Motorola Cuts Xoom Price

Motorola's Xoom is the latest Mechanical man tablet to get ahead lower pricing, with a new "Family Edition" Xoom now available for $379.

The Xoom Family Edition is nearly selfsame to its predecessor, but has 16GB of storage instead of 32GB, and is Wi-Fi-only. It also includes many preloaded software, including Kid Zone by Zoodles — thence the "household" moniker — and QuickOffice. New specs include a 10.1-inch, 1280-by-800-resolving display, and a 1GHz duple-essence Nvidia Tegra central processing unit.

The 32GB Xoom Wi-Fi will stay to sell for $499, while the Xoom 4G LTE volition cost $500 with a two-year sign through Verizon Wireless, or $670 without one. Best Bribe, which is exclusively selling the Xoom Family Variation, will eventually raise the toll to $399 according to the Wall St. Journal, only gave nary timeline. (I doubt it'll ever happen.)

Battling the iPad

Motorola isn't the first pill maker to cut prices. Last month, Research in Motion's Blackberry Playbook and HTC's Flyer both born in price from $500 to $300. Toshiba's Thrive and Acer's Iconia Tab key A500 birth also seen modest cost cuts.

The reason for these falling prices is no mystery. iPad alternatives just aren't selling. By one guess, but 3.4 jillio tablets based on Google's Android Honeycomb operating system have sold so far, while Apple had sold 25 million iPads as of June 2011. Only Amazon's Kindle Fire, which has reportedly seen equipotent prerelease orders, seems to be property up against the iPad, thanks in biggish split up to its $199 price tag.

Just price cuts lone don't make a pill worth buying. The pilot Xoom took some criticism in PCWorld's review for its massiveness and its too glossy riddle. Android Honeycomb, in the meantime, is still rough approximately the edges and offers few great tablet apps. Honeycomb tablets own just about redeeming qualities, much as widgets and in some cases major connectivity to external hardware, only if a cheap 10-inch Android pad of paper is what you're after, I think a refurbished Genus Acer Iconia Tab for $300 is your best bet.

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