14 DAY TRIAL // Sam's Club, the chain of retail warehouse clubs owned and operated by Wal-Mart, has just introduced the Motorola XOOM to its offering.
The 3G version of the tablet is now available for purchase for $599.74 with a new two-year Verizon contract.
Customers who buy the device with the attached 2-year data agreement will receive 5GB of data for $50 a month with a $10 per GB overage fee.
Currently, Motorola XOOM is available from Verizon for $599.99 with a new two-year contract. Those who want to avoid being tied by a long-term plan can purchase the unlocked version for $799.99.
Sam's Club is advertising the XOOM as a 4G LTE device, but customers will have to send it in to Motorola for an upgrade, at a later date.
Unfortunately, there's no official word on the Wi-Fi only version of the tablet, but rumors suggest that it might be introduced soon with a $539.99 price tag.
Motorola XOOM is one of the first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets available on the market and one of the main competitors of the iPad.
Even though it does not feature GSM voice communication capabilities, the XOOM includes a wide range of other connectivity features such as HSDPA and HSUPA, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and EDR support, as well as microUSB 2.0 and built-in GPS.
Thanks to the 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 AP20H dual core CPU, the tablet is capable of running some of the latest games and apps especially developed for this kind of processor.
Motorola XOOM has a large 10.1-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen with 16 million colors support and 800 x 1280 pixels resolution. It packs 32 GB of internal memory, 1 GB RAM, as well as a microSD card slot for memory expansion.
However, it seems that the tablet cannot actually use memory cards at launch. The manufacturer has stated that support for microSD cards up to 32GB will be available in the future after a software upgrade.