With my new excitement at not requiring my computer to use my tablet I
headed over to an Android App development forum. Here developers had
posted lots of cool apps that were in beta or that they wanted to
promote. On competing devices the only way to get an app is through the
sanctioned and controlled portal, not so on Android (and thus Xoom).
Using the Xoom browser I bounced around the forum, I downloaded beta
apps, and then I was able to easily install them. Again, this is all on
the device, and these were not approved apps, awesome.
Another
example of something that impressed me came on my third day with the
device. I was using the CNN app (which is free and tablet optimized, go
check it out) and I watched a video of a story that I thought was really
interesting, but it was one of those that is only a teaser, and the
rest is on another site. When I hit these videos on my iPad I just have
to try to remember to watch them later on a computer, because they are
inevitably flash based. Not so on the Xoom, I typed in the address, the
flash loaded up perfectly, and I was watching the video in full screen
with no trouble.
This process of growing more comfortable with
the device and learning what it could do continued over the last few
days. At every turn I would find something amazing that just wasn't
possible on competing tablets. I discovered the glory of widgets (custom
little desktop things to show you the weather, or news, or whatever). I
found some live wallpaper (moving animated wallpaper, that can change
and adapt to things, such as the weather). I just kept finding new
awesome features and uses.
One thing I want to touch on that is
perhaps more technical than the rest of my review is the screen. I use
my tablets to read, I started using ebooks a while back and I found
tablets to work pretty well for that. I do most of my reading at night
before bed, so the backlit screen is actually helpful versus a
traditional reader. Anyway, one of the things that has always bothered
me about the iPad as an ereader is that the pixel density (that is the
number of pixels (or square blocks of color) in each inch of screen
space) is very low. The iPad has somewhere around 130PPI (pixels per
inch). It was so low that it really did give me noticeable eye strain to
read on the device, I could see the pixels, and it really just wasn't a
great reading experience. This was so pronounced that for the last few
months I had actually been doing most of my reading on a 4th generation
iPod Touch. It had a smaller screen, but a higher pixel density.
Anyway,
the Xoom has a very noticeable increase in resolution and pixel
density. With its higher resolution it has roughly 33% more pixels than
the iPad, roughly 300,000 additional pixels. This is something you can
see immediately when looking at any text. It is a lot smoother and
easier to read on the Xoom. However, the other side of this is that the
iPad has a different display type, that does have better viewing angles
and color/contrast. In my case I don't really care, I find the pixel
density to be 1000 times more important than small color improvements or
viewing angles but I feel I should mention it.
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