Motorola Xoom's Hefty (and Unconfirmed) Price Tag

By

A leaked (and unconfirmed) advertisement reveals that Motorola might ask consumers to shell out a whopping $800 for its upcoming Android Honeycomb-powered tablet. Technology blog Engadget reports that a Best Buy ad for the Motorola Xoom features a $799.99 price tag, along with the warning that the Xoom’s WiFi abilities will be deactivated unless the purchaser signs up for a one-month Verizon Wireless data plan. The ad also outlines data plans for the Xoom, starting at 1GB for $20 a month up to 10GB for $80 a month.

Previously, TechZone360.com reportedMotorola introduced the Xoom by giving a quick peek to attendees at January’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Xoom is a 10.1-inch tablet that features dual-core processing, an Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system from Google, and offers 1080p HD video content, the company said in a press release on its website. that

Among its features, the Xoom has:

  • A 2-megapixel camera facing the front to show video chats over WiFi or 3G/4G LTE;
  • A 5-megapixel camera facing the rear to show video in 720p HD.

In a review from the Washington Post, it was noted that the Xoom has a bigger screen and higher resolution that the Apple iPad. Xoom is the first tablet using Honeycomb.

Marni Walden, Verizon Wireless’ chief marketing officer, said that the Xoom, “gives consumers complete access and control of their favorite personal content and work files whether through our nationwide 3G network, or through our lightning-fast 4G LTE network as it rolls out around the country,” according to a company statement.

The Xoom starts as a 3G/WiFi-enabled device during the first quarter of 2011 with an upgrade to 4G LTE during the second quarter of this year. In the second quarter, the Xoom will start to be a 4G LTE/Wi-Fi-enabled device, the company said.




Edited by Tammy Wolf
Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. [Free eNews Subscription]

TechZone360 Contributing Editor

SHARE THIS ARTICLE
Related Articles

How Is AI Bringing Intelligence to Traditionally Manual Inspection Workflows?

By: Contributing Writer    10/16/2026

For insurers, rental companies, fleet operators, and remarketing businesses, vehicle inspections are a part of everyday operations. Much of that proce…

Read More

3 Factors That Can Dramatically Impact Your Microsoft Intune Spend

By: Contributing Writer    10/13/2026

With remote and dispersed work here to stay for the long term, secure endpoint management has become a big headache for IT and cybersecurity teams. Th…

Read More

Why Threat Modeling Fails Without an Attacker's Perspective

By: Contributing Writer    10/13/2026

A security team might spend weeks mapping attack paths and planning defenses, only to be breached through a web application nobody remembered was stil…

Read More

From AI Experiment to Enterprise Strategy: Making Claude Work at Scale

By: Contributing Writer    10/12/2026

Artificial intelligence often enters an organization through experimentation. One employee discovers a useful prompt, another tests document analysis,…

Read More

SIEM needs exposure context to keep pace with AI-era threats

By: Contributing Writer    10/6/2026

Security information and event management (SIEM) platforms give security operations center (SOC) teams a central place to collect and analyze security…

Read More