Monday, March 7, 2011

Motorola will upgrade your Xoom to 4G LTE -- even if you've rooted it

Happy news for Android tinkerers everywhere -- Motorola has officially confirmed it will attempt to perform its 4G upgrade on all Verizon Wireless-riding Xoom tablets it receives from users, whether they've been rooted, repainted, or accessorized with fluffy dice. Naturally, the company can't guarantee successful software updates on devices that have had their OS tweaked, so it asks users to be kind and rewind to the original firmware state. For those unwilling to stretch that far back, Moto will still give it a shot and says that it'll install the 4G LTE modem at a minimum. What a refreshingly open-minded attitude. Now if Moto could give us an open-minded bootloader on its phones as well, we'd be all set.

2 comments:

  1. s there any verizon product that lte actually works? Maybe LTE just sucks ass. Isnt it preventing the Thunderbolt beating released?

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  2. I'm wary about 4G. What about those issues with GPS? Has that been resolved? I have discussed this very briefly with people who deal with GPS a while ago and they indicated some 4G issues and that they may not be resolved.

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