The Motorola Xoom is the epitomy of the Android Honeycomb tablet and it launched quite recently so its only natural that it gets a lot of media attention. The latest news is that the device just got a price tag and a pre-order option in the UK and a coming soon price-tag for T-Mobile Germany.
In the UK the Xoom will be available some time in this or the next month, for the asking price of £449.99, courtesy of PC World. This price is for the Wi-Fi only Motorola Xoom, the 32GB version, and it amounts to about $730, which is not that bad in European terms, really. Whats more the Xoom is less expensive than its direct competitor the iPad 32GB Wi-Fi, by as much as £60.
For the Xoom to succeed in the market it will have to win the competition with the iPad. This will be no easy task, as the Apple tablet has a whole year ahead of the Xoom and Apple is announcing its next generation slate tomorrow at an event in San Francisco.
But back to the Xoom, its also headed for T-Mobile Germany. The telecom promises to have it on the shelves in the end of April, but at the steep price of €699.95 or $968. Sure this is the 3G-enabled version we are talking about, but still its a serious asking price. The deal is, T-Mobile get to be the exclusive operator to offer the Motorola Xoom for 3 months, after which other carriers should get the same chance. And hopefully bring the prices down a notch.
