It looks like Motorola’s XOOM Android 3.0 tablet is about to leak out onto the shop shelves, with the UK wing of Amazon now featuring stock of the tablet for dispatch.
The asking price is £569.99 including shipping
This is rather more than the UK high street price, which seems to be hovering around the £479 mark (thanks, Jimbo). Anyone actually seen/touched/bought a XOOM out in the real world yet?
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Jimbo
/ April 15, 2011Isn’t it actualy £90 more than the high street price? :)
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/motorola-xoom-tablet-pc-32gb-09752543-pdt.html
Gary C
/ April 15, 2011Yes. I shouldn’t start posting things until 11.00am at the earliest. Thanks.
edhe
/ April 15, 2011Spotted one in currys and looked at it for a minute. Will need to go back and have a further fiddle.
Dan
/ April 15, 2011I have mine, very nice, movies look great on it and the Gmail app is lovely. Some web sites don’t play nicely with the browser, Guardian for instance thinks its a mobile device.
This thing is really solid, feels a little heavier in the hand than it looks, but you’re not going to breaks it, something that is all too easy to do with the poorly executed engineering on an Apple device.
tom
/ April 15, 2011enter about:debug into the address bar and hit enter, then go into settings and tap debug there will be an option such as UASTRING I think then tap desktop mode, this is not a permanent fix, you may have to repeat this, hope this helps
James
/ April 15, 2011I received mine on Wednesday even after being told by PC World that they were delayed until this coming Saturday. I love it. Its the perfect size and shape, added by the fact it has a small bezel.
I am surprised at how much i use it over my laptop, in fact i have hardly used my laptop in two days. I agree with Dan that it is a little heavier than it looks but you can tell from the moment you pick it up, it is a quality built, solid product.
I am not experiencing any lag which has been reported from various sources. Video and music playback is A ok (although i did have to download a 3rd party app from the market to play AVI files as the xoom only recognizes MPEG4 i believe), it just seems smooth no matter what i am doing. I am still in the honeymoon period i guess but i am more than happy with the Xoom.
Jimbo
/ April 15, 2011Ok went to town today and couldn’t resist… posting this comment using it now. Really like it so far…
HZ
/ April 16, 2011Had a o in PC World today. Walked up to it expecting to impulse-buy, but it felt the tiniest unresponsive and juttery — compared to the iPads across the shop, it was a little disappointing. At £80 more than the iPad 2 I couldn’t really justify it, but the iPad’s no good to me either. Still hoping for the right Android tablet to be released to give me a good excuse not to talk to the wife.