Motorola Xoom price official: $799 unsubsidized on Verizon, $600 for WiFi-only

I can buy a 3G USB dongle for, what, £20? Heck, for that price difference, I can buy a whole 3G Kindle.<p>I find it very hard to believe they're both subsidised <i>that</i> heavily by their respective backers, so why (other than supporting the price of overpriced 3.7" tablets, er smartphones) is the 3G enabled tablet <i>so</i> much more expensive?

The main problem for me is that they destroyed trust by refusing to update the Android OS on some of their phones. Presumably the same thing will happen on the tablet.<p>I wish for a "Nexus One" of Honeycomb tablets...

Wow, completely amazing pricing. Going to get the wi-fi version. This completely blow away the current iPad. Has front/back facing camera with video capture, better resolution, dual-core processor with graphics acceleration, HDMI, USB, microSD, Android 3.0 etc. Good strategy of going after the high end. After all, in another 6 months you will be able to get the current iPad like specs on the low end for $300/$400 from commodity players.

Then it's doomed. Any tablet with a higher price than the iPad fails to generate any kind of lasting interest, I don't see why it will be different here.<p>Which is sad, the Xoom looks like a great tablet.

There's also Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1" coming out soon, wonder what the price would be for that device. With all this new subscription policy mess Apple is making, I'd rather be sure I have a Kindle and an Audible apps and not overpaying for the content, so I'm seriously considering an Android tablet.

Glad to see Moto doing the most sensible thing - Very appealing price even when compared against the yet-hypothetical iPad 2 which is not likely to have 1Gb of RAM, dual cameras or USB 2.0 port for that matter.

What an awful name. Of course the iPad gas a lame name, but at least it has an obvious pronunciation. I see "Xoom" and say "exhume" which means to dig a body up.<p>I think I smell the reek of death. Now if the exhume was only say, $300 for the wifi only unit, they'd have something. Even $400 would be too much for what consumers will call a "generic iPad" as even the hard-up could find another $99 if they already had $400 to drop on a toy like a tablet.<p>Exhume indeed. This may illustrate to clever marketers that for a lot of people, the obvious and seemingly correct pronunciation for a clever brand might bite them. My grandpa called Qwest "queue west" as they made him wait for a customer service agent too long for his liking. He was onto something.

$600 is a good price point. Great to see that they will not only be selling a $800 model.

That $600 is a good price point for this device. I'm tempted to get one...

$299 for the 3g, $250 for the wifi, then we'll talk.