Liking the screen and size of it. It isn't as easy to transport as say, a Kindle. For example I can carry my Kindle in 1 hand and my 13 month old in the other, but trying that with the Xoom started to feel like a 1-way ticket to a call from Child Services. Still, it's quite light and feels very sturdy.
U r better off waiting at this point to see what the new Samsung 8.9 & 10.1, HP, RIM and Toshiba bring out over the next few months. 3.0 on the Xoom feels like too much of a Beta product. I would wait.
iPad2 is an amazing tablet and u will be satisfied with it. We are expecting the 4.3.1 jailbreak any day now, to allow for complete customization. Expect a bit of light bleed though. Seems to effect 90% or more of all iPads, including mine. But tbh, you will never notice it under normal use.
Fanboy? How do you know he'd be satisified with the ipad? I wouldn't be, after messing with one for days.
Personally, I'm LOVING my Xoom! My daughter as an ipad 2, and I'd take my xoom, even with its growing pains, over the app drawer/grid of icons ipad 2, any day. The ipad is a nice tablet, but it is NOT an end-all, everything tablet by a long shot.
Ty for the info because I am going to get a Xoom next month...
At first I was worried about the speaker placement and the sdcard not working thing, but I believe the sdcard thing will get fixed with time. And as for the speaker placement thing; I will be holding the Xoom most of the time I play games and listen to music and many times if I use it in public I will have earphones in anyway so it wont matter...
And sure, I like most are use to the android wake up/on/off button on the side and not the back, but I don't see this as a huge deal.
Oh, and before I forget:
I really don't think I'll mind the non-chargin via microUSB mainly because of the fact that; if I can get a full day of normal useage our of the the tablet just by using another charger I will gladly use another charger
Battery life is insane, its def not a problem charging non usb. I get around 11~ hours of on screen time (DISPLAY BEING ON) idle I'll lose like 1% every 5 hours(if that), its crazy!
Also, it charges REALLLLLY fast, I mean prob 20 times faster than my phone.. I don't know exactly how long it takes to charge but it feels like it charges 1% a minute. I love it.
edit: yesterday the display ON time was around 7 hours, unplugged for 16 hours and I was still at 30%. Thats very heavy usage... for one day, I normally don't even drop below 50% on a full day 6am-12am!
Wow, that is very good to here. I don't think I am going to regret my choice to go with Moto over Samsung this time.
I just bought an Ipad 2 this week (32gb wifi only) and while I like it, I miss the customization that my Evo has.
I'll probably stick with it until there's a android tablet that I really like. I messed around with a Xoom at a BB and I really like it. Only issue that really irked me is that split second time it takes for the screen to rotate. The Ipad does it instantly.
Also I have to agree with some of the reviews about the lack of apps. I know they're coming but there are just so many cool apps for the Ipad that I can see why so many people prefer the Ipad over Android.
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