Xoom memory card slot to be enabled soon -- in Europe

[RockdaMan]

Motorola quickly jumped in after the XOOM release and said support for this memory card slot would be coming soon. That didn’t happen, even with the recent major upgrade to Android 3.1 that rolled out. XOOM owners were surprised to find the SD slot still didn’t work after this big system update.

Months later comes word from Motorola in Europe that an update to enable this dead hardware will finally be rolling out for XOOM owners, but only outside the U. S. The SD card fix will be part of the Honeycomb 3.1 update for non-US XOOMs. No word when the U. S. models will get the fix, and no word from Motorola explaining why the 3.1 update in the U. S. didn’t include the fix as will the non-US update.

So you’re wondering why this bothers me, not even owning a XOOM? Because it is symptomatic of the problem with Android in general, that the platform is totally fragmented due to no one company taking ownership of it as a platform. Google certainly doesn’t, and OEMs can’t. The end result is that Android tablet makers end up not competing with the iPad, the logical target, but rather with each other.

He's an Android fan, not an iBoy.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-new...-platform/3003

[BenjaminJames]

Why do you insist on constantly beating down on android. We KNOW you are an apple guy but it doesn't mean you have to constantly troll the android forum