Motorola XOOM LTE Upgrades Right Around the Corner

Motorola and Verizon are about to kick off the upgrades to 4G LTE for all of the Motorola XOOM tablet PCs available on the wireless carrier's network, some of the latest reports on the matter suggest.

No official release date has been made available for the time being, but it seems that the carrier is gearing up for kicking off the pilot update phase for its XOOM users, and that this might happen as soon as next week.

Motorola XOOM, the first tablet PC in the world to include the Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system, arrived at Verizon Wireless with a 4G LTE chip inside, but an inactive one.

The device was launched in January, and Verizon promised at the time that it would upgrade it to enable the LTE connectivity capability, and it seems that things might be finally on their way to become reality.

The first LTE tablet PC at Verizon comes with a dual-core application processor and with a large 10.1-inch touchscreen display, which will certainly provide users with a great experience when paired with great connectivity capabilities.

However, as announced back in early 2011, the update will not be performed by users, but by Motorola and Verizon employees.

This means that users will have to send their devices to the wireless carrier to be upgraded, and will enjoy the new feature only after receiving it back.

As soon as the update is ready, users will receive an email with all the necessary instructions on what they would need to do, accompanied by a pre-paid FedEx box for shipping the device to Motorola's headquarters.

The entire process should take around three business days, so Motorola XOOM users should know that they will be without their devices for this amount of time.

Users will also have to back-up all data on their devices before proceeding, so that no important files they might have there are lost during the upgrade.

During the said three days, users will be able to track their devices through Motorola's website here.