After yesterday’s embarrassing little slip we now have a revised price for the wi-fi version of the 10.1″ Motorola XOOM Android 3.0 tablet – which PC World will let you pre-order for delivery on or around April 9th. It’s down as £499 on the site right now.
There’s a disclaimer in bold text that the precise release date for the XOOM is yet to be confirmed, so don’t book the time off work just yet.
We preferred yesterday’s price, but that’s still not a complete financial disaster. We’ve put most of the XOOM tech specs on the internet before – here. Link via Phandroid.
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
The HTC One V is HTC’s third entry in its high-profile new HTC One range, offering a smaller 3.7″ display running on a single-core 1GHz processor. It is is very much the “affordable” option in HTC’s newest Android series, but…
The HTC One S is the piggy in the middle of HTC’s 2012 line-up, offering a 4.3″ AMOLED display inside a very slim and stylish aluminium chassis. The end result is a phone that’s very, very slim and stylish.
HTC’s new quad-core monster, the 4.7″ flagship for 2012 that introduces the Tegra 3 processor to mobile phones, updates HTC’s range to Android 4.0 and brings us the supposedly streamlined version 4.0 of HTC’s Sense user interface.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
question everything
/ March 2, 2011Too much. Give it a few months, once there’s been competing Tegra tablets from Samsung, Acer, Asus and Toshiba released I think the prices may be more realistic.
Hands0n
/ March 2, 2011The Xoom is going to have to be competitively priced to the iPad (1 or 2) if it is to succeed in grabbing a slice of 1Q/2011 market share. There are plenty of other tablets on their way hot on the heels of the Xoom.
Bristolboy
/ March 2, 2011I read something interesting about why Android tablets don’t undercut iPads too much. Basically, Apple sells most of the iPads itself so it keeps most of the money, whereas for Android tablets the manufacturer often only gets half the price the retailer sells it for, so this means in effect that the price of Android tablets can’t be less than double the price of the components. This may explain the high price for the Xoom.
Bristolboy
/ March 2, 2011This will also explain why the Advent Vega is so much cheaper, since it is both manufactured and sold by Dixons Group.
Hans
/ March 2, 2011Another explanation for the low price on the Advent Vega is… It’s really cheap HW. The Xoom screen is not the best on the market, but the one on the Advent Vega is, cheap.
But I’m really looking forward to the release of the 8.9″ Galaxy Tab end of this months… Rumours are that it’s going to be the first tablet out there with Super AMOLED goodness. :P