Motorola XOOM Family Edition Available For $379 At Best Buy

Just moments after the news about the early arrival of XOOM family edition was revealed,the tablet has already gone under the hammer & is available at Best Buy for a reported $379.This Family edition comes with  16GB internal memory along with a dual core processor with XOOM Wi-fi.In addition there also appears to be pre-loaded apps whose valued can be estimated at $40 which are mostly kid oriented from Zoodles  along with some security features including QuickOffice HD & a few apps from Motorola Moto Pack.Some of the tablet features include:

• Runs on Android 3.1, built specifically for tablets 
• 1GHz dual-core processor for lightning-fast responsiveness
• 10.1" HS IPS HD screen display with capacitive multi-touch
• 5MP back camera with flash, with 720p video webcam
• Preloaded with almost $40 worth of applications, plus Zoodles™, the award-winning Kid Mode application
• Preloaded with MotoPack by Motorola XOOM (App Downloader by Motorola)
• ·Preloaded with Quickoffice™ Pro HD for seamless productivity at work
• Preloaded with MotoPrint – the application that allows you to print straight from the Web browser
• Preloaded with fun games like Asphalt 6 from Gameloft and SIM City Deluxe
• 16GB built-in memory
• Battery lasts up to 10 hours for video playback and Web browsing
• Access to more than 250,000 apps in Android Market™ & More

The Tablet is available Exclusively at Best Buy only for now & will go on sale on October 16th Sunday.Don't forget.

Motorola Xoom Family Edition Unveiled Way Before Schedule

Just after XOOM had under went the significant hardware upgrade where a 4G radio was installed in the hardware there by enabling it to go for 4G LTE services apart from many other bug fixes.Now the XOOM family edition has apparently hit the screen which is way before its scheduled release date.Already there are some accessories of XOOM family available which indicates that we can expect the boxed version to hit the market pretty soon.Although Motorola hasn't made any announcement in this regard,I expect the phone to be available on October 16th just as a pre-fire for the Motorola Verizon event on October 18th.

Motorola Xoom 4G Before & After OTA update

                                        After a wait of 7 months,the XOOM users finally received information regarding the upgrades needed to enable 4G LTE in XOOM.But unfortunately not all of them have received their transformed 4G device yet from Motorola & the wait is literally killing them.For the lucky ones who got it back,you must have noticed some new features in your 4G device now.If you didn't receive the over the air(OTA) update as of now,you can expect to receive it once your power up the device.Verizon has officially announced this update & also enclosed the details regarding the changes & bug fixes.Also the Android Market has been made available in the HoneyComb Os & you can actually verify whether it has been implemented or not.

                                                      Apart from the inclusion of a 4G radio device,XOOM has been updated to the Android 3.2.1 Codenamed HoneyComb with a build of HLK75D,the latest.There are some other new features like Auto market updates,usual bug fixes along with the connectivity issues.Some of the highlights of the updates are:

• Android Market has been updated for HoneyComb.
• Android Book Apps updated.
• Android Market terms & conditions are now more readable & the font has been improved.
• When toggling between Airplane Mode, you will no longer receive the following error message: “Wrong Operator: SIM card is from an unknown source.”
• After performing an (OTA) update, the Android Market shortcut on the homescreen works correctly.
• Auto Update of the Android Market.

Web Browsing Updates:

• Improved security feature to ensure protection against rogue/fake certificates.
• Enhancements to 3G/4G data connectivity to prevent data stalls & more.

   Now that they have resolved most of the issues & upgraded the connectivity to 4G,it would be interesting to know how the user experience has been.Can anyone share your experience?

Motorola XOOM 4G LTE Upgrades Delayed:Still In Progress

After a wait of 7 months,the Verizon XOOM users finally received information regarding the upgrades needed to enable 4G LTE in XOOM.But when Motorola's promised that the upgraded device will be returned to the users within 6 Business days,it seems that the users had to wait a bit longer than that with some of them yet to receive it only after 14 days as per the email received.The following mail excerpt was made available:

Dear Michael,
We wanted to let you know that we are still in the process of completing your upgrade. We apologize for the delay and will send you an additional notification once the device has shipped early this week.
Sincerely,
Motorola Mobility Customer Services
We will let you know if we received additional details.

 To be honest I anticipated this to happen.When Motorola announced that there will be hardware upgrade to the XOOM device it obviously meant that device had to be shipped to Motorola & even though with the mediocre sale of the XOOM device,its amazing its taking so long to open up the device & change the hardware & ship it back.