Foursquare, the mobile application that allows you to check into locations around town like a lab-rat in a maze, can now tell you where to go as well. Now that’s a feature! Impress your friends by earning meaningless badges. Get drunk at your favorite watering hole and post compromising picturesRobert Scoble does it. Who are you to decide it’s a pointless waste of time?
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As the Tablet Wars cross-pollinate with battles between cell carriers like Verizon, ATT, and T-Mobile, expect the same price-point footsie you saw when the iPhone came out (remember how jazzed you were to pay $600 for one in 2007?). And here’s the first salvo in that battle – snag the Motorola Xoom running Android’s Honeycomb OS for $800 at retail (viz the iPad’s price-point) or drop your pants for a 2-year contract and save $200. Such a deal!
Verizon Prices Motorola Xoom at $600 With a 2-Year Contract.
Thanks to our friends at Retrevo for this handy comparison of tablets currently on the market.
According to Mashable’s Jolie O’Dell, Motorola’s Xoom tablet running the long-anticipated Android Honeycomb operating system, will sell for about $800. We saw Xoom and got a preview of Honeycomb during CES this month. Xoom will be one of the first Verizon 4G LTE devices; and the first one to run Honeycomb (a 3rd generation operating system from Google’s Android). Smartphones and Internet appliances running versions 1.6 and 2.2 of Android (known as the Froyo system) have previously been seen, but this will be the first time a tablet will be seen. Xoom also features 1080p screen resolution, front- and rear-facing cameras (2MP and 5MP, respectively), HDMI output, and an accelerometer.
3G and Wi-Fi-enabled Xoom tablets should be available at the end of the first quarter of this year.
What’s your take on the matter: Will Motorola’s first Android tablet be worth $800 out of the gate? In the comments, let us know your opinions.
“Ever-improving networks and a big hardware announcement that will send handset prices plummeting both point to smartphone growth in 2011 that could totally eclipse anything we’ve seen before.” – Fortune Online
While this article from Fortune Magazine focuses on the practicalities of the see-saw battle between the iPhone and the growing army of Android-powered devices, all I know is that I can feel the momentum building; and not just in the public domain but in my own house.
Even I feel as if even I am approaching the tipping point at which open Android apps will match, and maybe surpass, the exquisite but closed matrix of creativity from Steve Jobs and company.
We’ll see if I really change my mind. One thing for sure: it will be a close call.
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