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Originally Posted by petermillard
Cool, thanks for confirming; as time goes on I'm sure the kinks'll get ironed out e.g. The Amazon thing.
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They might have had better reviews and thus better sales if they had ironed the kinks out before releasing it...
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It’s packed with features and ideas that almost work extremely well if not for some damned-fool quirk that should have been eradicated early in the testing process.
Take the notification bar. Yup, I’m a fan. But its presence at the bottom edge of the screen makes it almost impossible to pick up or hold the XOOM by its longest edge without accidentally going to the Home screen, or bringing up a volume control, or exposing a notification. That’s a problem; you’re going to spend a lot of time shifting this pound-and-a-half device around in your hand.
Another thing about that widescreen display: when you hold the XOOM in its most natural orientation, vertical screen real estate is at a severe premium. And yet the notification bar will always eat up a half an inch of that space; you can’t “hide” it temporarily.
It’s even worse when you’re using the browser. The app’s layout — which you can’t reconfigure — includes a half an inch for the tab bar and a half an inch for the address bar. Throw in the notification bar and you’re left with a strip of screen the dimensions of a dollar bill for the actual webpage.
Details, details, details.
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And thats a positive review:
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The XOOM is a powerful, functional alternative to the iPad. It’s nicely-built, it’s fast, and it can fill the same sort the sort of role in your life as the iPad.
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http://www.suntimes.com/technology/i...e-to-ipad.html