Ipad 2 vs. motorola xoom

I decided to buy the new motorola xoom while waiting for my ipad 2, which is not slated to even ship until april 24. Just wondering if anyone has both and can offer an honest comparison between the two? One thing I have noticed is when I call motorola with a question, they don't even ask for a serial number for tech support, they just help you solve your problem. That is curious. I like having the inputs and outputs, but that is not a major point for me. I have read that the ipad screen is brighter. Any comments are welcome. I am a long time apple person, by the way and have only had macs since way back in 1988, when I had a Mac SE, so I am not a troll. I do love gadgets though.
thanks in advance,
Joe

jazzhand wrote:
I decided to buy the new motorola xoom while waiting for my ipad 2, which is not slated to even ship until april 24. Just wondering if anyone has both and can offer an honest comparison between the two? One thing I have noticed is when I call motorola with a question, they don't even ask for a serial number for tech support, they just help you solve your problem. That is curious. I like having the inputs and outputs, but that is not a major point for me. I have read that the ipad screen is brighter. Any comments are welcome. I am a long time apple person, by the way and have only had macs since way back in 1988, when I had a Mac SE, so I am not a troll. I do love gadgets though.
thanks in advance,
Joe
Joe,
While I don't own a Xoom, I have an eLocity A7 tablet that is based on the exact Nvidia Tegra 2 Dual Core processor as well as the first generation Apple iPad. There are key advantages to owning an Android tablet versus the iPad.
One reason is the ability to use Flash. I believe the new Flash 10.2 is available for Honeycomb and Froyo devices. I am running a modified Dexter ver 1.41 Froyo 2.2 ROM with Adobe Flash 10.2 on my eLocity A7 and while people here talk about Flash as being a video thing which you can do with HTML 5, there are instances that forms, multi-media photographic and financial websites that use Flash for graphs, charts, research info and photographs. If you need these abilities to access those sites, you WILL NOT BE able to do this with an iPad 2 period. Not even Skyfire will come to your rescue! This is one reason I had to have an Android tablet to go with my business trip complementing my iPad and the Kensington bluetooth keyboard.
So my advice to you is to check all your sites to ensure that they do not need Flash.
Now granted that there are apps available for the iPad that provides the workaround, but for what I use, the workaround was totally useless and painfully slow.
Having said that, the iPad 2 is a more polished product compared to Honeycomb. A lot of people had said that some apps crash on the Xoom. This is to be expected as there aren't a lot of apps available specifically for tablets and for that matter this new Dual Core processor. This is one of the frustrating aspects owning an Android tablet I find.
As for Malware stuff on Android devices. That's only pertaining to phones and tablets that's rooted out of the box and given some supervisory role on apps. If you are at that level, then you are a hacker and if you get infected; then well it is your problem and choice! Don't blame on some devices. My Android tablet comes rooted out of the box and I installed a non-factory Dexter ROM to provide great functionality compared to stock; but that is my choice and I accept all of the consequences. But then again,
there are people with iPhones and iPads who jailbroke them and get problems downloading un-approved applications other than the App store from Apple.
If you want a well polished device with a good amount of well established apps, I vote for the iPad 2. However, if you need Flash more than 30 to 50% of the time, then the Xoom is your choice and then you need to be wise in populating with the apps you need to use.
Hope this helps.

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