Those leaked ads showing an $800 sticker price for the Android 3.0-powered Xoom tablet through Verizon Wireless have been confirmed by Motorola's chief exec, who adds that a cheaper, Wi-Fi-only alternative is also on the way.
Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha told Reuters on Wednesday that the 32GB Xoom will sell for an unsubsidized $799 (we'll go ahead and round that up to 800 bucks) when it lands in Verizon's mobile lineup—about $70 pricier than the 32GB iPad 3G, but considerably cheaper than the $1,199 figure that had been floating around in recent days.
Jha added that a Wi-Fi-only version of the Xoom is also on tap, with a price tag of "around" $600, according to Reuters, the same price as the 32GB Wi-Fi-only iPad.
Jha didn't give a specific release date for the Xoom, which is slated to arrive sometime this quarter, although word has it that the tablet could hit Best Buy as early as Thursday. Moto says a 4G version of the Xoom will follow the initial 3G model, which itself will eventually be upgradable to 4G.
The Xoom is among the first devices to run on Android 3.0 "Honeycomb," the tablet-centric version of Google's Android OS. The tablet boasts a 10.1-inch display, twin cameras, and a dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor under the hood.
The Xoom follows such Android 2.2-powered tablets as the Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Dell Streak 7, with the initially pricey Tab seeing steep discounts in the past several weeks—so don't be surprised if Xoom gets its own price cuts down the road.
Other Android 3.0 tablets expected in the months ahead include the LG G-Slate for T-Mobile and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, with non-Android competitors such as the WebOS-powered HP TouchPad, the BlackBerry Playbook, and the expected iPad 2 waiting in the wings.
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Motorola's Xoom tablet priced at $799 [Reuters]
— Ben Patterson is a technology blogger for Yahoo! News.
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