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It's perhaps worth noting that Motorola has a rather dismal track record when it comes to updating their Android products. The Droid doesn't have 2.3, the Miles
by TillE 16y ago
It's perhaps worth noting that Motorola has a rather dismal track record when it comes to updating their Android products. The Droid doesn't have 2.3, the Milestone still doesn't have 2.2 -- and those were their flagship products.
If the Xoom is open and hackable, go nuts. I'm sure people will create good custom ROMs (just don't expect any official ones beyond 3.1 or so). If it's locked down like the Milestone, I'd stay far far away.
- mquander 16y agoThree points: 1) There's no proprietary Motorola UI layer on top of Honeycomb in this instance, in contrast to their Android 2.X phones. So one might expect updates to be more prompt if updating said UI layer is a big bottleneck for their other products. 2) It's my understanding that Google folks working on Honeycomb have been using the Xoom as their reference device, so they might be inclined to make sure that it can keep up with their OS updates. 3) The Xoom bootloader isn't locked down, which is a good start.