So I took the plunge, now I have a few Q's...

[Kalavere]

Hey folks, so I found a Xoom I could buy instore today and after having a brief play with it I bought one for £479. I've been at home with it for a few hours now and I can't decide if I am happy with it. I'm not trying to start another 'lets slag the Xoom off thread', It's all totally stock at the moment, I haven't rooted or OC'd. I've just got a few questions to ask...

The screen isn't fantastic that's for sure and I get a lot of ghosting, I asume this is common place in Xooms? Also I am getting MAJOR lag when I use any live wallpapers, the tablet just stammers though, no menu transition is smooth coming into or away from the homescreen, also going into the app drawer with just a normal static picture I get a really choppy transtion back and forth, is this normal?

I was expecting the tablet to be a beast with a dual core CPU and a decent GPU. I know it's a new OS, so I am asuming when Google rolls out the updates things are going to be further optimized for Honeycomb and we can expect an all together smoother experience?

 

[RadDudeTommy]

if you haven't yet, turn your xoom off then back on. That should fix at least the app drawer with a static picture. Some live wallpapers lad my screen and make it choppy, yet some don't.

 

[filipelima]

Unfortunately the screen is also something I get a little worried too, also would like to know about the sound... what do you guys think... is it good?

Im also about to take the plunge, after being almos certain I would get an Asus Transformer... after seeing it side to side with the Xoom and the Acer Iconia... the Xoom takes the cake in design and size. Ill always love the Asus... but I think that bezel is just too much... and the plastic back :-( ....aswell as only 1.2mp front camera and so far only a 16gb model.

...also I think the Xoom will be more supported by the dev community, and being a dev myself lets go!

 

[Kalavere]

The sound is very, very good in my opinion. I was very impressed when I first played a video in YouTube. What's not so impressive is the lag the whole device seems to suffer from, especially web browsers, I get FCs from the stock browser and it's slow to scroll, and I mean slow I get good one and two second response delays when scrolling and the screen judders everywhere. It's the same with Dolphin HD and Miren Browser. It's almost like the processor is running at 100% while the web browser is open, my Desire runs Dolphin Browser HD (my stock web browser) flawlessly why can't the Xoom? This is surely software related?

I'm not hapy with the idea of having to overclock my Xoom to 1.5Ghz to get it to run as I would expect it to at stock clocks.

 

[tumbes20000]

The sound is quite impressive inmy opinion. Quality is great and pretty high volume without any distortion.

I don't have too much trouble with the stock browser. At least not any more than my laptop. My guess is that the browser is not the most efficient code at the moment and proabably does not take advantage of both cores.

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[Kalavere]

I take it there is no word from Moto/Google of the SD update? I guess it'll come with various fixes and optimizations.