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I recently bought a Xoom (since the Android Honeycomb emulator is unusable), and it's a laughably poor product from the unboxing experience all the way to the h
by foobarbazetc 16y ago
I recently bought a Xoom (since the Android Honeycomb emulator is unusable), and it's a laughably poor product from the unboxing experience all the way to the horrible UI that is Honeycomb (even worse than standard phone Android, and that's laughable UI -- where's the HIG, Google?).
Honeycomb is like taking the worst Linux WM you can find and sticking it onto a tablet with no thought for how a tablet should work. This is going to appeal to some Android fans, but that's about it.
Everything on this device is horrible. The device feels chunky and heavy, the screen looks dithered (you can see individual pixels) and unevenly lit, and you can see UI element flicker into place. And there are about 2 or 3 tablet specific apps that are actually tablet apps in the Market (Angry Birds, and some other poor quality Android games). ClockOS even lives on, with a dedicated clock on the home screen, and the bottom right corner, and there's even a 'Clock' app. Fantastic.
Oh, it also doesn't charge via USB. WTF?
Anyway, it has one thing going for it: it has Angry Birds and it works more or less like the iPad version of Angry Birds. That's about it.
- abrown28 16y agoI like my Xoom and those of us without super human vision think the display looks just fine. Not charging via the usb is annoying but not a deal killer for me. The apps will come eventually plus I can write my own apps if I want without having to shell out another $800. I have no love for apple.
- guelo 16y agoI own a Xoom, and while I agree it is nowhere near the iPad experience, the device is not THAT bad, your comment is way too harsh. There are 64 tablet specific apps. And you are lying about seeing individual pixels, it has a higher pixel density than the iPad, on par with an iPhone 3G.
- foobarbazetc 16y agoI'm not lying. I can see the dithering and have terrible eyesight. The pixel density may be higher than the iPad, but the screen quality is nowhere near it. And the device is that bad. What's with the system tray? And the Windows Vista style app switcher? It's like we've gone back in time to when Windows 95 was cool (and Honeycomb has a UI that is less consistent than Windows 95), except with tappable UI widgets. Maybe 4.0 will fix it all (ala how 2.0 brought Android into the 'usable' category), but this is not a tablet for anyone but nerds. '64 tablet specific apps' is being generous. Maybe the people developing these apps upped targetSdk and stuck in a poorly-recreated-fragment-API-using-thing-aka-UISplitViewController widget, but that's pretty much it. The rest are games that are available on iPad.