When is 4G and sd card updates coming??

[chefmike67]

OK guys I need a little update on when this device will be completed. I have it now but I need the SD card storage, and really want the 4G

Mike

[#2]

Obviously, Verizon has announced neither.

[chefmike67]

Not knowing is really getting to me

[#4]

That's silly. They will do it when they do it. In the mean time, the Xoom works perfectly on 3G. The 4G network is nothing but problems.

[Jim_Kirk]

chefmike67,

Not much but here's some information from the Motorola forum.  Bottom line attitude is we'll tell you when we feel like it.

 https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/48618

-Jim

[#6]

As it should be.

[AraceliT_VZW]

Thank you all for your replies. Currently the date for the update is not available but you can sign up for email alerts by going to:

http://www.verizonwireless.com/Xoom4GLTEUpgrade

Thank you,

AraceliT

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[dxrren]

This is **bleep**.  Releasing half baked products and charging premium prices for them and then not giving us a timeline of implementation of the fixes.  I returned mine.  Waiting for the complete package and then I might buy again.

[rcschnoor]

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dxrren wrote:

This is **bleep**.  Releasing half baked products and charging premium prices for them and then not giving us a timeline of implementation of the fixes.  I returned mine.  Waiting for the complete package and then I might buy again.

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Why buy a product that you can't use AS IS? THAT is idiotic. The Xoom is a perfectly capable product currently in its configuration. Yes, it will most likely be better after the 4G upgrade, but if you are only willing to use it at that point, WHY would you purchase it NOW? If you would only use it WHEN and IF you had a specific date for the upgrade, WHY would you purchase it NOW?

Releasing what YOU consider half baked products is one thing. These products are functioning devices that are quite useful, more so than anything else out there. PURCHASING a product that YOU consider to be half-baked, well whose fault is that?

[dxrren]

Lets not defend them now.  Yes it is my fault for buying a half baked product and I returned it.  Lets not pat Moto and VZ on the back for this one.  Good product that isnt finished.  Enough said.

[rcschnoor]

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dxrren wrote:

Lets not defend them now.  Yes it is my fault for buying a half baked product and I returned it.  Lets not pat Moto and VZ on the back for this one.  Good product that isnt finished.  Enough said.

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I'm not defending them. I didn't buy a Xoom. I have an iPad. I will have a Xoom when and if it is already 4G, but I'm not going to go out and purchase it just so that I have to send it back to them to have it upgraded to 4G. I am going to wait UNTIL it is already 4G when I pick it up.

Do you think that Verizon would have released the Xoom already if the vast majority of consumers thought as I did? I can tell you one thing, if Verizon released the Xoom and it just sat on the shelves because it wasn't 4G compatible, that 4G upgrade would become available PRETTY QUICK?

They do these things because the public wants them. You have no one to blame but yourself.

You don't want half-baked products, DON'T PURCHASE HALF-BAKED PRODUCTS.

Just because I don't want a Xoom until it is 4G capable, I also don't blame Verizon/Motorola for releasing a product that is (I assume) a hot seller AS IS.

[#12]

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dxrren wrote:

This is **bleep**.  Releasing half baked products and charging premium prices for them and then not giving us a timeline of implementation of the fixes.  I returned mine.  Waiting for the complete package and then I might buy again.

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No, your post is **bleep**. The Xoom works perfectly fine as a 3G device as it is currently being sold. It will be even better as a 4G device. Verizon is under no obligation to tell you anything.

[dxrren]

Those replys were so funny I **bleep** near **bleep** myself.  Thanks everyone.  LOL.

[wags41]

That is baloney,

They advertise the product, they imply it will have these services and then they don't have the courtesy to give those of us who purchased the product a time line as to when it will be available. It is bad business and I am very disappointed with Verizon for implying that this product will be 4g shortly after release and 4 months later still no 4 g.

How about I advertise an imaginary product called the STEVE. It does everything that the IPAD does and more and it will have a free upgrade to allow you to time travel to a time in the future when the motorola xoom will be 4g.

[rcschnoor]

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wags41 wrote:

That is baloney,

They advertise the product, they imply it will have these services and then they don't have the courtesy to give those of us who purchased the product a time line as to when it will be available. It is bad business and I am very disappointed with Verizon for implying that this product will be 4g shortly after release and 4 months later still no 4 g.

How about I advertise an imaginary product called the STEVE. It does everything that the IPAD does and more and it will have a free upgrade to allow you to time travel to a time in the future when the motorola xoom will be 4g.

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If 4G was so important to you, WHY DIDN'T YOU WAIT TO PURCHASE THE XOOM UNTIL IT WAS ALREADY 4G?

As to your exaggerations, seeing that it is currently April 25, 2011, how do you figure a product that was released on Feb 24, 2011 has been out for 4 months.

OH NO!!!!!! This item has been out for 2 months and it hasn't been upgraded yet???? That must mean that Verizon/Motorola have scrapped their plans to upgrade the Xoom to 4G!!!!!!

Maybe by using your product called the STEVE, you may see that the Xoom upgrade has been released by the time it has been out for 4 months! And if it hasn't, that still means nothing and that Motorola can still upgrade the device.

[dave_flagg]

rcschnoor:  OK so now we are just about at that 4 month mark where you predict it will have been upgraded. oops. oh but you caveat that it doesn't matter some how. Not sure how you justify that. And to think this would pretty much be a moot point if they would just tell us something, ANYTHING! Like, sorry guys it wll be another 60 days or sorry guys we are not going to be able to do it. All of us have invested a lot of money in this and some of it was based on promises made by a huge corporation (VZW). VZW took my money and gave me a device that works fairly well but promised to upgrade both the radio and turn on the SD card. Don't tell me to complain to Mot or google, i didn't pay either of them for this, only VZW. They need to learn to communicate. even a little bit would be better than total silence. If I decided that I didn't want to tell my customer bad news based on a delay or an issue that turned out to be harder to solve than originally thought and just ignored their calls how long do you think i would have customers? And the fact that some of these issues are caused by a hardware vendor other than me doesn't matter one bit. they pay me for the system so they expect me to manage my vendors. grow up. thats how business works.

[21stNow]

I'll join the party!  Come on Motorola, give us the update.  I spent the weekend loading up my SD card in anticipation.  Then my SD card told me it was all filled up with nowhere to go.   I had to break out one of my old cell phones to put my SD card in so that it wouldn't feel bad.  However, it would love a 10.1 inch playground to show off its music on. *Cough* XOOM *Cough*

[rcschnoor]

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dave_flagg wrote:

rcschnoor:  OK so now we are just about at that 4 month mark where you predict it will have been upgraded. oops. oh but you caveat that it doesn't matter some how. Not sure how you justify that. And to think this would pretty much be a moot point if they would just tell us something, ANYTHING! Like, sorry guys it wll be another 60 days or sorry guys we are not going to be able to do it. All of us have invested a lot of money in this and some of it was based on promises made by a huge corporation (VZW). VZW took my money and gave me a device that works fairly well but promised to upgrade both the radio and turn on the SD card. Don't tell me to complain to Mot or google, i didn't pay either of them for this, only VZW. They need to learn to communicate. even a little bit would be better than total silence. If I decided that I didn't want to tell my customer bad news based on a delay or an issue that turned out to be harder to solve than originally thought and just ignored their calls how long do you think i would have customers? And the fact that some of these issues are caused by a hardware vendor other than me doesn't matter one bit. they pay me for the system so they expect me to manage my vendors. grow up. thats how business works.

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I'd like you to show me where I predicted that it would be upgraded by the 4 month mark. I believe that I said that you MAY see that it would have been upgraded by 4 months only because you had said that it had already been out for 4 months. YOUR time frame, not mine.

Justify what? I seem to have missed where Motorola listed the date that they would upgrade the Xoom to 4G by, but since you say that Motorola owes you the update by some date, they must have guaranteed that date when you made your purchase. I would ask for a refund since you were obviously guaranteed the upgrades by a certain date.

Wait, was it Verizon or Motorola that made the promise that the Xoom would be upgradable to 4G? Oh yeah, it was Motorola! You say that you paid Verizon and not Motorola, well WHEN you ship the Xoom back for the upgrade, you will be shipping it to Motorola, not Verizon.

[reallyniceguy]

Ok , dont give me 4g since I mostly use wifi. But PLEASE give me SD CARD option.... CMON MOTOROLA and Verizon!

[21stNow]

I want to know how the rumored XOOM 4G that's coming out will affect our ability to update our current XOOMs.  It seems like we will suffer for being early adopters.

[glocker]

http://shop.verizonwireless.com/?id=Samsung%20Galaxy%20Tab%2010,  and no word on the Xoom LTE upgrade.  2Q ends tomorrow and Xooms outside of the US are getting sd card support with 3.1.