Earlier today, we heard Verizon had come to its senses and it had originally attached to Motorola's new Honeycomb tablet. Up till this morning, Big Red had said you'd have to sign up for at least a month of 3G service to get a Xoom, even if you only wanted to use Wi-Fi -- a catch that would've cost you an extra 55 bucks at checkout. Thankfully, that condition is history.

Now, I'm happy to confirm that another potential pitfall for the has been averted: The tablet is untainted by Verizon's typically unavoidable bloatware.

That, my friends, is a mobile miracle.

Plenty of us have been plagued by -- you know, the crap the carrier loves to load up on its phones and make difficult for us users to uninstall. Devices like the Droid X are packed with junk like Visual Voicemail (a less-good, subscription-based version of ), VZ Navigator (a less-good, subscription-based version of ), and random services like Amazon MP3 and Blockbuster that you may or may not actually want. It's a way for Verizon to make extra money, of course, but from a user perspective, it's incredibly obnoxious.