Motorola released its highly anticipated tablet – the Motorola XOOM – at the end of February. All the reviews of the device stated that the product was rushed to the market.

The XOOM has a pretty decent spec sheet which includes a Tegra 2 chipset, couple of cameras, an array of sensors, free upgrade to 4G LTE and an non-functional microSD card slot.

Even though the Xoom is available in various storage capacities including 16GB and 32GB, a microSD card slot is always useful. Motorola and Google say that the microSD card on the Xoom will be functional sometime in future, after an OS update.

Now, a team of developers – Tiamat – over at XDA-Developers have released a custom kernel for the Xoom, which enables the microSD card slot. All Motorola Xoom owners need to do is to flash this custom kernel on their tablet, and insert a microSD card in the slot!

The custom kernel also brings support for tun.ko and cifs.ko, along with a modded ramdisk for USB Host support.

Xoom owners can head over to this thread for more information.