looking case, a screen protector and a stylus) and quickly went about fitting them.  The case is superb and for $20 is simply a must have.  It protects the Xoom, all round, has a copy me iPad function where you can flip the case around and it like a photo frame and the edges of the case cover have magnets to hold it down.

The screen protector is an absolutely (insert expletive here) of a job!  At around a couple of bucks its ultra-cheap and they give you 2 (I should’ve order another 4!).  I thought I was quite the expert on putting on these screens as I’ve done a dozen iPhones, iPods and iTouch’s (no iPads though) but the Xoom is in a different class altogether!  It took me around 20-30 mins making sure the glass was clean and without dust.  It was frustrating.  It’s not the marks that were the issue, it’s the dust,  and when I finally came to put the screen on.  There was dust.  About 6 little bits that now, make air bubbles which bothers me immensely.  I’m going to try the second protector shortly.

The stylus is also somewhat disappointing.  It feels more like writing with lipstick (as that’s how small the pen is).  It also has this rubber bubble at the end for writing which is obviously to prevent scratching, but takes away from the writing feel of it.  A bit more research found that all stylus pens are like this and so me wanting to replace my writing pad for this tablet have taken a bit of a back step.

for my friend whose dislikes his android phone’s vibrate function. http://bit.ly/jifcNA