The price of the Motorola Xoom WiFi has been cut seemingly everywhere, no longer making Costco the go-to place for the first Honeycomb tablet. You can now grab the Xoom for only $499 in most places and even cheaper at Staples.
The Motorola Store, Amazon, and Staples now carry the tablet for the new $499 price point and the latter has a coupon code that will shave off an extra $50 from the overall price (51758). It took Moto long enough to bring the tablet’s pricing down but we’re wondering if it’s whether the competition is besting the Xoom, or if the price cut is a sign of things to come.
Even with its competitive pricing, we’d still call the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 the best Android Honeycomb tablet available, which bests the Xoom in a handful of ways. That said, the Xoom itself is more fully featured since it comes with more ports but it’s the Galaxy Tab’s weight and thinness that make it more desirable to most.
Is the price cut for the Honeycomb tablet a result of slow(er) sales or does it mean that we’ll soon see a successor? Not long ago we saw a mysterious, unknown tablet in a Verizon ad and many thought it to be the Motorola Xoom 2. While we’d love a thinner and lighter Xoom, it would make the original’s shelf life pretty short, as it debuted in February of this year.
If the price cut of the Xoom is indeed a result of a newer tablet on the horizon the question now is whether you want to wait for the successor or grab the existing model now. We could imagine the Xoom to ship with a thinner and lighter design but would that be worth the extra cash? Probably, but we’d really hope to see Motorola ship the Xoom sequel with something like NVIDIA’s Kal-El quad-core SoC. That would definitely make things more interesting.
[Via: Droid-Life]