Motorola Xoom
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- pillhead0
I always thought the Iphone killed the Ipad.
- set0
I thought sense and reason coupled with logic and financial sensibility killed the ipad
- atomholc0
I was excited about getting one today until I started it up and have had nothing but trouble :( ... this only gives you a taste of my disappointment.
- akrok0
who's going to tell them? it's zoom, not xoom.
- fadein110
@brodster - LOL - Apple did not invent the tablet... muppet
- bananana0
i tried a friend's xoom, and it crashed a bunch of times and the UI was not very intuitive.. and I use an Android phone.
Overall, not as impressed as I thought I would be with it.
- mg330
I just got done having a conversation with a coworker about his HTC Droid or Samsung whatever-the-hell phone with a slide-out physical keyboard, and without trying to sound like an Apple fanboy, I simply asked him "Isn't it kind of telling that Apple basically release one phone every year or so, and it works, and people are satisfied for years, while every other phone maker is constantly revealing something with a new name, new design, new software, etc. all in a frantic effort just to know it will be totally replaced at some point?"
Of course he got all defensive and said "I know so many people who have Apple stuff that craps out."
I guess I look at it this way: Apple always seems to be aiming to make THIS product the best, and competitors are always looking to make their NEXT product the best. I've used a handful of other phones in mobile site testing that I do, and I'm never impressed. They all seem lacking and wonky and just don't operate with the finesse that an iphone does. It should be interesting to see how the Xoom does.
- What? LMAO. You don't want to be an apple fanboy? You're a fan boy. Only iphones work?VikingKingEleven
- everyone else has screwed up because iphones are so great? LMAOVikingKingEleven
- Apple makes brilliant marketing. Something I don't think you have realized.VikingKingEleven
- go$ damn that is hilarious.VikingKingEleven
- "I simply asked him "Isn't it kind of telling that Apple basically release one phone every year or so, and it works, and people are satisfied for years, "VikingKingEleven
- LMAOVikingKingEleven
- satisfied for years,VikingKingEleven
- LMAOVikingKingEleven
- ya like your hand covering the antenna?VikingKingEleven
- or in large groups of people the iphone service goes out.VikingKingEleven
- LMAO Fan Boy. Satisfied for years. Best thing i read all morningVikingKingEleven
- haha - I knew this would razz you guys up.mg33
- How old are you Viking? Jesus, android fanboys are really stupid in here. Can't hear otherESKEMA
- opinions. It's getting pretty lame and boring.ESKEMA
- it seems no-one can have a thought out pro-apple opinion without being a fanboy these days...inteliboy
- mg330
What I'm saying is, I find the user experience on other phones to be less than satisfactory to me personally. Yes, Apple's marketing is fantastic and plenty of us buy into it, but my point is, the iPhone has generally been the same since the initial release with consistent hardware and software improvements. But it's still generally the same: touch screen, OS, pretty much the same form factor. In contrast, I feel like there are competing smartphones being released all the time only to be replaced by something much different. I'd never suggest that other phones don't work - that's idiotic to suggest. And what I mean by "satisfied for years" is that the iPhone in general meets my needs just fine. The improvements along the way are always great, but nothing is prompting me and many other people to say "well, the new version sucks, I'm going to try out whatever Samsung have. Thin line between fanboy-ism and brand loyalty, but I have yet to need a competing mobile phone because a) I am satisfied with the iPhone, and b) I'm not that impressed by competing phones and the feeling that they are very temporary and quickly replaced.
- fyoucher10
I have an iPad, they crash and get hung up as well. Especially if you click on those frickin iAds. I think the hardware can't really handle HTML5 animated content. I'm on the 1st gen iPad though, not sure about iPad 2.
I think this is probably the case with all tablets right now. All this tech is new and will probably get better in a couple of years. It's just like 1999 when people were creating websites and pushing limits of the hardware. Desktops back then could barely handle it but a few years down the road they were fine. Same thing will happen with tablets.
- Peter0
A "killer" doesn't need the killer label, especially prior to release.
If it's killing then the sales figures will do the talking.Personally I can hardly wait until slates/pads/screens have a regular OS running on them. Whichever OS it may be.
Is it really that hard to be able to put something together that could
- let you run a presentation with the pad as your remote/assistant?
- let you handle files normally?
- run excel, etc, under normal conditions?- Except this time it actually kills people.abettertomorrow
- In that case I'll take twoPeter
- 74LEO0
I love democrats and stimulating american competition. the more competition here the better economy will get.
- formed0
Nothing will compete with Apple until:
#1 - companies suck it up and offer a product at least cost. Catch up costs, you can't bring (Xoom) to market at a premium
#2 - marketing and presentation has to be good. The first Xoom ads were good, this last one with a guy in a stupid space ship is going to alienate a lot of people.
#3 - on top of #2, there needs to be a great experience. I walk into Best Buy and Apple has this amazing display, all working examples. I walk over to look for the Xoom and find a non working, single example stuck where a cell phone once was (more or less). Same with the Galaxy.
I tried, I waited, and didn't want to support Apple's boycott of Flash. BUT, at the end of the day, I want a polished/professional product that I can use to show projects to clients.
I bought my second Apple product last week with the iPad 2.
Wake up competition, you are loosing people that started as anti-apple people and are open to new products.
- abettertomorrow0
I wonder if the popularity of Android has actually made it harder for companies to differentiate strongly vs Apple. Instead of investing in their own software platform, everyone is using the same OS. This helps them get to market quickly, but then there's this sense of "just another" Android phone/tablet...
- scarabin0
ipad killer? it was barely alive to begin with
- BattleAxe0
My brother got one and had a chance to mess with it over the weekend , having had iPad 1 , can't say that anything popped out
browsing some similar sites I noticed the iPad would recognize video on web pages better (ex: ESPN) the Xoom did not recognize the video on the page
task killer is missing , I would check the task manager and all task would still be running even after going into settings and killing them one by one a bit annoying
I like the grid you get for Icon placement and customizing your screens seems a bit more elaborate then on the iPad , battery life was so so vs Ipad
I am still running 3.2 iOS(ipad 1) so I have no folders yet , have not updated since my Mac was a company laptop that I had to turn in
will mess around with it some more as we are trying to publish some Unity stuff on it
going to add some videos to it for some presentations , etc so more to report later