Archos to make Android tablets for $150!

Sure, the iPad 2 will be awesome, but its base price is $500! The Motorola Xoom is also amazing, but it costs $600 with a 2-year contract ($800 without)! That's how many consumers feel about tablets. They're awesome, but not worth the price. Well, thanks to Archos, you'll soon be able to get an Android tablet for $150 or $200! Archos will make two tablets, an Arnova 10 and an Arnova 8. A Russian site has provided us with the specs of these tablets:

The Archos Arnova 10 will have a large 10.1" resistive touchscreen, and will run on Android 2.1. It will have a 600 MHz processor and have 8GB of flash storage. In April, a version of the Arnova 10 with a 1GHz Cortex-A8 and a capacitive touchscreen will be avaliable. The Arnova 8 will the same specs, except that the screen will be 8", it will have only 4GB of flash storage, and will cost just $150! These tablets should be out before April.

Xoom corp. is suing Motorola for stealing the name "Xoom"!

Xoom corporation is suing Motorola, saying it can't call its tablet the Xoom. While the Xoom tablet was released only 2 days ago, Xoom corporation has been operating online payments much longer, and has owned the domain http://www.xoom.com/ for 8 years.

I think that both Motorola and Xoom corporation should be allowed to keep the name Xoom. After all, how many people are going to buy a Motorola Xoom to find online payment services? Tech companies have often used names of other brands without getting sued. For example, Evo is the name of a winter gear company that has owned http://www.evo.com/ for a very long time, yet HTC still named their phone the Evo 4G.

Motorola Xoom up for Pre-Order; Release Date Feb. 24

February 24 really will be a big day! Not only will the new MacBook Pros come out, but the Motorola Xoom tablet will be released! You can pre-order it now on Best Buy. It will only be avaliable as a 3G model, and will have a rather high price tag of $800. Motorola should release a Wi-Fi only model a little bit later, and that will carry a price tag of $600. Meanwhile, I can supply you with information about this tablet:

- Runs on Android 3.0 (aka Honeycomb), the latest OS designed for tablets (will it only be for tablets?)
- 720p HD 10.1" display (even larger than the iPad's display, about the size of a netbook's)
- Verizon 3G service. Also Wi-Fi capable.
- Dual-core processor
- Supports Adobe Flash Player

Best Buy to accept Motorola Xoom pre-orders for $1,199 on Thursday?!

Of all the posts I've made on Tech n' Cars!, this has been the most shocking. Best Buy is going to accept pre-orders for the Motorola Xoom tablet on Thursday... okay... but for $1,199?!?! There isn't even anything to suggest this is a prank or a mistake! I mean, cool, this tablet has a bigger screen than an iPad and runs Honeycomb, but, I'd rather have a MacBook Pro, thank you very much.

Update: You're in luck: this is just a placeholder number that will soon get updated. The actual price will be $800, only $70 more than a 32GB 3G iPad.