Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi matches iPad 2 on price

Xoom – the new tablet computer manufactured by Motorola – will soon be available in a Wi-Fi only iteration, Motorola announced today. Previously, Motorola was offering a 3G capable Xoom for $800, or $600 with a Verizon data plan. The new Wi-Fi Xoom will sell for $600, exactly in line with the 32GB Wi-Fi only Apple iPad 2. The device will ship with the Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system, 32GB of memory, and a 1GHz processor.

Powerful stuff. But many analysts have worried that Motorola waited too long to introduce a cheaper Xoom, and that the company may have scared away prospective consumer by initially rolling out only a 3G edition of the tablet computer.

Read more: http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2011/0316/Motorola-Xoom-Wi-Fi-matches-iPad-2-on-price

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