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speg said:
Damn you guys!! I was going to the Ars article that last night before bed but I didn't get around to it.

But yeah, all reviews had been not so hot and Ars has pretty much put the nail in that coffin.
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ARS has it about right, Moto should have done a limited release to developers, not consumers, then released the consumer version in a few months, hardcore Android lovers would have been fine with waiting for the bugs to be worked out rather than have a working train wreck.
 
So OP returned his XOOM and couldn't get on anymore or something?

Anyway, got more hands-on time with a XOOM today. Decided to check out some of the classic Android faults, with the assumption that they should be gone by now. Guess what?



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XDA-Developers forums were slow and laggy before, on every single Android version. But Honeycomb took it to a higher level when scrolling on the page would literally freeze the tablet and make it re-render the segment... tile by tile. And since it doesn't keep the previous tiles, guess what happens? Scrolling to another segment freezes it again.

Wow... just wow. And I thought they fixed that. But no.

This is just inexcusable... Even my Samsung Captivate phone scrolls that website a lot faster than the XOOM. If XDA-Developers doesn't work right, a number of technical forums and sites that I go to automatically go right out of the window, and that means advanced CSS and Javascript are no go. Good going, Google, Motorola.
 
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Xoom is to pricey imo, but I don't agree that the iPad is easier to use. iOS has fallen behind the competition imo. There's some new things that Apple is doing to spruce it up which look nice.
 
I'm still here. I returned xoom but plan to get a wifi one when released. I picked up the knew iPad today. Typing on it right now but havent used it yet. As it stands niw I still say android is better. Sure its buggy, but nothingness perfect
 
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