Motorola to Launch Xoom on February 17 for $700
Mon Jan 24, 2011
3:20 pm
The Schaumburg, Ill.-based company's new tablet, which was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month, will be priced at $700 from Verizon, and feature a 10.1-inch touch screen display, a 5.0-megapixel main camera and a 2.0-megapixel camera front-facing camera for video calls. The Xoom also runs on Google's new Android "Honeycomb" software, specifically optimized for larger screen tablets.
A few weeks ago, Verizon released a teaser video for the Xoom, announcing plans to begin selling a 3G version of the Xoom in the first quarter. The carrier will release an upgraded 4G-verizon in the second quarter.
The Xoom is one of the first tablets to run on Google's new Honeycomb software. A slew of Android tablets were unveiled at CES, as the Internet giant attempts to catch up to rival Apple and its iPad.
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