Well This May Change My Buying Decision

[wgragg]

Motorola XOOM Will Not See 4G LTE Before the Galaxy Tab 10.1 - Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog

Looks like the Xoom will be waiting for LTE for a while. I think Motorola just shot themselves in the foot. If the Tab 10.1 runs the Tegra 2 chipset, like Motorola, why couldn't Moto get LTE to work while Samsung can?

If it wasn't for the fact the Tab doesn't have SD support, etc., I'd go that route in a heartbeat. Now I am really in a quandary.

 

[siscim23]

and then today Verizon announced the Galaxy Tab 10.1 which will have live 4G LTE out of the box this month

Also not true.

 

[wgragg]

Which? That it will have live 4g out of the box or that it will be this month. I don't doubt the former, but the latter may well be speculation. Considering though, that Sanjay also stated (covered in a different story) that the Bionic and 4G for Xoom will be released at the same time, it is very likely that customers will have a 4G tablet from Samsung before existing customers owning Xooms get theirs.

Isn't the Bionic scheduled for August?

 

[siscim23]

The 4G 10.1 won't be out this month. Pre orders start June 8 for an unknown summer release date.

 

[kennycrudup]

Our issue is ONLY about availability of newly-certified parts. Be patient.

 

[Chrisy]

I'm still undecided on which tab to get.

 

[Lactose The Intolerant]

I'm still undecided on which tab to get.

To paraphrase that old bumper sticker: "You can have my Xoom when you pry it out of my cold dead fingers" ... day 1 wifi adopter...

This close to release - probably a good idea to hold off and test drive both of them - but I will say that the Xoom does everything I need it to do and it continues to exceed my expectations.

 

[AsteriskCGY]

Then again, Asus Eee transformer on sale on Newegg for the same 500 Xoom was on yesterday. Minus Dock. Which might've been its whole point.

 

[dreT86]

When its all said and done the xoom will be better. After you none wifi owners get 4g I'm sure everything will be better. Also the xooms 32 gig SD card future support really sets it part from the tab 10.1 . The xoom has so grow into its body.

 

[moosc]

Then again, Asus Eee transformer on sale on Newegg for the same 500 Xoom was on yesterday. Minus Dock. Which might've been its whole point.

But is it the 32gb model. So may people miss this. And it aggravates me

Sent from my Xoom using Tapatalk

 

[Suntan]

But is it the 32gb model. So may people miss this. And it aggravates me

Yup. 32GB TF is $500. The 16GB is $400.

Newegg.com - ASUS Eee Pad Transformer (TF101-B1) Tablet NVIDIA Tegra 2 10.1" Wide SVGA 1GB DDR2 Memory 32GB Flash HDD NVIDIA ULP GeForce

-Suntan

 

[erzhik]

Galaxy tab will not receive LTE out the gate, it will be available for preorder, but it could take weeks or months for it to become available. There is still no proof that 10.1 will receive 4g first.

 

[Suntan]

If it wasn't for the fact the Tab doesn't have SD support, etc., I'd go that route in a heartbeat. Now I am really in a quandary.

The folks at Phandroid seem to think the LTE version of the 10.1 will have an SD slot.

Verizon’s 4G LTE Tab 10.1 Pre-Orders Coming June 8th, Too

-Suntan

 

[siscim23]

What, why would they do that? There's no way they would make and release a tablet without the SD then release another model a month or two later with it. Same reason the WiFi Xoom has the SIM card slot... it would be too expensive to change the body just to remove/add something like that.

 

[Suntan]

What, why would they do that? There's no way they would make and release a tablet without the SD then release another model a month or two later with it. Same reason the WiFi Xoom has the SIM card slot... it would be too expensive to change the body just to remove/add something like that.

Bring it up with the Phandroid guys...

In any case, it would be easy to see why if Verizon was willing to pay for it. Verizon likes to hold out exclusives for things.

-Suntan

 

[siscim23]

Then again... if the Samsung has absolutely no ports but the proprietary USB, where would the SIM card go?