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Maybe you thought the Motorola Xoom would be devoid of -- or dare we
say, spared from -- a coat of Motoblur. Being the inaugural Honeycomb
device, you'd expect Google to keep the tablet as vanilla as possible
(e.g. G1, Nexus One, Nexus S). Indeed, Android's director of
engineering Dave Burke tells CNET UK that Xoom is a flagship product
for Mountain View, but in the same reported meeting, Motorola's
Jonathan Nattrass said Motoblur will be coming to the tablet as a
software update. In what form? We don't know, but if we had to guess,
it's gonna be much more isolated that previous devices -- special
widgets, perhaps, and services for backup or tracking a lost slate.
Let's play wait-and-see on this one, at least until the top bar gets a
cartoonish blue aesthetic.
Update: Motorola reached out to Phandroid to say that, yes, this is a
"Google Experience Device" and as such, you should expect the platform
and UI to be Google's. Doesn't exactly explain where Nattrass got his
talking points, but for now let's call it a strong rebuttal and move
on. Certainly we'll have a clearer picture once we can actually try
Xoom / Honeycomb out for ourselves.
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