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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Update The most recent version of Android OS, version 4.0 (codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich ) has been released for Wi-Fi only Xooms in the US. 3G/4G Xoom users will have to wait another few weeks for their update to be released, but initial reviews of the update have been quite positive. Ice Cream Sandwich Logo To check if your Xoom has an update available, go to Settings - About Tablet and tap System Update The new features of Ice Cream Sandwich include: Updated Browser with faster rendering, zoom and pan - Users can also now save pages for offline reading and request desktop versions of websites. Swipe to dismiss notifications, tasks, and browser tabs - You can now dismiss individual notifications, apps from the Recent Apps list, and browser tabs with a simple swipe of a finger. Redesigned app launcher - In All Apps launcher, you can now simply drag an app to get information about it, immediately uninstall it, or disable a pre-installed app. New System Font for Improved Readability - An entirely new typeface (called Roboto) optimized for high resolution screens improves readability and brings a polished feel to the user interface. Updated People” Application - Replaces contacts and integrates seamlessly with Google+ and other Social networks. Improved text input and spell-checking - The keyboard now features improved accuracy to make text input faster. It also now includes an in-line spell checker to make corrections easier. Type with your voice - Now you can simply touch the microphone on the keyboard and start talking to write emails, SMS, or any other text—more than 20 languages supported. Text appears in real time, so there’s no waiting for server processing. Richer and versatile imaging capabilities - For capturing larger scenes, the camera introduces a single motion panorama mode. Also, you can now take still shots while shooting video just by tapping the screen as video continues to record. You can also launch camera directly from the Lockscreen. When you shoot videos, you can now choose from a number of silly faces and other fun effects which recognize individual facial features so you can give your friends big eyes, squeeze heads, make noses bigger, or change the scenery with background replacement. Redesigned Gallery app with photo editor - To help pictures look their best, the Gallery now offers a powerful photo editor so you can crop and rotate pictures, set levels, remove red eyes, add effects, and much more. Richer, resizable widgets - You can expand widgets to show more content, or shrink them to save space. You can receive the update over a Wi-Fi connection. If you are not connected via Wi-Fi, or your Motorola Xoom is off when the notification arrives, you will see the notification when you next connect to a Wi-Fi network. There is no charge for this update (other than any network data charges). GMX will post an update when the 3G/4G 4.0 update is available. Source Posted by Brandon Mulcahy at 10:22 AM 1 comments Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Tuesday, January 17, 2012 Xoom Miscellaneous Tips and Tricks Here is a small list of tips and tricks you may find useful while using your Xoom: If your Xoom ever locks up or freezes, you can force a restart on it by holding the power and volume up buttons at the same time. If you are browsing the internet in the stock browser and want to pull up your browser history, you can do so by long-pressing the back button in the lower left corner of the screen. If you want to quickly uninstall an application, long-press its icon in the app drawer, and drag the icon to the uninstall button that appears in the upper right of the screen. If you only want to kill an application, but leave it installed, you can drag it to the information icon (letter i with a circle around it) in the upper right corner instead. If your battery is running low, you can extend your remaining usable time by turning down the brightness of your screen. To, adjust brightness, tap the time in the lower right corner of the screen, and then tap the slider icon under the last digit of the pop up clock. Use the brightness slider to adjust. If you want to copy text, simply long-press on the text you want to copy until the copy bar comes up at the top of the screen and selection handles appear in the text. Drag the selection handles around until you get what you need highlighted, and then hit the copy button. If you want to adjust the amount of time your screen will stay on with no interaction before turning off, go to Settings - Screen and then tap Timeout . If you have any tips or tricks to share, leave them in the comments below, or email them in to xoom *at* enkosystems *dot* com Posted by Brandon Mulcahy at 12:47 PM 1 comments Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Tuesday, January 10, 2012 All About App Stores [Part 1] The Motorola Xoom is a powerful device with some great built in features, but its functionality quickly becomes limited without the ability to install additional software applications. These apps excel at helping users accomplish tasks or get entertainment value from their mobile devices. There are multiple options out there for app discovery and downloading, read on to find out about them! Finding and Downloading Apps Android Market Android Market is the official Android app store, owned by Google. It comes preloaded on many Android devices, including the Xoom. It is wildly popular – the download count from Android Market hit 10 billion in December 2011 – and it has more free apps than any other major app store, on any platform. There are a plethora of tablet-optimized apps (you can find tablet optimized apps by searching the Market for tablet optimized” without quotes) and many of the apps designed for phones work well on the tablet form factor. Android Market One of the great features of Android Market is that the apps you purchase are usable across all of your Android devices that are capable of running it. This is handy for users of multiple devices, or even just for getting apps back after an equipmentAndroid tablet version of Evernote Unfortunately, there is not a video tutorial for the tablet version of evernote, but the functionality is similar to the Android phone version. Evernote Android Phone Tutorial Video Evernote is available for free from the Android Market : Get Evernote via Android Market Posted by Brandon Mulcahy at 1:42 PM 0 comments Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Labels: 3G , 4G , Note Taking , Productivity , Wi-Fi Xoom Basic Operation The basic operation of your Motorola Xoom is something you will become familiar with rather quickly via experimentation. If, however, you would like a guided overview of some of the basic functionality, take a look at the following videos from Motorola. Using Your Tablet Using The Keypad Taking And Editing Pictures Using Video Chat feature Creating Google Documents Posted by Brandon Mulcahy at 10:27 AM 0 comments Email This BlogThis! 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