NRI Sanjay
Jha Motorola's co-CEO justifies the $799 price of “Xoom”
Chicago, Feb. 17, 2011
Motorola came clean with the $799 price tag for the 3G/4G Xoom tablet. Motorola Xoom pre-sale 'confirmed' for Feb. 20, Atrix 4G on Feb. 22
The Motorola XOOM was unveiled at CES 2011 and will be the first tablet to run on Android 3.0 Honeycomb.The Xoom was used by Google in a demo of Honeycomb earlier this month at its headquarters.
The much-awaited tablet will possess a 10.1-inch touchscreen with 1280x800 resolution and a 5-megapixel rear-camera with 720p HD recording. It also has a 2-megapixel camera in front, and an HDMI port, and a dual-core 1Ghz processor.
Motorola's Xoom will cost a tad more than the competition, but company co-CEO Sanjay Jha has an explanation for why that might be: he told reporters that the Android Honeycomb tablet's price is justified by the promise of speedy 4G internet. Of course, the $800 Xoom doesn't actually come with 4G connectivity out of the gate, but Jha told reporters that the Xoom's LTE upgrade will be free, and that wonder of wonders, the tablet will be capable of pulling down 50 megabit per second speeds
