User guide for Motorola XOOM leaked

Interesting POV.

He is jealous. DROID is so open and free. I love the app stealing ability and widgets that some times work. I may never get updates with this stuff but I know I can sell my DROID devices for about half what I paid and get some money to by the newest latest and greatest every two weeks. iFans are so funny. They will get higher resell for their iCrap. I don’t understand it.

Yeah, $800 for something that only works half the time. No thank you or should I say ” force close”

Android. If your going to praise the the OS might as well get it right buddy, it’s like an apple fan calling the iPod touch an itouch.. Wow

“but I know I can sell my DROID devices for about half what I paid”

One side of that argument is that Apple products hold their value better…and the other side of that argument is that there is a sucker born every minute.

@Bigbudha Really? Half the time? First off, have you personally used The Xoom/3.0 or any Android device? epically ones that run vanilla Android? Most times I’ve seen anyone with problems it’s normally caused but a cheesy launcher Sammy or some other 3rd Party has stuck on.I’m not here to say Android is perfect, but it does WORK. And not just “Half the time”. Are you really so convoluted to think some thing so popular would only have a 50% reliability rate? (In reference to Android not Xoom since I have not used it) It’s rhetoric, pure and simple rhetoric passed down on to you without any real experienced. I agree that 800 is out of my price range but this isn’t something that my life NEEDS. It’s called a luxury! There will be a Wi-Fi version. It will be cheaper. I will be getting that.

@Omnifire: A “plain vanilla” Android device? Let’s count them: The G1, the Nexus One and the Nexus S. End list. Even the G2 has interface elements which are exclusive to that device. I own a Nexus One, and know that the plain Android OS is pretty good, but since Google allows both manufacturer and carrier to adulterate their work (have you SEEN all the crapware on AT&T and Verizon Android devices, stuff that can’t be deleted?), most Android owners don’t have a clue what “plain vanilla” is.

This is the place where some idiot chirps up that rooting the phone solves the problem, but it shouldn’t be necessary for anyone to have to lobotomize their phone and reload an OS just to get a reliable, workable solution. It is in this area that the iPhone and iPad do so well, because the results are predictable from device to device. What many folks decry as Apple’s “closed system” and “obsession with control” provides a reliable device, free from the changes the carrier would make in order to squeeze a few more bucks out of your transaction (since AT&T gets paid by other companies to tattoo that company’s application or software on the phone you just bought). In addition, Xoom’s creator, Motorola, has one of the worst records in updating the Android phones it has sold to promised newer versions of Android OS. I would have to think long and hard about trusting Moto after being burned once already.

I love my Nexus One and like the Android OS (Froyo for me at this point) very much, but the folks who boast that Android is superior don’t seem to be able to get past their dislike of Apple in order to view things objectively. Android frequently loses it superiority once the carrier and manufacturer screw it up with code which prevents a timely update to the next iteration of the OS. The Wifi version of the Xoom better be superior in every way to the iPad 2 (and be equal in price to the presumed $499 of the entry-level iPad) or else it is doomed before it is released.

@GeoKaplan, I for one didn’t mention anything in most post about the amount of vanilla android. I’m not debating that fact. There SHOULD be more (plus you forgot the original DROID). I will have to assume the fact you even mentioned Apple was directed at someone else, cause I never compared Android to Apple in anyway. Matter of fact I even said “Android is not perfect”. My reply was simply about it’s reliability is NOT 50%. Thats totally bias rhetoric. Also, I don’t know where you got that Moto is the worse at upgrading their devices. Didn’t the recent numbers show they were second only to HTC in the frequency and speed of updates? Are you aware that Sammy S phones are JUST now getting 2.2? See I don’t have a problem with the iPhone and other iDevices. The offer what they advertise. But what I don’t like is their iron fist control. Basically, I don’t like someone else telling me whats appropriate and whats not. I don’t like someone deciding what information gets to me and what information doesn’t. To me Apple is on a short slope to censorship and I don’t believe in that. But do I say there is no merit to their product and dismiss it as garbage? NO. I buy something else, that fits my needs, and my way of thinking. And once again, I didn’t bring up Apple. I just responded to it.

Also @GeoKaplan, You do realize that the iPad that is $499 is the 16gb version right? You know the Xoom has 32gb right? Do you know how much the 32gb Wi-Fi version of the iPad costs? better yet did you realize that 3g iPad is only $70 less then the Xoom with comparable memory?

DROID is so open and free. You can steal apps so much easier. I love it.

I hope your ability to steal something isn’t the only reasoning behind your motivation to buy a product. Android is a solid OS without that feature

Thanks CB, I was expecting that too, but still not charging via USB is a disappointment for me, that will not prevent me to purchase this beautifull XOOM this time, but soon will prevent future purchases of electronic gadgets.
Europeam Commission recently decided to standardize USB chargers for hand-held devices for good reasons. I already have # 10 different proprieritary chargers in my home, for multiple devices. Because I’m lazy I let them connected to the power when not changing anything during the day, and they un-effectively consume power. If all that could move to industry standard USB charging, it would save tons of chargers and money and power at the end, mechanically. Hence my point that continuing with proprieritary chargers is BAD.