What the what?! Best Buy has just put up word on when you can pre-order the Motorola Xoom -- this coming Thursday, February 17th -- and a price, $1,199. There are "great" financing offers available, but we can't get over this price we're seeing. Our only hope is that this may be a placeholder number, which will get revised soon, though it's live on Best Buy's site and there's nothing to really indicate it's a mistake. Moreover, that 1-month data activation requirement we noted recently is indeed real, meaning you'll need to pay a levy to Verizon as well before you get your Android 3.0 groove on.
[Thanks, Joe and Magid]
[Thanks, Joe and Magid]
Nook Color - $250 and I'm rocking honeycomb on the sd card...
ReplyDeleteI think B&N won this showdown (tether with my phone, great e-reader [just take out the sd card for stock], and it's pretty!).
USD 1199 !!!.. Sorry, not interested.
ReplyDeleteWalt Wilcutts 2 minutes ago
ReplyDeleteSo you could buy an iPad and a 50" Plasma.........or the XOOM.
what. a. joke.
My motivations to buy a XooM has just exploded into a million tiny pieces of glittery magic!! With that price I can buy a New Android cellphone and any of those new coming tablet.
ReplyDeletemadhukarah 3 minutes ago
ReplyDeleteAt this price I'd rather buy another Macbook pro. Good luck Motorola ! #fail
I was gonna sell a lot of tablets but then I got high!
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Ahh you just jealous cause this tablet is a Bentley and all you can afford is a TATA Nano. Stick to the fruit pad apple fans and leave this tablet to the high rollers. Not every one can buy a premium product. Fruit pad can compete with Archos and pandigital and Chinese Kirfs at low end. Let moto dominate high end.
ReplyDeleteI'm just jealous of your stupidity :D
ReplyDeleteok this thing is a Bentley ... from Toys"R"Us
ReplyDeleteMysteriousRacerX 4 minutes ago
ReplyDelete$1200 plus a required service fee? I think between this and the ~$500 Atrix notebook dock (that's just a display/KB and battery), Motorola is losing their mind.
Even Apple is charging 1/2 that price for their 32GB WiFi, and ~$470 less for their 32/3G Tablet (and as I understand it, you can add 3G service as needed, without a contract).
3.0 might be a little more stout vs. the current iOS, and the device might have a little perkier CPU/GPU, but in a new market, without any brand equity, this thing is going to _sink_.
At 10", it's not portable enough to not need a case/bag, and if you're going to have to have supplemental baggage on the go, you might as well go with a CULV notebook or a MBA (close to the same battery life, but a "real" computer). Heck, for $1200 you could buy a 16GB iPad and an ASUS U series, so you'd have tab to knock around with at the house, and a full PC to take on the road. Just add one of the dozens of phones with a wireless AP function and you've got connectivity (and you're probably already paying for data services on your phone).
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Pardon my French, but Motorola really fucked this up. Epic fail.
ReplyDeleteMotorola is daft pricing like this. This time, again, they'll suffer big trouble just like they did after the great success of Razr.
ReplyDeleteWow! So that' s for the Motorola Xoom. Will wait then for the HP TouchPad, or Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 or iPad 2.
ReplyDeleteThis is to make the real $800 price look like a great deal. :p
ReplyDeleteapple must be rejoicing! few will buy.that price is crazy man
ReplyDeleteThat would make sense if the iPad didn't start at only $499.
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