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Motorola confirms Xoom Android tablet onsale in UK next week

First UK Android Honeycomb tablet finally launches

By | PC Advisor | 29 March 11

Motorola has just confirmed to PC Advisor that it will start selling the 10.1in Xoom Android Honeycomb-based tablet in the UK from next week. Motorola is the launch partner for the Google Android Honeycomb platform – the first version the Google Android operating system written specifically for tablet devices.

First UK Android Honeycomb tablet finally launches

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Motorola started selling the Xoom tablet in the US on 24 February and rumours of its immiment UK launch have circled ever since. At Mobile World Congress in mid-February, Motorola was demonstrating finished samples of the Xoom tablet, with some executives using what they claimed were their own Xoom tablets. Along with the RIM BlackBerry Playbook, which is available for preorder in the US and Canada with shipping promised for 19 April, the Xoom looks like being both one of the first and one of the strongest tablets to launch that could seriously challenge the might of the Apple iPad 2.

The Motorola Xoom will cost £499 for the Wi-Fi edition in the UK and will be sold through Dixons Store Group retails chain Dixons, PC World and Currys. It has also been listed SIM-free for for sale on a range of UK-based e-tailers such as Clove and King Of Gadgets.

Several other Google Android Honeycomb devices from well-known manufacturers are set to launch in the coming weeks. The  HTC Flyer is being listed at Expansys as onsale in the UK from 5 May, while last week Samsung announced that its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet would launch as a Honeycomb device, rather than the Android Froyo 2.2 version that was shown at MWC.

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BishopsPair said: Yep and the Xoom 3G version is now up for pre-order at Carphone Warehouse in UK wwwbitlygw15Wp as there it will be available by next week presumably

Lakota said: The price had better be damn well what it was when I pre-ordered it on day one of it appearing on Dixons website Ill be pretty narked if they decide to sell it 50 quid less seeing as they took my money immediately

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