Dixons drops Motorola Xoom price... again
Retailer blinks first, before punters
Dixons has knocked the price of the 32GB Motorola Xoom tablet to £329 - not at all bad when you consider the fondleslab was priced at £500 at launch.
And the other 32GB Xoom, the one with 3G connectivity as well as Wi-Fi, is now just £400, down from £580.
Both versions run Android 3.0 Honeycomb - though Android 3.1 is now available to download as an update - on a 10.1in, 1280 x 800 touchscreen. The whole thing runs on an Nvidia Tegra 2 CPU.
In the middle of August, Dixons lowered the Wi-Fi only price to £400. Clearly, that wasn't enough to pull in the punters, and it feels it has to drop the price even further. Will it tempt you?
COMMENTS
Around £200-£225......
...then we'll talk.
Otherwise All tablets are too overpriced for my tastes. If I have over £300 to spend them I'm buying a laptop.
Yes I still call them laptops, big whoop, wanna fight about it?
No
It just means the tech savvy peeps are clever enough to wait for a tablet that is not astronomically overpriced.
Mines the one with the Archos G9 in the pocket.
Interestink, but
It still needs another £150 off.
PC whirled, for example, have a SAMSUNG NP-NC110 for £249. And that has a 250G hard disk and a keyboard. And 11 hour battery life. And it's purple.
Re: Does it blend?
Tablets vs netbooks? For me, the tablet is a fraction of the bulk, at lot less weight and displays comics and books it portrait mode perfectly.
This is why I sold my netbook.
HDMI, USB etc? Don't need 'em - got 'em on my laptop. Physical keyboard ditto. But I'd rather pull out my tablet on a plane or on the sofa for a quick read/surf/email than the notebook. Or the netbook.
