Motorola XOOM Finally Unveiled..

[Sushubh]

actually i think verizon is to be blamed here. most mobile companies selling their devices in the US market are pretty much dependent upon the carriers. without their support, they struggle. google nexus one was a good example.

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and this is a rumor at the moment. that statement was seen on a leaked promo material for best buy. things could change before the launch expected for february 14. i have my doubts though. in any case xoom is just the first device and things are going to change comprehensively with the launch of other models based on android 3.0 in the coming weeks/months.

 

[moindear]

Pity. People there have to go thru all these kind of telecom providers

 

[Sushubh]

well... americans are not used to paying more than 200/300 dollars for their smartphones. in fact, most of them are used to paying zero dollars for the phone. before the smartphones became popular, almost all the feature phones were either free or below USD 50 with a contract.

 

[moindear]

But before iPhone they were the crappiest phones in the world, almost every phone being a flap phone.When I was there for the first time, I preferred prepaid (on the go) since all the phones were pathetic compared to my SE W800iNow they have all the lock-in smart phones. Bcos Nokia is down they get the best phones now

 

[Sushubh]

well times change. and things change with them. we used to have black and white television sets. now we have 3D HDTVs. anyways... two of the best mobile phones i have ever owned are... Panasonic GD88 and Nokia 2600... both are feature phones. I have also owned the original Motorola RAZR. Loved that phone too.

 

[moindear]

RAZR was the odd one out in the crappy mobile phone stable of Motorola. But recently with Droid, they are getting better.Nokia were the undisputed No.1 then with phones which can withstand any rough conditions with awesome battery backup and best features. Those were the days...But still iPad2 will eat up into XOOM if that contract clause is true

 

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[Sushubh]

well... you are missing the point. people going for ipad would go for ipad irrespective of the price tag. people do not want to go for the ipad (for one reason or the other) would not go for it no matter what. xoom is just ONE of the HUNDREDS of Android 3.0 Tablets that would arrive in the market. there would be tablets that would be subsidized by the carriers that would drive down the costing to smartphone level in the near future. ipad has pretty much no competition. there are two kinds of smartphone buyers in the market... one who can stand the Apple's arrogance and ios' limitations. and the others who cannot. i am in the second group. i still would not buy an iPhone/ipad in its current form. and this i say having spent around 60K in the last 12 months on 2 Android devices.

 

[Nishant]

there are two kinds of smartphone buyers in the market... one who can stand the Apple's arrogance and ios' limitations. and the others who cannot. i am in the second group.



Please add me too to the second group :urock:

 

[dsneih]

Motorola's iPad-rival "Xoom" tablet sales slashed to 100,000 units

The Xoom has been hampered by a high initial price, low build quality, hardware features that were missing or nonfunctional, operating system and bundled software that was incomplete and unrefined, a scarcity of tablet-optimized applications and what appears to be a general absence of interest in tablets outside of the iPad.