[Xoom General] richardjr:
Just a few things I have noticed while using the Xoom.

Overall l have enjoyed the experience, with a few caveats.

1. I have had several force closes, but usually only on apps that are for mobile, usally if a mobile app is not going to work it will never work, in other words not random, some times though an app will work if started in the portrait position rather than landscape. Some force closes will be random, again on the mobile apps most of all, but be cleared buy a reboot. Most average users will never notice the problems I have, but I like to screw with things and push the technology by 10 tenths, I'm evil.

2. I had orb working for a little while with the andro orb free AP (the regulation orb app never worked), but now it refuses to load video or audio and even when it did run I would not call the video quality, "watchable", I think that loading one of the additional players might have killed it. It seems that honeycomb has not worked all the hooks for opening files with another program, I have been sure that I could open certain types of streaming content with the players I have loaded, but android will not pull up the option menu for me to select the proper program.

3. I have heard it is possible to side load flash without the update, but haven't seen a guide on how to accomplish this, this could potentially allow you to open Orb content via the browser, and I have heard with better results (Heard of it on the Nexus).

4. Audio Galaxy has been one of the few bright points with streaming content, works flawlessly, and it is the only player that I have found will continue to play content after the Xoom has been suspended, I have not however tried the built in audio player, I am trying to avoid loading media content and work straight by stream.

5. I have used 2 seperate RDP programs and while both worked I have to say I prefer remote RDP light over Pocket cloud.

6. Used my first bitorrent client (wifi), the first one I tried did not work, but aDownloader worked great, seemed to give me an error at first (flashed up to fast for me to see it), but completed the download no problem.

7. Games, well, hit and miss, again some of the games built for mobile just forced closed right off the bat, but at least one, laberynth 3D worked but the accelerometer was back words, huh, others worked but the game controlls were to close to some of the xooms soft buttons and would either pause the game when hit or just close out. I have installed an SNES emulator Snesoid, and it worked fairly well, the dpad positioning was off, but workable, and in some respects made holding the Xoom easier while playing (controls at opposite corners), but I still need to get used to playing Snes games on a tablet, might be just because it has been a couple of years.

7A. Android games well, I have to say overall I am highly impressed with the graphics of some of these newer games, but man they are hard to control, some the movement action are so fast that I feel like I am constantly moving in circles to accomplish even simple tasks, that is not fun, I imagine that someone will come up with a proper bluetooh controller, maybe even from a keyboard enabled cell phone (bluetooth), until then some of us "oldsters" might be a bit hard pressed to enjoy the full functionality offered by the Tegra 2.

8. Email, while this tablet was specifically designed by a company that, hello, does email, I have come across a few problems with file types either not being recognised or again, not "hooking" to the proper programs already installed.

Overall like I said, I like what I see, and most of the stuff that I have problems with seems to be primarily software issues, and hence fixable. The streaming issues are the most anoying, I have a lot of content on my home PC and have no desire to move, convert, or otherwise replicate material I already have in one usable format, I work in the networking field with training in cloud infrastructure, data is data, I want a convenient platform to access the data I already have, from any device, from anywhere, that is the ideal, but I have to live in reality.