The Motorola Xoom is also the first Android 3.0 tablet to hit the market, a tablet-optimized version of the popular smartphone OS. Google integrated in Android 3.0 some nifty multitasking features and widgets, which impressed reviewers. PCWorld's Melissa J. Perenson details . Although Android has moved onto tablets, it doesn't mean applications have migrated too. Apple has thousands of iPad apps, while Android has yet to catch up with tablet-optimized apps (read close to none).

Half Baked?

Adobe Flash is notoriously absent from Apple's iOS products, and its existence on non-Apple products should have bridged the application number gap between the two OSs. Unfortunately for Motorola, Flash won't arrive on the Xoom until , which means the tablet can't even view its own website right now.

Motorola also promises free upgrades to the 3G radio inside the Xoom (to Verizon 4G). Unfortunately, again, this will be available some , and you will have to send your Xoom in to Motorola for six days for the upgrade. In addition, it appears that the SD slot on the Xoom (another advantage over the iPad) , due to a reported issue with Android 3.0.

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