{"id":1163,"date":"2011-04-24T21:56:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T04:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2011-04-24T21:56:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T04:56:38","slug":"motorola-xoom-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/motorola-xoom-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorola Xoom Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I knew after seeing this years CES coverage that I was going to get an Android tablet. There are a lot of times that need to quickly check my email or want to look up a web site while on the couch and getting out a is overkill. For a task that will only take a couple minutes I don’t want to wait for a laptop to boot up.\u00a0 Sure, I could get a really fast laptop with a SSD in it but I don’t need that powerful of a laptop for anything else.\u00a0 So, a tablet is a fit for my current situation.\u00a0 So, after reading up on all the upcoming tablets I decided to get the Motorola Xoom.<\/a> I thought about waiting for Asus’ Transformer with the optional keyboard, but I just don’t see using the keyboard that often.\u00a0 While the extra battery life it adds with the keyboard seems nice I already have a laptop that I don’t want to use. Plus the USA release date on the Transformer had not been set when I picked up my Xoom.<\/p>\n

I’ve never had an Android device before but I love it.\u00a0 Both the device and Android as a whole.\u00a0 I’ve been using the Xoom for a couple weeks now and while it is not perfect it is great.\u00a0 It fits my needs and does so well.\u00a0 Because it is still fairly new there are only a limited number of tablet formatted apps available but more and getting added daily, and I’ve not had an issue finding ones that fit what I need so far.\u00a0 Sure, there are a ton more apps on the iPad, but then I’m stuck with an iPad and its very locked down platform.\u00a0 No thanks.<\/p>\n

It is kind of funny to me that I don’t play more games on the Xoom.\u00a0 I fully expected to be gaming on it more, but I actually find myself using it more as a tool for getting tasks done and keeping up to date in emails than as a gaming platform.\u00a0 Sure, I’m gaming on it, but more than that I’ve got a useful calendar and to do list that is always handy.<\/p>\n

Half the fun so far has been customizing everything to be exactly how I want it … that day. I’ve gone though a ton of layouts, wallpapers, and widgets so far and I’m looking forward to doing it more.\u00a0 I’m getting to the point where I have most of the setup how I like it but I doubt I ever quit tweaking things. Plus with new widgets and apps getting optimized for Android tablets there is always something new to play with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I knew after seeing this years CES coverage that I was going to get an Android tablet. There are a lot of times that need to quickly check my email or want to look up a web site while on the couch and getting out a is overkill. For a task that will only take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[94],"tags":[207,7],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-web","tag-motorola-xoom","tag-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}