Best Buy Takes a Mulligan on $1,200 Xoom Tablet Listing

Posted 02/14/2011 at 5:07am | by Paul Lilly

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Previous rumors and leaked documents pegged Motorola's Xoom tablet launching for $800 at Best Buy on February 24th, and if you thought that was high, you better hope the recent listing was a mistake. The electronics chain over the weekend listed the Tegra 2 tablet on its website for a penny shy of $1,200, which would put the tablet in a pricing tier all its own. Does Best Buy (and Motorola) really intend to charge that much?

We have our doubts, and not just because Best Buy has since removed the listing. The Xoom tablet isn't without plenty of hype, not the least of which is because it will be the first slate built around Google's Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) platform. As you know by now, Google designed Honeycomb from the ground up to run on tablets, and as such, this is a pretty big deal.

The Xoom also packs a fair amount of hardware, including Nvidia's Tegra 2 processor and 1GB of memory. But $1,200? We find that hard to fathom with the iPad 2, PlayBook, and TouchPad all around the corner.