Verizon has started selling the brand new Motorola Droid Xyboard 10.1 and Xyboard 8.2 tablets since a couple of weeks. If you are after one of these tablets, you can take advantage of the price drop offer from Verizon. There is 50$ price drop on both these tablets. You can now purchase the Motorola Droid Xyboard 10.1 16GB, 32GB, 64GB variants for $479.99, $579.99 and $679.99, while the Droid Xyboard 8.2-inch model can be had for $379.99 or $479.99 for 16GB or 32 gigabytes of on-board storages respectively.
Specs wise, both the Motorola Droid XYBOARD 10.1 and XYBOARD 8.2 tablets are having same set of technical specification except a few changes, running Android 3.2 Honeycomb OS. They are having dual core 1.2GHz TI processors, HD IPS displays (10.1 for Xyboard 10.1, 8.2-inch for Dorid Xyboard 8.2) with 1280 X 800 pixels of resolution, equipped with 5-megapixel main camera in addition to a 1.3-megapixel front-shooter to make video calls, 1GB of RAM to keep things running, preinstalled MotoCast app, Digit app, reinforced with Corning Gorilla Glass and protected by a water-repellent coating. Moto has already promsed that they will push out an OTA update of the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS in early 2012.
Motorola Droid XYBOARD 10.1 Full Specifications.
Motorola Droid XYBOARD 8.2 Full Specifications.
Check out our previous articles:
Droid Xyboard 10.1 Vs. Asus Transformer Prime Vs. Droid Xyboard 8.2: Specs Comparison.
Droid Xyboard 10.1 Vs. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Vs. Droid Xyboard 8.2: Specs Comparison.
Buy Online
Head over to Verizon Online Stores (hit the link) to buy Motorola Droid Xyboard 10.1 and Droid Xyboard 8.2 tablets, with $50 price drop offer on the original price tags and you need to sign a new 2-year contract with the carrier.
Source: Verizon
Why doesn’t Verizon subsidize tablet prices like they do for phones? Having a tablet with LTE would be great because for $30 you get 2GB of data that you can share via wireless hot spot. Additional data is $10 per GB. Compare this to a MiFi, where the cheapest plan is $50 for 5 GB. If you’re not a huge data user, and the reason you have a MiFi is for a tablet, this will save you money on your monthly bill. That said, these have no external storage, unlike my Acer A500, which has a microSD slot and a full size USB port. These Xyboard tablets are way overpriced, but with subsidies from Verizon, they could be made more attractive.