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Hands-on Face-off: IPad 2 V Motorola Xoom

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-have-neither-one dept.

GMGruman writes "Is the iPad 2 all that it's cracked up to be? Or does the first Honeycomb Android tablet, the Xoom, still hold up? I spent an intense weekend comparing the two tablets, detailing in this review how each performs in a battery of tests."

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  1. Extra Extra! by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Xoom has features that the iPad doesn't. The iPad's UI is smoother than the inaugural Android 3 (Honeycomb) release. We needed 7 pages to tell us that??

    1. Re:Extra Extra! by znu · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Fortunately, you don't have to bother reading past the first page, because it contains a dead giveaway that the article is essentially just shallow filler content designed not to offend anyone.

      The iPad, with 60,000 + tablet-optimied apps, scores a nine for application support, while the Xoom, with a handful of tablet-optimized apps, scores an 8? Seriously? And all the arbitrarily chosen criteria are equally weighted? Meaningless nonsense.

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  2. Re:Only needed one page by coinreturn · · Score: 5, Insightful
    My take of that paragraph was completely different. Here's the money quote:

    "...but the number of tablet-specific apps in the Android Market has more than doubled in the past two weeks, from 16 to 37."

    You must be f@cking joking me. There are over 65K tablet-specific apps in the Apple app store. And this just nudges the iPad one point over the Xoom? Pfft. Butt-kissing "deathmatch" refuses to piss off either manufacturer by intentionally splitting the final score by a measly 5% difference.