Let me first address the fact that I work for such a company which is a leader in mobile devices. When it comes to mobile phone people still talk about them despite of so many rumors in the market and declining market share. But my post here today is not influenced by that fact anyway, neither I want to pretend something. I'm honestly writing my experience with these 2 devices and their OS'es from my extensive daily use.

I know comparing XOOM with N9 is just like comparing a Whale with a River Shark. Believe me I don't have another Android hand set of similar kind to compare. But I must tell you that despite of the price and HW spec that XOOM has, it still falling behind N9. Here it is how.

I had the opportunity to try N9 as a part of a Nokia internal program for testing. I'm using the device for almost 3 months now. Last Sunday I bought Motorola XOOM by spending almost 40K INR for my personal reason. But after using it almost for a week, I realized its not worth the price I paid for.

User Experience

1.0 Introduction

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That’s because open source software and the methodologies that accompany it have already been proven to be the chosen route for the vast majority of companies aiming to capitalise on the cloud phenomenon.

For evidence of this, you need look no further than the route companies such as Amazon, Google and Rackspace have taken in building out the massive datacentres they plan to begin selling capacity on in the coming years.

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