Motorola opens up Xoom for developers

INSTALL YOUR OWN operating system on the Xoom tablet is the offer from Motorola that has been tweeted to the world.

Set to tip up after March with the Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS, the Xoom will bring the promise of being able to replace the long awaited Honeycomb with something else, as has been revealed in a tweet.

The tweet, seen below, is a slightly confused affair as it suggests that the unlocked bootloader would somehow give developers access to the firmware. But The INQUIRER thinks that only in the loosest possible way would developers be able to modify hardware functions.

Motorola's tweet said, "@RobBull the XOOM will have an unlockable/relockable bootloader that will enable developers to access hardware for development "
Rob Bull had asked Motorola via Twitter if the Xoom bootloader was encrypted or signed.

What OS developers would want to put on there The INQUIRER asks itself, well Android 2.2 or 2.3, which support Flash, might be a first choice as Honeycomb products seem to be bereft of the application?

Or developers could modify Android 2.3, or dare we say it Android 2.4, which is Ice cream or Gingerbread plus Honeycomb with knobs on, apparently, to create their own tablet specific OS.

But The INQUIRER thinks that developers should give Nokia and Intel employees a bit of hope and load in Meego. µ