The Xoom appears to have a February 24 launch date and $800 price tag based. We saw leaked pricing from Verizon earlier and this Best Buy leak seems to confirm. The data pricing on the Xoom will be 1 GB for $20, 3GB for $35, 5GB for $50, or 10 GB for $80. The device is expensive and data plans are expensive. I suspect this is not a subsidized price and data pricing is on a month-to-month basis, thus no contract required. Hopefully we will quickly see some type of a mail-in-rebate, around $300 would be nice.
This is priced like the most expensive iPad with 3G but the challenge is not having lower priced devices like the iPad. I could purchase a Dell Adamo for the same price as the Motorola Xoom. This will be a hard pricing point for most users as it is over what they are willing to pay on a desktop or laptop computer for the most part.
See the Motorola Xoom portal for most device information.
[Source Engadget]
