Verizon leak shows Motorola's iPad challenger priced at $799
A possible leak of Verizon's 'minimum advertised price' for the unreleased Motorola Xoom tablet lists a $799.99 price tag for the device, $70 more than a comparable iPad.
The leaked updates to Verizon's MAP pricing for the Xoom tablet were obtained by Android Central, though the report was quick to warn that the price could change before launch.
Google VP Andy Rubin showed off a prototype of the Motorola tablet in December. Motorola then released a teaser video for the tablet, downplaying the iPad as "like a giant iPhone" and touting the Motorola tablet as "the next chapter in tablet evolution."
Motorola formally unveiled the Xoom tablet at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, though the device was "not completely done." The Xoom will be the first tablet to run Google's Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system, which has been "designed from the ground up for tablets."
The Xoom has a dual core 1GHz processor, 32GB of flash storage and front and rear cameras. The 10.1 inch screen has a resolution of 1280 by 800. Additional features include a built-in gyroscope, barometer, e-compass, accelerometer and adaptive lighting.
If the leaked price of $799 is to be believed, the Xoom would cost $70 more than the 32GB 3G iPad, which sells for $729. Motorola plans to release the device in the first quarter of this year.
The leak also listed update prices for several Motorola smartphones and the HTC Thunderbolt, which is listed at $249.99. According to the photos, the minimum advertising prices for the Thunderbolt and Xoom are valid from Jan. 21 to July 21.
Last October, Apple CEO Steve Jobs predicted that competitors would "have a tough time coming close to iPad's pricing" because Apple creates its own "A4 chip, software, battery chemistry, enclosure, everything."
Earlier this week, Apple Chief Operations Officer Tim Cook, who will fill in for Jobs during his recently announced medical leave of absence, downplayed concerns about rival tablets like the Xoom. "There?s nothing shipping yet, and they lack performance specs and pricing. Today they?re vapor," said Cook during the company's first fiscal quarter 2011 earnings call on Tuesday.
"However, we?re not sitting still," Cook continued. "We have a huge first-mover advantage. And a huge user advantage from iTunes to the App Store. Huge number of apps and an ecosystem. We?re very confident entering into a fight with anyone."
The leaked updates to Verizon's MAP pricing for the Xoom tablet were obtained by Android Central, though the report was quick to warn that the price could change before launch.
Google VP Andy Rubin showed off a prototype of the Motorola tablet in December. Motorola then released a teaser video for the tablet, downplaying the iPad as "like a giant iPhone" and touting the Motorola tablet as "the next chapter in tablet evolution."
Motorola formally unveiled the Xoom tablet at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, though the device was "not completely done." The Xoom will be the first tablet to run Google's Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system, which has been "designed from the ground up for tablets."
The Xoom has a dual core 1GHz processor, 32GB of flash storage and front and rear cameras. The 10.1 inch screen has a resolution of 1280 by 800. Additional features include a built-in gyroscope, barometer, e-compass, accelerometer and adaptive lighting.
If the leaked price of $799 is to be believed, the Xoom would cost $70 more than the 32GB 3G iPad, which sells for $729. Motorola plans to release the device in the first quarter of this year.
The leak also listed update prices for several Motorola smartphones and the HTC Thunderbolt, which is listed at $249.99. According to the photos, the minimum advertising prices for the Thunderbolt and Xoom are valid from Jan. 21 to July 21.
Last October, Apple CEO Steve Jobs predicted that competitors would "have a tough time coming close to iPad's pricing" because Apple creates its own "A4 chip, software, battery chemistry, enclosure, everything."
Earlier this week, Apple Chief Operations Officer Tim Cook, who will fill in for Jobs during his recently announced medical leave of absence, downplayed concerns about rival tablets like the Xoom. "There?s nothing shipping yet, and they lack performance specs and pricing. Today they?re vapor," said Cook during the company's first fiscal quarter 2011 earnings call on Tuesday.
"However, we?re not sitting still," Cook continued. "We have a huge first-mover advantage. And a huge user advantage from iTunes to the App Store. Huge number of apps and an ecosystem. We?re very confident entering into a fight with anyone."
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What can it do?
$799.00=d.o.a.
dead BEFORE arrival, in fact
I don't think the Xoom will be DoA, but I do think it will not sell near as many units as iPads. I'm curious as to how all this competition will play out.
*I mean that literally.
Wouldn't surprise me if Apple reduced the price of the iPad by another $49.
When is Honeycomb due?
I think they're waiting for Rubin to finish Honeycomb... and then they can finish the tablet... who knows??
Dead, specially when people realize that they will be at the mercy of Moto and the carriers for any software update.
As opposed to folks being at the mercy of Apple for a software update?
Android devices can be rooted, any any number of custom OS images loaded. Give it time.
When is Honeycomb due?
Andy Rubin said: "sometime next year" in December
Xoom launch day is rumored to be Feb. 14.
Is there anything close to the iPad right now? Not that I've seen, so Apple will maintain much of its lead this year. HP apparently has something on the WebOS front but it better make toast and drip coffee or something like that to take away sales from the iPad.
Dead, specially when people realize that they will be at the mercy of Moto and the carriers for any software update.
As opposed to folks being at the mercy of Apple for a software update?
Android devices can be rooted, any any number of custom OS images loaded. Give it time.
What the original poster meant of course is that Android devices are dependent on their carrier, not Google, to provide updates. And the carriers/manufacturers can modify Android any way they please, causing the fragmentation that is beginning to plague Android. iOS devices are updated directly by Apple without depending on some third party. But you already knew that didn't you and just wanted to troll your fandroidism.
And yeah, right, the average joe consumer is going to root his Android device and install some goofball custom OS. Not going to happen on any kind of scale, large or small. More like on a minuscule scale. But you already know that too don't you. Why does the tech tinkerer crowd think they represent the mass market and that tinkering ability trumps ease of use? Nonsense. Give it as much time as you want. It ain't gonna happen.
Android devices can be rooted, any any number of custom OS images loaded. Give it time.
If that's the "advantage", then the Xoom will definitely die quickly. How many more millions of iOS devices that continuously prove the naysayers wrong will it take to prove to folks like you that what's good for the tech-head/geek community is not what the masses want?
You're in a very, very small (albeit vocal) minority.
Besides, there's already tough-talk from Motorola going around with them locking down their devices to prevent folks from tinkering their devices. What makes you think they will honor the "openness" mantra of Android? A motorola spokesperson even said to folks like you to look elsewhere if you want an "open" device!
Good luck.
At least as iOS device will be upgradeable for the next few years when new releases of iOS comes out. Who's to say motorola will let that happen for any of their devices?
And for only $500 more than the iPad?
The line for these things should be - um - out the - um - door!
Andy Rubin said: "sometime next year" in December
Xoom launch day is rumored to be Feb. 14.
I've seen a release date for the wifi Xoom of Feb. 14 as you've mentioned but I've also seen release date of April for the wifi version (and another story says the 4lte in April).
... but then I've also read stories where Rubin isn't finished Honeycomb... who knows... we'll see soon enough.