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cory dunbar
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Wifi Only Xoom upgradable to 4G LTE?
Because this teardown is a 3G model that is upgradeable to 4G It obviously has the blank mini-PCI interconnect board and all the pin connections. If (hopefully) Motorola releases a WiFi only XOOM in the U.S. and they leave all of the pin connections in the device, would it be possible to do a 4G upgrade to your WiFi-only XOOM? Or will it not have any of the chips needed to take use of the LTE radio?
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Gorbachev
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I just tore a WiFi only Xoom apart. There are blank solder pads on the circuit board where the necessary parts would go. In other words, it would be a major rework of the device to add those parts, it's not as simple as plugging in the mini PCI card. There are also no cellular antennae in the device. I would suggest there's too much missing to make it upgradeable.
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delgiannot
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mike
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I solderd the sockets from an old streak 7 and installed the antennae on to my wifi xoom, i tried a tmobile and a att card and it did not work, i was just looking at the tear down pics again and there are componentand on the MB that are not on my wifi MB, wish i would have look more closely before i did all that work
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jenna2
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mi2b4u2c
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Carry one of them 4G hotspot devices in you pocket. I had one from Clear networks. It handled eight devices and was about the size of a pack of smokes. The service was around fifty bucks a month/unlimited