{"id":12823,"date":"2011-02-25T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/2011\/02\/25\/xoom-lte-4g-update-details\/"},"modified":"2011-02-25T09:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T13:27:00","slug":"xoom-lte-%e2%80%984g%e2%80%99-upgrade-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=12823","title":{"rendered":"XOOM LTE \u20184G\u2019 Upgrade Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/xoom_lte_card.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 6px 10px 5px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"The dummy mini-PCI card inside the Motorola XOOM will be replaced with an LTE Modem during the upgrade...\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The dummy mini-PCI card inside the Motorola XOOM will be replaced with an LTE Modem during the upgrade...\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/xoom_lte_card_thumb.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a>As you probably know, the <a href=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/tablets\/android\/motorola\/xoom_verizon.htm\">Motorola XOOM<\/a> Android 3.0 tablet is shipping without LTE support, but this is coming in about three months by way of a free hardware upgrade.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">And to get it, you\u2019ll have to ship your XOOM to Motorola.&#160; <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Here\u2019s how it\u2019ll work:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Once the LTE upgrade is available, you will request the upgrade and receive a box with which to ship the XOOM to Motorola.&#160; Techs on the receiving end will then perform a hardware upgrade, removing a placeholder mini-PCI card inside the XOOM and replacing it with an LTE-compatible wireless modem.&#160; The XOOM will then be shipped back to you.&#160; The whole process is supposed to take 6 business days.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">iFixIt.com has an article on the XOOM\u2019s innards which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/Teardown\/Motorola-Xoom-Teardown\/4989\/1\">sheds some light<\/a> on the upgrade process, and Verizon has a <a href=\"http:\/\/support.vzw.com\/information\/xoom_grg.html\">page detailing<\/a> what you should do to get ready for the upgrade before you ship the XOOM off \u2013 but you have plenty of time to prepare as the upgrade is not expected to be available until May.<\/p>\n<h6 align=\"right\"><em>Image Source: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/Teardown\/Motorola-Xoom-Teardown\/4989\/1\"><em>iFixIt.com<\/em><\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you probably know, the Motorola XOOM Android 3.0 tablet is shipping without LTE support, but this is coming in about three months by way of a free hardware upgrade. And to get it, you\u2019ll have to ship your XOOM to Motorola.&#160; Here\u2019s how it\u2019ll work: Once the LTE upgrade is available, you will request [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=12823\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}