14 DAY TRIAL // The Motorola XOOM has definitely made some steps in the right direction, what with updates and price cuts, and it looks like Verizon has just made the latest such move, or will do so in short order.
The tale of the Morotola XOOM tablet is one that was fraught with difficulty and has still not reached a conclusion.
Though it was one of the first ARM-powered Android tablets to start selling outright, it was not as well received as it could have been.
The main reason was the fairly big price, which went beyond even the $800 mark in the early days and only later fell, eventually striking the same area as the iPad ($499).
Either way, Motorola pressed on and kept improving the product, delivering improved versions of the operating systems, once Google finalized them at least.
It is this very type of software update that Verizon has now started to deliver to owners of the XOOM 3G, much like the WiFi version got its own last month.
Users can go to this page if they wish to get fully acquainted with exactly what moving on to Android 3.2 implies though the sum of it is expanded memory card support, the ability to “zoom to fill screen” for those apps that aren't optimized for tablet use and an improvement to the movie rental system.
All in all, customers will have to sacrifice only 15.4 MB of their XOOM's storage for the update and, though an exact release date has not been mentioned, some expect the update process to start at any moment.
For those that want a reminder, the XOOM is powered by NVIDIA's Tegra 2 SoC (system-on-chip) platform and features a 10.1-inch LCD screen 1,280 x 800 pixels.
The tablet also boasts a 2 megapixel webcam on the front and a 5 megapixel one at the back, plus adaptive lighting, a gyroscope, an accelerometer, barometer and an e-compass.