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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 5602282" data-attributes="member: 7883">I've seen that commercial though, and there's lots of debate as to whether that's for a Xoom 2 or a Xoom 2 slightly updated for Verizon 4G?  There was the issue where it came out for one network, people payed a premium to have it upgradeable to 4G, and have waited since March, and now it's being announced for another carrier, with 4G, and all the people waiting for the upgrade are feeling like they've been taken advantage of.Seeing the frustration of the Xoom owners online is a big reason I've held back...because otherwise, the hardware does seem pretty nice.  Feels more solid than the iPad 2.I've heard that Honeycomb apps are starting to fill in the marketplace a bit also.IMO, it would be a PR disaster for them to start selling an actual Xoom 2 when the Xoom 1 customers are still waiting for promised functionality.I definitely understand the American customers not having the micro SD.  But they've at least had 3.1, whereas customers outside of the U.S. don't even have that.  Plus, Google Movies and a bunch of other services are also disabled.I understand the CRTC's goal of protecting local production of programming etc.  Due to the fact we're 10% of the size of the U.S., if we didn't have any protection, we could say goodbye to any kind of Canadian production....but it's still annoying, because it also allows us to be gouged, and for the "old guard" to cripple innovators like Netflix when they try to come up here.What's suspicious about the whole thing with Xoom updates, however, is why companies like ASUS can simultaneously update all their customers, worldwide, in one shot, whereas Motorola has to wait months to handle customers outside of the U.S.Banshee</blockquote>

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