Motorola today cut the price on the Wi-Fi only 10-inch Xoom tablet to $499, from $599. The Xoom's high price has stigmatized it from the beginning as being uncompetitive with Apple's iPad.
But today's price drop changed that: the Xoom's specifications now make it quite competitive with Apple's iPad. For example, the $499 Xoom with the Android 3.1 operating system has 32GB of flash storage and 1GB of system memory versus the $499 iPad's 16GB and 512KB, respectively.
Motorola's new pricing also takes on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1, whose Android 3.1-based Wi-Fi version is priced at $499 with 16GB of memory and 1GB of system memory.
And Toshiba's 10-inch Android 3.1 tablet is even cheaper. For $429, the Thrive--now up for sale--packs 8GB of flash storage and 1GB of system memory. A model with 16GB of flash is $479, undercutting the price of the similarly configured iPad and Xoom. Two features of note are the Thrive's removable battery and SD card slot, distinguishing it from the Xoom and iPad.
Topping the Xoom, iPad, and Thrive in the bang-for-the-buck department is Acer's 10-inch Iconia. The Iconia starts at $449 with 16GB of flash storage and 1GB system memory.
Topping them all on raw pricing is the well-established low-price leader, the 10-inch Android-based Asus Eee Pad Transformer, at $399.
But today's price drop changed that: the Xoom's specifications now make it quite competitive with Apple's iPad. For example, the $499 Xoom with the Android 3.1 operating system has 32GB of flash storage and 1GB of system memory versus the $499 iPad's 16GB and 512KB, respectively.
Motorola's new pricing also takes on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1, whose Android 3.1-based Wi-Fi version is priced at $499 with 16GB of memory and 1GB of system memory.
And Toshiba's 10-inch Android 3.1 tablet is even cheaper. For $429, the Thrive--now up for sale--packs 8GB of flash storage and 1GB of system memory. A model with 16GB of flash is $479, undercutting the price of the similarly configured iPad and Xoom. Two features of note are the Thrive's removable battery and SD card slot, distinguishing it from the Xoom and iPad.
Topping the Xoom, iPad, and Thrive in the bang-for-the-buck department is Acer's 10-inch Iconia. The Iconia starts at $449 with 16GB of flash storage and 1GB system memory.
Topping them all on raw pricing is the well-established low-price leader, the 10-inch Android-based Asus Eee Pad Transformer, at $399.
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