Comments on: $800 Motorola XOOM could price Honeycomb out of contention http://www.slashgear.com/800-motorola-xoom-could-price-honeycomb-out-of-contention-07131190/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/800-motorola-xoom-could-price-honeycomb-out-of-contention-07131190/#comment-93922 Anonymous Fri, 11 Feb 2011 01:46:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=131190#comment-93922 Dudes,
If you compare with iPAD 3G with 32GB its $729…. the Xoom is twice the machine. See iPAD prices here..http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad

]]> By: RP http://www.slashgear.com/800-motorola-xoom-could-price-honeycomb-out-of-contention-07131190/#comment-93414 RP Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:43:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=131190#comment-93414 This could be a fake ad. The spelling in the ad is not BestBuy quality. READ CLOSELY

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/800-motorola-xoom-could-price-honeycomb-out-of-contention-07131190/#comment-93272 Anonymous Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:43:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=131190#comment-93272 I have the latest Google Nexus S and an iPod, not even an iPhone, yes, Nexus is can do more, and yes, iPod outperforms Nexus S on quality and applications.

I guess I will wait for iPad 2, the Motorola commercial is nice, but none of the Google products can match Apple so far, they should have paid attention to that point before they priced it :-)

]]> By: amo http://www.slashgear.com/800-motorola-xoom-could-price-honeycomb-out-of-contention-07131190/#comment-93229 amo Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:54:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=131190#comment-93229 Sorry it is on par with an IPAD how many flocked to buy their little lie from Apple. It might be a little high but so is the IPAD, that should have been half of what people paid for it. This has more features and all Andriod is gonna be better than iOS. If Apple made a tablet that used the full OS I would buy it until then I am going with Android. IPAD has 3G people flocked to get that. Yes Android cant put out poop in a bag and have people buy it for $100. There will be a lot of units sold when it comes out it just wont be the fanboy attraction like the Apple products. Anyone wanna bet the IPAD 2 will cost about 20-40 more than the old IPAD?

3G/4G is sorta useless on a unit above 5″ but sometimes you will use it. Otherwise just tether it to a phone if you can and use that connection. Not to difficult. It will be interesting to see if this or the playbook sells more.

If this also used the Pixel-Qi screen that the flop from Notion Ink used, this would be a very nice device. I think Notion Ink might end up being a software company in the future and not a hardware unit/tablet company.

]]> By: Matthewsj http://www.slashgear.com/800-motorola-xoom-could-price-honeycomb-out-of-contention-07131190/#comment-93215 Matthewsj Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:33:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=131190#comment-93215 I don’t understand this stupidity. Why does anyone want a 3G/4G radio in a 10in or larger tablet? The majority of the people that would buy this would use it at home with thier WiFi connect. Those of us that may take it out and about from time to time will likely have smartphones that we could use as WiFi hotspots for the device.

Make this thing WiFi only for $599 and it will sell. This is the same stupid mistake Samsung made with the Galaxy Tab.

btw, WHERE THE HECK IS THE WIFI ONLY GALAXY TAB????

]]> By: Luxury item http://www.slashgear.com/800-motorola-xoom-could-price-honeycomb-out-of-contention-07131190/#comment-93190 Luxury item Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:41:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=131190#comment-93190 These are currently seen as luxury items by the hardware manufacturers and carriers so they are going to charge a premium.

I’l wait for the Asus Transformer for $499 (if they keep their word on that price) and get a tablet/netbook all in one.

]]> By: Gary Wilkinson http://www.slashgear.com/800-motorola-xoom-could-price-honeycomb-out-of-contention-07131190/#comment-93183 Gary Wilkinson Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:20:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=131190#comment-93183 The price will drop when nobody buys it.

]]> By: Bluemillion http://www.slashgear.com/800-motorola-xoom-could-price-honeycomb-out-of-contention-07131190/#comment-93162 Bluemillion Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:58:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=131190#comment-93162 So let me get this straight. The xoom costs 800.00 with tax that is going to be like 870.00. Then verizon wants me to set up a data plan (with me it will probably have to be the 5 gig plan) so that is 80.00 more. So were looking at over 900 bucks just so I can surf the net on a tablet instead of my droid or net book. There is no way in hell that I’m doing that. If this is how the tablet thing is going to be, then I will happily keep using my laptop as my portable device. And I bet that 80% of consumers feel exactly like I do. Suddenly I don’t care about the motorola xoom anymore.

]]> By: Bluemillion http://www.slashgear.com/800-motorola-xoom-could-price-honeycomb-out-of-contention-07131190/#comment-93163 Bluemillion Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:58:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=131190#comment-93163 So let me get this straight. The xoom costs 800.00 with tax that is going to be like 870.00. Then verizon wants me to set up a data plan (with me it will probably have to be the 5 gig plan) so that is 80.00 more. So were looking at over 900 bucks just so I can surf the net on a tablet instead of my droid or net book. There is no way in hell that I’m doing that. If this is how the tablet thing is going to be, then I will happily keep using my laptop as my portable device. And I bet that 80% of consumers feel exactly like I do. Suddenly I don’t care about the motorola xoom anymore.

]]> By: sola http://www.slashgear.com/800-motorola-xoom-could-price-honeycomb-out-of-contention-07131190/#comment-93161 sola Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:50:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=131190#comment-93161 These prices are crazy !!!

I just don’t understand the thinking behind it. An ARM tablet is clearly not a luxury item even if dual-core with 1Gig of RAM. Why should anyone try to sell it at luxury-level prices??? These are secondary devices at best, not your primary computer for which may be willing to pay a lot.

The Samsung Tab has clearly failed with this approach, Samsung and partners had to lower the price of the Tab significantly in order to generate sufficient sales. The Xoom will follow exactly the same path. They will sell only small amounts and will have to lower the price by 30-50% to get rid of the inventory.

]]> By: Diordna http://www.slashgear.com/800-motorola-xoom-could-price-honeycomb-out-of-contention-07131190/#comment-93159 Diordna Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:34:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=131190#comment-93159 Bet this one doesn’t xoom off the shelves…..

]]> By: Haze http://www.slashgear.com/800-motorola-xoom-could-price-honeycomb-out-of-contention-07131190/#comment-93157 Haze Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:28:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=131190#comment-93157 Even if most consumers avoid the Xoom due to it’s, price… Android 3.0 is here and there will be ‘lesser’ tablets released this year. As for me, the tech is clearly worth $800 and I will buy one just as soon as they open up pre-orders.

]]> By: Haze http://www.slashgear.com/800-motorola-xoom-could-price-honeycomb-out-of-contention-07131190/#comment-93158 Haze Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:28:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=131190#comment-93158 Even if most consumers avoid the Xoom due to it’s, price… Android 3.0 is here and there will be ‘lesser’ tablets released this year. As for me, the tech is clearly worth $800 and I will buy one just as soon as they open up pre-orders.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/800-motorola-xoom-could-price-honeycomb-out-of-contention-07131190/#comment-93155 Anonymous Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:58:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=131190#comment-93155 Looks like Android tablets are coming no strong — but the pricing of this one pretty much seals its’ fate :(

]]> By: micrapple http://www.slashgear.com/800-motorola-xoom-could-price-honeycomb-out-of-contention-07131190/#comment-93154 micrapple Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:52:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=131190#comment-93154 No silly, if you want the $699 price then you must have a 2yr contract. [laugh] and that will bring that up to just over a G. [laugh]…[silent pause]

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/800-motorola-xoom-could-price-honeycomb-out-of-contention-07131190/#comment-93153 Anonymous Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:44:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=131190#comment-93153 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ossrE5mWtfo

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