Motorola XOOM to finally get 4G LTE upgrade starting in September

By on Jul 27, 2011 at 7:50 AM
Tablets July 27, 2011

Motorola will finally make a 4G LTE upgrade available to owners of its XOOM tablet beginning in September. The tablet ships with an embedded EV-DO modem for 3G connectivity on Verizon Wireless’ network out of the box, but Motorola had promised that an upgrade to 4G LTE would become available this past May. Motorola has not been clear on the cause of the delay, but the company began sending emails to XOOM owners telling them to expect the update in September. Applying the 4G LTE upgrade requires that a new modem replace the old one in the XOOM, and Motorola will need customers to ship their tablets out for up to a week in order to have the upgrade applied. The process will be free of charge for XOOM owners.

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  • Natethegreat

    about stinkin time!!

  • http://twitter.com/mtpflyers Michael Panetta

    You just have to send it in for 3-4 weeks to get the process complete… :-/

    • CD1090

      Would you rather a highschool grad part time Verizon kid do it for you in store?

  • Bringit

    whaaa whaaa whaaa I am an Android whiny bitch and there are too many too many Apple articles in here. BGR sucks Apple’s dick.  whaaa whaa whaaa.

    oh wait.

    this is yet another Android thread.

    that means Android bitch people will not post in here.  They only like Apple threads. 

    • Anonymous

      ‘Wat ju talkin about WILLIS!?’

  • JR Messina

    I am glad to see the upgrade late then never however the bigger issue is the lack of SD support.
    I know the WiFi has the update but us 3g owners are still left out to dry.

  • Anonymous

    Does anyone even own one of these pieces of crap? Android will be dead in two years.  true story™©®

    • CD1090

      I own one and sold 3 of them just by showing it to people in a restaurant. True story. 

  • Anonymous

    Thankfully only people whose parents are brother and sister actually bought these retard boxes.

    • Anonymous

      Hey, does it count if your father is your uncle and then, you find out, your mother is your other uncle; cuz’, I’m pretty sure Scroaty-poo-pooo aka Scroat aka Mobile aka PAPINYC iMpersonator bought one. You know, he’s on the serious dl’.

  • Blueethernov13

    what?? you have to send your tablet out to get it upgraded??? that ridiculous…

    • CD1090

      You want to do it yourself? Or let a highschool grad Verizon employee do it?

  • Anonymous

    I just paid $22.87 for an iPad2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $675 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, GrabPenny.com

  • http://www.frontsidebus.net David – Front Side Bus

    I wonder how this will effect sales. i think there may have been a spike if they would have been able to get it out before the LTE Galaxy tab 10.1, but now I’m not so sure.

  • Anonymous

    I love how they acted like it was 4g when they released it… and now the poor bitches that bought that shit, are gonna have to hard reset their devices and send em in to have them updated… suckers… motorola caught you grabbing your ankles and went in for the deep 6. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Eric-Kroh/509408139 Eric Kroh

    Xoom2 will be much lighter and better IMHO

  • Anonymous

    Note to self- Don’t early adopt Android products, especially from Motorola

    Android will be fine, but G1 owners could have told you to stay away from the first release…

    • CD1090

      You ever heard of the original Droid? You must be new.

      • Anonymous

        You ever heard of the G1? The first Android phone to market? It came out a year before the Droid and was the beta Android device. By the time the Droid came out, Android had matured quite a bit.

        You must me new.

  • CD1090

    Cause of the delay? Verizon. You all know that right, it’s obvious. But what happens if they blame Verizon? Verizon bails on Moto and leaves them high and dry, so therefore not an option.

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