a ton of people on this forum keep bringing up that the ipad starts at 500 and the xoom starts at 800. GUYS the xoom has a wifi version for 530! just saying, check your facts. get your noses out of the steve jobs bible 
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The xoom DOES have a wifi version!!
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And how much will it cost? Apparently that picture is in a demo store and could very well be a placeholder. I am interested to hear the release date and official price.
You really want to beta test Google's Alpha software?
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=146415
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=146415
As of now there is not a release date for the wifi version, the pricing of $530 was some sort of Sam's Club loss leader, I thought the real price is $599. What would be a concern for me would be the fact if I go to Verizon Wireless I see iPad2 on home page and no reference to Xoom, I had a hard time finding it. I also checked out Best Buy and if you go to tablets section you see reference to iPad2 no reference to Xoom until you display all products.
If the price difference is really $269.99 between the 3G/4G model and Wifi aren't they ripping you off? Maybe I am missing other model differences.
If the price difference is really $269.99 between the 3G/4G model and Wifi aren't they ripping you off? Maybe I am missing other model differences.
These Droid things might do better if all of their advertisements weren't targeting 12 year old boys. Apple commercials are as neutral and minimal as can be and cover all kinds of use cases, Droid commercials look like a trailer for a Michael Bay movie.
a ton of people on this forum keep bringing up that the ipad starts at 500 and the xoom starts at 800. GUYS the xoom has a wifi version for 530! just saying, check your facts. get your noses out of the steve jobs bible
"It never crashed in my tests, unlike every Android tablet I've tested." - AllThingsD
"The iPad 2 isn't just the best tablet on the market, it feels like the only tablet on the market" - Engadget
"In short, the iPad 2 is the fastest iOS device ever made, by a long shot." - Macworld
Tell me why should I care?
Yeah but the Xoom is a pioneer in the android tablet with Honeycomb. Apps designed for tablet. Heard all the same stuff right before i purchased the Google g1, the original android device and business exploded. That phone was the best phone I had and the potentials were endless. The hardware was there to run the software which came in a few months.
I have to say the xoom probably won't have a good start but it will be a beast once development on honeycomb starts to boom. By then though, competitors of other android devices will have their stuff out but I think that's where hardware and specs shine. And xoom is future proof for a while with its dual core, 1gb ram (Which you have to give it up... combine that with android and you got a killer multitasking device) and a few other things.
this isnt a comparison to the ipad 2 so dont take it as such. Just a fan of both and to each its own.
yeah, and ipad1 was a pioneer for iOS3.2. And that OS AND the apps didn't had a beta-software feel on them.
Funny. I seem to recall a time when I couldn't even do copy and paste on an iOS device...
In the hour I spent with the xoom at best buy, I had 8 force closes. Google maps, browser and music
a ton of people on this forum keep bringing up that the ipad starts at 500 and the xoom starts at 800. GUYS the xoom has a wifi version for 530! just saying, check your facts. get your noses out of the steve jobs bible
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There has been pics of it selling at Sam's Club for $539, when they get it in stock.
According to that article...
"The Motorola Xoom costs about $800. Battery life runs between two and four hours, according to Chowdhry's research."
Seriously? That does surprise me.
"The Motorola Xoom costs about $800. Battery life runs between two and four hours, according to Chowdhry's research."
Seriously? That does surprise me.
Please. The article is just plain wrong. Battery life it outstanding. And it does cost $800 but Motorola already has a $100 off coupon floating around. What are the chances of an iPad price drop or discount?
Lack of a feature doesn't equal beta status. Windows Phone 7 for example, while missing some features, is actually a very well polished product that feels even more mature than Android in many ways. (yes, insert your own "It's just WinCE with a different shell" joke here)
On a related note, if you advertise your product of having feature A and B, and release the product without it, that probably doesn't help either.
Speaking of the Xoom WiFi. Do we even have a solid release date rumor yet?
Unfortunately, unlike the iPad, there are all sorts of things people can do to a Honeycomb demo tablet to muck it up. That is good or bad depending on your point of view. Those demo units should be locked down.
I can assure you a clean, fresh install is very stable. Start loading apps designed for previous os versions and ymmv.
Please. The article is just plain wrong. Battery life it outstanding. And it does cost $800 but Motorola already has a $100 off coupon floating around. What are the chances of an iPad price drop or discount?
Yeah, for the few days I had the Xoom I noticed the battery wasn't that bad. The email client, zoom in browser, landscape only, low quality screen, no apps at all, were bad though. After I gave it back, I don't miss it at all.
I haven't seen the Xoom but as an Android phone owner I somehow doubt it. While there are many configuration options, nothing really impacts the performance that much. From what I've read the problem with the Xoom and Honeycomb in its current status is that if you load many apps and don't close them, the speed can suffer severely. That has nothing to do with configurability, probably more related to the not completely tuned task management function of Honeycomb.