Until then, we have a product that can’t view its own website. And people still ask, with a straight face, why Flash isn’t on iOS.

I was a bit annoyed when the Xoom was announced and I wasn’t able to view the website (not having Flash installed on my laptop).

For what it’s worth, both companies have marketed the Xoom’s ability to play Flash content as one of its advantages over the Apple iPad.

Bet you all the review for battery life will be done sans-Flash. I wonder if this is an actual technology issue or a damage control measure by Moto.

But since the unveiling at CES, almost every bit of news about the Xoom has been disheartening.

Over-promise and under-deliver.

After Motorola announced its iPad competitor will cost more than the iPad, a Verizon promo uncovered the fact that the Xoom won’t come with support for Adobe’s Flash technology until sometime this spring.

Flash doesn’t.

NFC is being promoted aggressively by cell phone makers, carriers, banks and other companies looking to profit from the new mobile payment systems NFC will facilitate.

Thus far, if you have a Nexus S you can scan certain stickers in Portland OR. Still waiting for something interesting to be announced from anyone. 

• Thursday: Verizon = 909, AT&T = 539
• Friday: Verizon = 916, AT&T = 680
• Saturday: Verizon = 660, AT&T = 471
• Sunday: Verizon = 796, AT&T = 701
• Monday: Verizon = 711, AT&T = 618

Looks like AT&T has everyone already under contract—expect to see higher numbers for the next iPhone.

Super cute.

Even though pre-orders opened to existing Verizon subscribers at 3AM, the Verizon website is reported to have generated problems for over five hours afterward, including error messages or slow orders taking about an hour.

Can’t wait to see the number of pre-orders when this is all said and done.

However, unlike the iPad home screen, which served as a larger version of the iPhone’s, Google has designated the home screen of Honeycomb tablets to serve as a dense array of widgets spanning multiple pages, more like a PC desktop, with a lower “System Bar” containing app switcher controls and a taskbar (called “notifications and system status”), an upper “Action Bar” with search and app launching controls, and a series of virtual desktops, each containing a configurable Dock-like strip of app icons below a series of floating panels that can present media playback controls, live inbox and calendar items, stacks of ebooks and youtube videos, and other user configurable mini-applets.

R.I.P. Chrome OS

A NearField Communications World survey conducted by Visa Europe in the UK, Italy, Poland and Turkey suggests 87 percent of iPhone users would consider making mobile payments from the iPhone via an attached accessory.

How about if it was built-in? :-)