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Yesterday we saw the WiFi-only Xoom get its UK pricing straightened out at £500 via PC World, and today Carphone Warehouse is putting up pre-order availability of the 3G-equipped version at a nice round hundie more. The £600 Xoom 3G is listed as “in stock” now, but deliveries will likely take until the first week of April to get going, assuming Moto is delivering both SKUs of its Android 3.0 tablet at the same time. We’ve also come across an Amazon.de pre-order for the Xoom, asking for €700, but alas there’s no hint as to whether it includes 3G connectivity or not — no hint other than the price, that is.

[Thanks, Yosef]

Motorola Xoom 3G arrives in UK for £600, gets enigmatic listing on Amazon.de for €700 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Mar 2011 06:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Maybe PC World is trying to sneak the bad news in under the cover of the iPad 2 launch, but it’s returned Motorola’s Xoom tablet to its pre-order systems with a far less pleasing price than before: £500. It was £450 yesterday, but our suspicions were raised by the impossibility of actually pre-ordering one, and sure enough, now that you’re able to sign yourself up to be among the first in Europe to own a Xoom, it’ll cost you a 50 note more. Launch is scheduled for the first week of April, we’re told, and PC World has a tentative April 9th delivery date. Yours, if you want it, at the source link below.

Motorola Xoom returns to PC World UK, this time at £500, promises April 9th delivery originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Finally Motorola gives us a chance to say something positive about its pricing of the 10.1-inch, Tegra 2-powered Xoom tablet. UK electronics retailer PC World has just put up its Xoom pre-order page, which will surprise many waking Brits with an extremely reasonable £450 ($730) asking price. That’s £60 less than the direct competitor 32GB WiFi-only iPad — the Xoom only has one storage option of 32GB and the model listed here comes without 3G — and perhaps more importantly, is only £10 more than the 16GB version of Apple’s tablet. It’s common knowledge that to take on the iPad empire you’ll have to at the very least match its price, and Moto is doing even better than that in the UK. There’s only one worrying sign, we haven’t been able to place a Xoom into our shopping basket yet, as the “Pre-order today” button seems to be malfunctioning, but we’re guessing that’s a temporary glitch that will be fixed without the price shooting up skywards.

Update: T-Mobile Germany has also revealed its Xoom pricing, this time for the 3G model: €699.95. Distribution will begin at the end of April and T-Mo will have a three-month exclusive on the tablet in its native land. The pricing positions the Xoom a mere 95 Euro cents above the 32GB-equipped iPad WiFi + 3G, meaning that your choice will truly come down to preference and not economics. See T-Mobile’s full press release after the break.

Update 2: The PC World price and pre-order have been pulled. Gulp. Let’s hope they comes back unchanged.

[Thanks, John]

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Motorola prices WiFi-only Xoom at £450 in the UK (update: €700 in Germany with 3G) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Mar 2011 05:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Xoom’s big attraction may be the ethereal Honeycomb that oozes within it, but it’s still a gadget made of metal, silicon and plastic, so we’re as keen as anyone to see what its insides look like. iFixit has dutifully performed the task of tearing one down to its constituent components and found an Atmel touchscreen controller capable of picking up 15 inputs at a time, a Qualcomm MDM6600 chip capable of 14.4Mbps HSPA+ speeds, some Toshiba NAND flash memory, and of course, NVIDIA’s beloved Tegra 2 dual-core SOC. The conclusion reached was that the Xoom is relatively easy to repair, though you should be aware there are no less than 57 screws holding the thing together, so free up a nice long afternoon if you intend to disassemble one yourself.

Aside from Moto’s flagship tablet, iFixit has also gotten to grips with Apple’s latest MacBook Pro, the one that can do Thunderbolt-fast transfers with as yet nonexistent peripherals, though discoveries there were predictably few and far between. The wireless card now has four antennas instead of three and there are some changes made to the cooling systems, but the real reason you’ll want to see this is the quad-core Sandy Bridge CPU lurking within — it’s as big and imposing as the performance it promises to deliver.

Motorola Xoom and Thunderbolt-equipped MacBook Pro get torn down originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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When will the Motorola Xoom, ahem, justify its price point with a dose of Verizon’s speedy LTE? According to an allegedly leaked Verizon document at Droid-Life, it seems we’ll see it by the end of May. You can read the rest for yourself immediately above, but if you have an aversion to JPEG images we’ll also spell out the salient points here: the upgrade will reportedly be completely free, including shipping; both hardware and software tweaks will be carried out by Motorola; and the whole process will take up to six business days. If these facts are all correct (and we don’t honestly doubt a one), you should see them mirrored at our more coverage link in the days to come.

Update: The official Xoom LTE upgrade site is now live confirming that the process will take six business days to complete after shipping it off to Verizon in a FedEx box, free of charge. Unfortunately, VZW won’t say exactly when the upgrade will be available, going only so far as to say “shortly after launch.”

Motorola Xoom will get LTE in ‘approximately 90 days,’ requires one week for hardware upgrade (updated) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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