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Xoom drops to a reasonable price
IT SEEMS that the maker of tablets, Motorola has finally twigged that no one will buy the keyboardless netbooks if it tries to copy Apple's business model and charge an unreasonable amount for them.
PC World is taking pre-orders for Motorola's Xoom and the price tag is a very reasonable £449.99. Still not as cheap as a netbook, but certainly better than paying Steve Jobs a lot of dosh.
It is also a lot cheaper than the £700 that was rumoured to be the price tag initially, so it seems that Motorola heard our warning and changed its mind.
While many will claim that the price drop is out of fear that Apple is going to trump the world with its Ipad 2, the specifications for Jobs' Mob's latest creation are not as good as the Xoom.
The Xoom is the first tablet to ship with Android 3.0, which is the first version of Google's mobile operating system that's designed for tablets, and of course you can use Flash.
At that price it really is sensible competition at last for Apple's machine and it does have one killer feature - the lack of an Apple logo. µ
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YOULL STAIN IT YELLOW, YOU VAPID INDIVIDUAL
I'm not sure if this is some sort of bad joke but there is no price on that article. In fact there isn't a single price on the entire fucking website.
This website is starting to look like a joke. Why not check the fucking articles before you post some made up bullshit and pass it off as fact.
Get some good authors who care about what they are writing please like I said this guy is either making a bad joke or he isn't just linking the wrong website but hes also completely wrong about the pre-order price for that particular vendor, they don't have any pre-orders up and there is no price.
People already think this website is a joke. It's hard to defend it with crap like this.
I didn't realize Nick thought £449 was reasonable for a tablet. I guess if Apple can hit that price point with an iPad, Nick will stop calling them overpriced.
Price seems to have disappeared.
"the specifications for Jobs' Mob's latest creation are not as good as the Xoom."
Wow, I did not even know the specs (or indeed product) were publicly available.
Divide by 1.62 to get pounds, add 20% VAT, round up to the next price point and you get £449. Want to bet that the 32GB iPad 2 won't cost the same?
From reading the blurb it looks like the version PCWorld and Curry's will be selling is the wifi-only model which makes it somewhat less competetive against the ipad.