I bought a 3G Xoom at Heathrow on my way back to NZ. Been using it a few days. Great device. The NZ vodafone sim just worked as soon as I put it in. Handy, because the broadband wasn't laid on in new house until the next day. When it did come on line, the tablet connected without any issues.

The way android worked threw me a bit at first (figuring out copy & paste took a while). Very fast. great for e-mails, web browsing, and so on.

I gave up expecting Nokia to come up with anything else usable (until their Windows phones, anyway), and who knows when MeeGo will bring anything tablet-wise to market. (unless I missed something over the past 2 months).

I'd prefer something with a real linux on, but actually, I am quite taken with the Android 3.1 tablet. It is so easy to set up and use, and has loads of useful things in the market place. It won't run Stellarium, which is disappointing, as that is written in QT (apparently). But having lugged a laptop in my baggage flying to, from & around the UK for 2 months (with my n900 for mobile access) I decided 'never again'. Something like the Xoom makes for the ideal portable device.

The interface is a bit odd at first, coming from 30 years of keyboard use, starting with terminals. But, I think it is more intuitive to non-PC users. I tested this out, switched it on, and handed it to one of the kids who was with his dad working on the new place we just moved into. He had not seen one before, but picked it up straight away. From what I could see, there was little he could break on it.

I am very impressed, although finding out how to do things you just do without thinking on PC's is not straightforward. I have to say that this (Maemo) community is better on that front.

Motorola mobile being bought by Google can only be good news for this kind of device. I am saddened that Nokia missed this opportunity with Maemo - but they have missed the boat. I hope Intel can pull something off with MeeGo, but I am skeptical having got my hands on an Android 3 tablet.