Motorola Officially Released Details for Android 3.1 for Xoom

[dgstorm]

Today Motorola officially announced Android 3.1 for the Xoom that we heard about at Google I/O yesterday. They released the following details of the update:

• Support for the new Android Market movie rentals service with thousands of titles available for immediate viewing on the Motorola XOOM’s high-resolution display or on a larger screen via HDMI
• Full support for the final release of Adobe® Flash® Player 10.2, delivering significant performance enhancements when viewing rich Flash content on the web
• Resizable widgets to enable further customization of home screens
• Support for USB-connected peripherals and accessories, such as keyboards, mice, game controllers and digital cameras
• Expanded Bluetooth features to support Bluetooth headsets in Google Talk™ video chats and Bluetooth mouse support in addition to additional shortcut keys with the Bluetooth keyboard
• Picture Transfer Protocol Feature support to enable easier transfer of photo files to your PC without the need for drivers

Motorola indicated that the rollout of this update will occur throughout the week for the Verizon version first, and the WiFi only and other variants will receive it in the next few weeks.

Source: AndroidTablets.net via AndroidCentral

 

[Dusty]

Ahem. Hey Motorola...

*** Whistles and points to SD card slot ***

 

[bazar6]

Guess we'll all have to patient.. Hope the Devs can work it so we can stay rooted but still update

 

[jntdroid]

Guess we'll all have to patient.. Hope the Devs can work it so we can stay rooted but still update

P3Droid
"I have posted directions on how I manually went from rooted 3.0.1 to rooted 3.1 on my Xoom How to manually update your Xoom to 3.1 from 3.0.1 let me know how it goes."

 

[bazar6]

Thanks for the guide... I'm on a Wifi Xoom tho, thought I heard HRJ37 was for 3G Xooms

 

[jntdroid]

Thanks for the guide... I'm on a Wifi Xoom tho, thought I heard HRJ37 was for 3G Xooms

oh ok, my bad - I don't know much about the Xoom system

 

[bazar6]

It's all good no worries.. I appreciate the help, I'll be checking back there to see if he posts a wifi version as well