Motorola Xoom Coming to Verizon February 24
Verizon Wireless on Tuesday announced that it will start selling the Motorola Xoom on February 24. The tablet, which was named PCMag's best tablet of CES, will be available for $599.99 with a two-year contract or $799.99 without a contract.
Wireless 3G data will run $20 per month for 1GB, and the Xoom will be upgradeable to Verizon's 4G LTE service for free in the second quarter. Reports about the Xoom release date circulated earlier this month when the Facebook page for a Grand Rapids Best Buy said that the device would be released on February 24. Best Buy later said the information was posted in error and pulled the post.
Motorola chief Sanjay Jha, meanwhile, revealed pricing for the Xoom at last week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Xoom is a 10.1-inch tablet running a 1-GHz dual-core processor and Android Honeycomb. It has a front-facing 2-megapixel camera for video chat and a rear-facing 5-megapixel camera for HD video capture.
For more, see PCMag's hands on with the Xoom. The Xoom made headlines this weekend when it was revealed that the device will not ship with Adobe's Flash. In a follow-up blog post, Adobe said that it "will offer Flash Player 10.2 pre-installed on some tablets and as an OTA download on others within a few weeks of Android 3 (Honeycomb) devices becoming available, the first of which is expected to be the Motorola Xoom."
Adobe said it is "excited about the progress we've made optimizing Flash for tablets" and said it expects to see Flash installed on more than 132 million devices by year's end.
"Consumers are clearly asking for Flash support on tablet devices and the good news is that they won't have to wait long," the company said. "We are aware of over 50 tablets that will ship in 2011 supporting a full web experience (including Flash support) and Xoom users will be among the first to enjoy this benefit."
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