[rbarooah]

Except that we know why the iPad resolution hasn't changed:

1. There are 65,000 apps tuned to work with it, so a minor bump to 'compete' on specs would make the user experience worse.

2. We know they are going to double it to 'retina' levels when they can. If motorola want to follow that approach, it's going to be longer before a double size panel is available.

3. The Xoom has an aspect ration that is better for playing a small subset of HD videos, but is worse for using in portrait 'magazine' orientation. It's not actually better for a lot of users.

I'm not even sure where the idea that they are behind the Xoom spec-wise is coming from.

[bostonpete]

> I'm not even sure where the idea that they are behind the Xoom spec-wise is coming from.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's another side to this argument, but the article explicitly lists where the XOOM exceeds to ipad2:

- higher resolution

- superior cameras (w/flash)

- stereo speakers

- upgradeable to 4G

- micro-USB/SD Card reader

- probably more RAM (author suggests it may be double)

[orangecat]

We know they are going to double it to 'retina' levels when they can. If motorola want to follow that approach

They don't need to. The iOS development environment encourages you to use absolute pixel layouts, so a minor resolution increase would break lots of apps. Android uses layout managers that scale better to arbitrary screen sizes. Most existing Android apps will run fine on the Xoom, although certainly many can be improved with tablet-specific interfaces.

The Xoom has an aspect ration that is better for playing a small subset of HD videos, but is worse for using in portrait 'magazine' orientation. It's not actually better for a lot of users.

It still has more vertical pixels than the iPad. Completely agreed on the aspect ratio in general, it's ridiculous that it's almost impossible to find a laptop without a 16:9 display other than from Apple.