Tegra 2-powered Xoom Tab in Best Buy Feb. 24

[JMcEntegart]

You’ve been coveting the Motorola Xoom since it was announced at CES during the first week of January....

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[joytech22]

Oh my god IT'S CHRISTMAS!! (Ellis reference of excitement)

Now if they sell that for anything under $700 here I'll snap one up in half a day eventually, when I get time.

 

[christop]

Nice specs. How much?

 

[ericburnby]

Going to be a tough sell. Too many new tablets coming out will only confuse the average consumer. There's not enough of a tablet market to allow each of these new entries to sell millions of their version. And if the Xoom (or others) do take off and sell like hotcakes, than that'll mean that dozens of other tablets will simply disappear.

Then there's the iPad 2 which will be announced shortly. How many people are simply going to wait for the iPad 2, not to buy but even to just simply compare side-by-side in the store before buying?

 

[cookoy]

guess a compass is cheaper than GPS. gyroscope and barometer? might as well throw in a thermometer, speedometer, and parking meter.

 

[mayankleoboy1]

^ :lol:

 

[Guest]

The Xoom will have a GPS.

 

[eddieroolz]

I didn't expect it to be released so soon.

 

[Griffolion]

[citation][nom]ericburnby[/nom]Going to be a tough sell. Too many new tablets coming out will only confuse the average consumer. There's not enough of a tablet market to allow each of these new entries to sell millions of their version. And if the Xoom (or others) do take off and sell like hotcakes, than that'll mean that dozens of other tablets will simply disappear.Then there's the iPad 2 which will be announced shortly. How many people are simply going to wait for the iPad 2, not to buy but even to just simply compare side-by-side in the store before buying?[/citation]

A few people i know are waiting for the iPad, some others who are sitting on the fence. All i did was explain to the fence sitters about the Xoom and what it does, not even making any reference to the iPad, simply selling it on it's own merit, and they weren't sitting the fence much longer!

 

[cknobman]

Official price will be $799. No wifi unless you activate Verizon wireless data on it.

Sorry but this is way overpriced and Verizons f'ing Nazi dictatorship on the data screws the whole deal.

Ill pass.

 

[meat81]

Please pardon my ignorance but how is a 1280x800 HD display going to display 1080p video?

 

[alextheblue]

[citation][nom]meat81[/nom]Please pardon my ignorance but how is a 1280x800 HD display going to display 1080p video?[/citation]Same way you display it on a 720p plasma. By downscaling it. The reason they mention it is because they're saying it has enough horsepower to decode (play) the 1080p video without requiring you to re-encode it on a computer first. That is important. Yes, you won't be viewing it at full native 1080p resolution, but on a 10" display the pixel density is high enough you won't be able to tell, as long as they scale it properly.

For reference, the Xoom's 1280 x 800 display is significantly higher resolution than the iPad, which stands at 1024 x 768. Granted, the iPad's screen is slightly smaller, but even so it still has a lower pixel density than the Xoom. The Xoom has a PPI of 160, vs the iPad's 132 PPI.