Motorola Xoom launches without Flash support

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http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/21/m...february-24th/

Looks like we both caught this at the same time. I found it on Verizon's site
which makes it pretty official.

Well i get mine thursday & i was hoping i could go to the market & use the current version of flash until 10.2 comes out..my dell streak 7 ran flash beautifully..hope that works.

I can not forsee that working. If it was that easy why would it not already me included. I am sure we will get support at some point but Google and Motorola are releasing a high end tablet and are doing so handicapped.

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Relax, it will be updated

Just enjoy your web browsing experience without Flash for a while .... :P

Or you can "skin" your Xoom to look like an iPad for that ... LOL!

Just kidding.

I am not worry though about this Flash thing.

I more worry about the promised SD card support.

now i think somewhat of the "i am a apple, i am a pc" commercial
where the xoom is represented by a crippled guy.

just sad motorola your tablet sounds more and more "promising"
guess im going to wait for the HTC or other competition what they bring

I'm sorry, but they just shot themselves in the foot. Zero flash support on release and its expected sometime this spring? I'm done, I'm no longer picking this up. No flash is one of the main reasons I hate my ipad, I'm not going to drop more money on something just to wait for an update.

My older android phone has flash, but not the newer honeycomb wielding tablet?

WTF

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvzsq...e_gdata_player

It clearly says in this video that Flash Player 10.1 will work. Also, I got to play with a preproduction xoom from the Motorola Rep at my AT&T store a week or two ago (what a nice guy, right?). He said it did run Flash 10.1 but it wasn't currently on the device because the unit had no access to the marketplace. I believe in this case, Moto/Vzn is referring to Flash 10.2.

Originally Posted by Sirchuk

I'm sorry, but they just shot themselves in the foot. Zero flash support on release and its expected sometime this spring? I'm done, I'm no longer picking this up. No flash is one of the main reasons I hate my ipad, I'm not going to drop more money on something just to wait for an update.

My older android phone has flash, but not the newer honeycomb wielding tablet?

WTF

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Honeycomb is geared towards tablets, so maybe some apks won't load properly on Honeycomb as they would Froyo or Gingerbread. Plus, Motorola is pretty good at keeping their higher end products updated. It's not like they've refused flash now.

But I myself don't understand why there is no flash support for Honeycomb. Some apps like Launcher Pro, and ADW push okay with Honeycomb as far as I know, so I don't see why Flash wouldn't. Maybe it has something to do with Flash 10.2.

Originally Posted by tlkid064

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvzsq...e_gdata_player

It clearly says in this video that Flash Player 10.1 will work. Also, I got to play with a preproduction xoom from the Motorola Rep at my AT&T store a week or two ago (what a nice guy, right?). He said it did run Flash 10.1 but it wasn't currently on the device because the unit had no access to the marketplace. I believe in this case, Moto/Vzn is referring to Flash 10.2.

No one has support for 10.2 under Android right now. Plus that ad is directly from Verizon that popped up in the early morning, where as that video is from about a month ago. It's not lying really, the hardware supports flash. But flash isn't available. Could be something like they thought it would be ready by release, but Motorola and Verizon have kept pushing the release date of the Xoom more and more.

It brings to mind the cliq, they kept promising an update to it over and over and over, then after several months of lower and lower sales they just dropped it and canceled the update. Leaving all the customers that listened to them high and dry.

I can totally see this with the xoom, especially with the already high price.

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