As Emily told you last month, we are spreading our coolness around the midwest by working with Verizon Wireless’ Midwest Moms. What up!? I was rather excited at the beginning of September when Emily handed custody of the Motorola Xoom tablet we are reviewing as part of the program. I had never used a tablet before and I was intrigued. After two weeks with the Xoom, my whole family is lovin’ it! Here are my favorite ways I’ve used the Xoom so far:
1) In the car – Emily shared with you how the Xoom helped make her family’s road trip successful. Well my family had a similar experience on our way home from Virginia after Labor Day. Having the Xoom in the car was awwwweee-some! Not only because the fast 3G Verizon service made using the internet and listening to Pandora possible, but because since the Xoom can also be used as a Wi-Fi hotspot, we could use more than one device at the same time! Yee-haa! It was pretty sweet.
2) In a waiting room. Oh, Lord, do I do a lot of waiting on my children. This week I used the Xoom to get me through the waiting times at Sophie’s HOUR-LONG gymnastics lesson, her OT session, and Joshua’s swimming lessons. I can do biz-niss on the Xoom, instead of just waiting! Anything I would do on my laptop, I can do on the Xoom. Pay bills, blog, Facebook stalk people, tweet, play games, etc. And it’s so nice and portable! It fits easily in my purse.
3) At home. Last week the kids and I hosted a Yo Gabba Gabba party, and I took the opportunity to test out the Xoom as a video camera. I LOVED using it to record the kids and their *sweet* dancey dance moves! It is awesome taking video on the big screen, and it was so easy, I gotta tell you I am much more likely to grab the Xoom and take video with it than I am to dig out the video camera. And, as you can see from the videos below, the Xoom’s video quality is great! (You should really watch the videos. Joshua’s is only 12 seconds long and features the stylings of Cortney’s son Evan and the cool detachment of Celia’s son Will. Sophie’s is 37 seconds long. 37 seconds of ADORABLE!)
I love the Xoom! So I’m linking up to Things I Love Thursday at the Diaper Diaries. Head over there to check out what others in the blogosphere are lovin’.
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Verizon Wireless hooked us up with a Motorola Xoom and 6-months of service.
It is important to be able to stalk people at all times!
Can you show a picture of the zoom, so we can see how tiny and awesome it is? 🙂 (And feel jealous and sad for our xoom-less selves.)
Next post, I will do just that Katrina!
As to the dancing, I think the kids have spent too much time with your brothers.
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These kids are SUPER cute!
The video quality is great too.
jackson just watched the video of sophie dancing. he said hi to her several times during it. he said that she was a cutie and thought it was funny, he laughed a lot.