Both Motorola's hardware and Google's new software are impressive and, after testing it for about a week, I believe the Xoom beats the first-generation iPad in certain respects, though it lags in others. Like the iPad, the Xoom has a roomy inch screen, and it's about the same thickness and weight as the iPad, albeit narrower and longer.
And, like the iPad's operating system, Honeycomb gives software the ability to make good use of that screen real estate, with apps that are more computer-like than those on a smartphone.
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You may cancel your subscription at anytime by calling Customer Service. Skip to Main Content Skip to Search. The resulting expansion potential is lacking in the iPad 1 and the iPad 2. Of the models I looked at, notifications were best on Android 3. The Honeycomb interface puts its notifications bar at the bottom right, where it unobtrusively informs you of new e-mail messages, new OS or software updates for example, Pulse reader notifies you when new content is available , and completed downloads.
New messages pop up there and then disappear. Tapping on the bar expands the notifications so that you can view them all. The same notifications bar shows time, connection status, and battery life; and you get more details plus one-tap access to settings when you tap to expand the bar.
It provides notifications via a pop-up window that interrupts and disrupts your other activities. But if you get one for AIM for example , dismiss it, and then get another one for AIM, it will pop up over whatever your current activity is each time, requiring you to take action in order to return to your activity. On the other hand, you get no notifications of new e-mail messages: To get those you must go to your e-mail app.
The Galaxy Tab runs Android 2. The answer depends, in part, on your shopping habits and on how you use your tablet. Android 3. On the other hand, Android 3. If you have an iPod or iPhone, and you shop at iTunes, the iPad is a no-brainer for its seamless integration with the iTunes Store shown here. At the moment, Google lacks anything comparable, though I can imagine Google deciding to sell music Google Music is already a reoccurring rumor and videos through its Market.
But Media Hub purchases are usable only with Samsung Media Hub devices, including Samsung mobile phones and televisions.
No currently available tablet makes managing your files easy. But the Xoom is the best bet right now. You can download content from the Web browser, like a.
The winner: A tie. Although iPad fans may find the Android OS too loosey-goosey and its ever-present alerts annoying, Android fans may find the iPad a bit too rigid and disconnected from what's going on. To each his own; both work. Deathmatch: Security and management A long-standing strike against the Android OS is its poor security.
By contrast, with the enhancements made in iOS 4 , the iPad has become one of the most securable mobile devices available, second only to the RIM BlackBerry.
Motorola Mobility recognized that deficiency and has added on-device encryption. My only beef is that it takes an hour to encrypt the device when you enable that capability by contrast, the Motorola Atrix smartphone requires no time at all to enable encryption.
Fortunately, it's a one-time activity. The Xoom doesn't go much further than standard Android in its support of EAS policies, so if your business requires complicated passwords with timeouts and history restrictions, you'll face the same issues as with other Android smartphones.
If your Xoom is lost or stolen, you can lock or wipe it via your Google account or via Exchange. Strangely, the Xoom doesn't come with the handy service Motorola Mobility provides its Atrix users to track a lost or stolen device and lock it or wipe its contents remotely.
Apple also supports remote lock and wipe; you even get the free Find My iPad service to track your iPad's location from a Web browser, iPhone, iPod Touch, or other iPad, and disable or wipe the device if you want. The Xoom's Android OS can back up contact, calendar, and email data wirelessly to Gmail, as well as system settings and application data to Google's servers.
Syncing the iPad to your computer's iTunes also backs up the data and encrypts it, if you desire without requiring MobileMe. The winner: The iPad, without question. The Xoom has brought in a key business security capability encryption but hasn't gone as far as needed by most businesses in its EAS support -- a surprise, given that the Motorola Mobility Atrix released around the same time has those capabilities.
Deathmatch: Hardware Although the real value of a tablet comes from its OS and apps, you can't get to them without the hardware they run on. Note that some of the hardware advantages of the Xoom will be erased by the arrival of the iPad 2 on March The new iPad will sport a dual-core A5 chip that in my cursory use of a prototype iPad 2 this week does noticeably speed the iPad 2's browser at least. It will also support 3G tethering, another feature present in Xoom but lacking in the original iPad.
Despite the Xoom's second core, I didn't find it any faster than the iPad in terms of how apps ran or any smoother in terms of how videos played. I did find that the Xoom usually received emails and updated its calendar slightly after the iPad, even though both were connected to the same Wi-Fi network and pulling from the same IMAP, Google, and Exchange servers. For battery performance, I found that the iPad lasted nearly twice as long as the Xoom -- 9 or 10 hours versus the Xoom's 5 or 6 -- in regular use with Wi-Fi enabled.
In light use, the Xoom stretched to 8 hours, while the iPad ran 11 hours. Device hardware. The iPad's enclosure design featuring glass and aluminum is much classier than the Xoom's black blockiness. The iPad's aluminum, though, can feel dangerously slippery I always keep it in a sleeve or case , whereas the textured plastic of the Xoom is more grippable.
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