Being a developer device, the Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi has the enviable luxury of getting first dibs on the latest Android updates as soon as they get released. The tablet got its first taste of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich at the start of the year but it looks like it beat everybody, Samsung Galaxy Nexus included, in the race for the 4.0.4 version of the Android operating system.
As the update is being rolled out via OTA, a notification should pop up on your Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi heralding the availability of the Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich update on the tablet. If you have no plans of waiting for the notification to come up, you have the option of manually checking for the update yourself. According to the early adopters who already managed to get their Motorola Xooms updated to the latest ICS version, the update is seen as something more of an incremental upgrade because it only brings a couple of enhancements to the tablet. Sad to say, no new major features are included in the update though.
As for the improvements the Android 4.0.4 Cs update brings to the Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi, these enhancements include faster screen rotation when changing from portrait to landscape and vice versa. In addition to that, the default email app of the tablet now has better Exchange support while the camera department of the Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi will now be able to perform better in terms of capturing stills and recording videos. The update also brings to the Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi a couple of bug fixes to ensure the stability of the tablet. Lastly, you also get a new Setting options that enables you to put in place a delay of the lockscreen after the Power button is pressed.
This Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich update ought to make the Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi even more capable that it already is and we have the specs sheet of the tablet coming right up to prove our point. The tablet is no longer a spring chicken having made its debut in the shelves in March of 2011. It is a bit bulky and hefty with its dimensions of 249.1 x 167.8 x 12.9 mm and it weighs in at 730 grams. Despite that, the solid build quality of the tablet is very apparent. Under the hood, the Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi relies on its NVIDIA Tegra 2 T20 chipset to power its operations while a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor with a clock speed of 1GHz and full gigabyte from a RAM deliver the required computing power of the tablet.
It comes with an expandable 16GB of internal memory while its TFT display measuring 10.1 inches diagonally has a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. It also comes with a dual-shooter configuration with a 5MP autofocus camera with dual-LED flash at the back joined by a 2MP webcam out front. The rear shooter of the Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi can also record 720p clips at 30 frames per second once its video mode is toggled.
