There’s an update to the pricing on the Motorola Xoom tablet that captured everyone’s imagination at CES. Originally, we reported that it may comein at just under $700, Well, it’s a bit pricer, as Droid Life has confirmed with the circular below that the price for the Xoom will be a hundred bucks more at $799, But it gets worse as Motorola is holding customers hostage with a must have data plan to unlock WiFi …
It’s insidious, really. Best Buy or Motorola will refuse to unlock the WiFi capabilty of the Xoom unless users sign up for the “optional” Verizon data plan at $20 a month with a one month minimum. Users are free to cancel anytime after that first month. But why not just charge $20 more and be done with it? Oh yeah, because at $800 it’s an obscene price point to begin with.
The Xoom will be available at Best Buy beginning Thursday, February 24th.
[via Droid Life]
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if they dropped the price by 50% i’d just buy it and wait for root. it will be sad to see this tablet fail.
Seriously? You have to buy another product to open a major functionality of the overpriced tablet? And I thought Apple was the techno-gangsta. We have a new gangsta partnership on the block – their names are Verizon and Motorola.
Verizon is probably kicking back more than $20 for each data plan sign-up. That’s why Motorola isn’t unlocking for $20.
Hello Moto… FAIL!!
If this thing is not heavily subsidized, no one will buy it. how do they expect to compete with the ipad if people have to spend $300 more just to get one.
I might pass this up in favor of the LG G Slate if t-mobile has a subsidized price.
$800 is way too much money, especially if they start doing what Apple does and release a “next gen” device every year.
They shot themselves in the foot again ! I hope they watch the cob webs grow on the stacks of them and wonder did we make a boo boo!