Comments on: What makes Motorola’s Xoom 2 tablet better than Xoom?

By: Gavlar

Gavlar — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:16:47 +0000

what a useless article! at least get someone to research what they are going to write about! obviously an ipad 2 lover yet the xoom 2′s hardware beats it in every way!

By: Anguel

Anguel — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:38:28 +0000

I don’t really get your point why they should not release new hardware now and just make sure that it will get upgraded as soon as Android 4 has been ported. Which other tablet is that much better than the Xoom / Xoom 2 in the same price range? Asus? Acer?

By: bob

bob — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:39:52 +0000

Who gave this guy a pen?

By: max

max — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:54:44 +0000

hi,

but the point is to know if XOOM 1 will be able to work with the maxStylus technology. On the atmel site, they focus on the “E” maxTouch technology. the mXT1386 runs a lot of tablets (XOOM, ICONIA….). Does it work with the stylus ?

BLa question reste de savoir si la XOOM 1 pourra fonctionner avec le nouveau stylet ( technologie MaxStylus). Sur le site ATMEL, ils precisent la compatibilité avec les controleurs MaxTouch serie E. Rien ne précisent si le controleur mXT1368 armant de nombreuses tablettes actuelles (iconia, xoom), pourra faire fonctionner ce stylet ?

By: Matthew Renoux

Matthew Renoux — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:07:36 +0000

Anyone who has trouble using honeycomb 3.2 has no business doing tech reviews. That being said, these don’t offer a significant improvement on the original Xoom. The learning curve on a mobile os is about a week and a half; how long will you have the device? Even so, a flashlight is easier to use than an ipad, does that make it better? Windows has an immense software library, why leave our windows PC’s? We should really be trying to put windows on a flashlight!!! Unfortunately, that would fall short too because the competition is to see who can build the best ipad.

By: John Harrington, Jr.

John Harrington, Jr. — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:33:56 +0000

Here’s a great side-by-side comparison http://bit.ly/ipad2vsXoom

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:21:25 +0000

I’m a Xoom owner. Every review I’ve seen of the original Xoom mentioned what it was like out the box, with no updates taken in to account.
With easy to understand system updates, the US xoom is now on 3.2, which is a long way from where 3.0 started. Speed, battery life, and most importantly, decent apps have made the experience much better.
All that being said, the Xoom 2 is not exactly much of an upgrade – lighter, and .2ghz faster doesn’t do much to excite.
Honeycomb is good, but the apps (or lack thereof) is where the iPad beats the android tabs. Moto need to do what Sony have done: put their money where their mouth is and invest in the creation of new apps.
The hardware is largely irrelevant at this stage – the apps are where this battle is being won and lost.

By: trollaikman8

trollaikman8 — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:42:02 +0000

What a mess. The iPad2 still beats this in just about every category.

By: Mike Cerm

Mike Cerm — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:06:53 +0000

It doesn’t matter whether they wait for Ice Cream Sandwich or not. When Google said they would “unify smartphones and tablets”, what they meant was that they’d bring a lot of Honeycomb’s bad ideas to the phone. Since those bad ideas are already in Honeycomb, the tablet version of Ice Cream Sandwich is going to be kind of like Honeycomb 2.0.

By: Jenna Gonzalez

Jenna Gonzalez — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:15:27 +0000

I’ve stopped wondering a long time ago. My gameplan is to stick to what works, let others have their cake (even if it’s a blatant mistake) andcontinue to foster good groundbreaking technology.