Google
and Motorola may have forgotten about the Motorola Xoom Tablet, which was
launched in Thursday February 10th 2011 as detailed on my blog article entitled
“Motorola
Xoom and Honeycomb - Tablet Evolution in Stormy Weather”, but the XDA Developers haven't.
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With
its 3rd anniversary having long past in February 2015 or coming up,
depending on which dates you’re working with, XDA Developers have been busy releasing
updates for this rather dated piece of Tablet hardware as noted in the article “Motorola
XOOM gets unofficial Android 4.4 update (near its 3rd birthday)”, published
01/02/2014 at 4:45 PM by Brad Linder, Lilliputian.
The
Motorola
Xoom, which currently can be purchased on Amazon for US$379, first made its
debut back at CES (Computer Electronics show) 2011 as detailed in Kelroy's Geezam blog article entitled “Motorola Xoom
tablet poised to shine”.
Motorola Xoom Tablet –
Apple contender that failed due to pricing and a lack of Google Android Apps
Back
then we had high hopes for the Tablet as it prepared to go head-to-head with
the Apple iPad, which had just launched in earlier in 2010.
It
had a 10" 1280 x 800 pixel display and was powered by a Dual-Core NVIDIA
Tegra 2 Processor, which preceded the Nvidia Tegra 3 codenamed Kal-el as
described in my Geezam blog article
entitled “Nvidia
and the Quad-Core Kal-El CPU – Android leaves A5 Dual-Core Processor in the
Dust”.
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It
boasted 1GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage, which back then in 2011 was considered
the cutting edge at least for Tablets.
So
much so that I did my own blog article touting the technological advantages of
hen then pristine Motorola
Xoom, which included the ability to tell the weather due to a built in
Barometer as noted in my blog article entitled
“Motorola
Xoom and Honeycomb - Tablet Evolution in Stormy Weather”.
Motorola Xoom gets
second life thanks to XDA Developers – Happy Birthday to the Motorola Xoom
But
alas, many a blunder, including the high price tag of US$799 for what was then
a new product and no Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n) model alternative as noted in my Geezam blog article entitled “Motorola
Xoom – 101 on How to Beat the Apple iPad” meant that this produce was dead
before 2011 was over.
It
got subsequent updates to keep it up to par with the rollouts of3G and 4G LTE Internet,
but the hardware has basically remained the same.
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So
it's nice to see the XDA Developers
still pushing the limits of this tablet, which has now been updated to run the
latest version of Google Android, that being Google Android 4.4.2 KitKat as
noted in the article “Motorola
Xoom Still Alive and Kicking, Receives Functional KitKat”, published Jan 2,
2014 at 03:00 am by Will Verduzco, XDA
Developers.
If
you still held on to yours, thanks to the XDA Developers, you can now update it
to Google Android 4.4.2 KitKat to allow you dated Tablet to support immersive
apps, wireless printing and cloud storage.
Happy
Birthday Motorola
Xoom....I still believe in your ultimate potential, as there room for more
Tablets in the world as predicted by the analysts Gartner and IDC in my blog article
entitled “IDC
Stats suggest Tablet Freefall in 2015 – How to sell Tablets using built-in
Keyboards and Carrier Unlocked SIM Cards”.
Here’s
the link:
XDA Developers Twitter Feed: @xdadevelopers
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