In case you missed it, last weekend Best Buy briefly had Motorola's upcoming Xoom tablet priced at $1,199.99 on its Web site, announcing it would be available for preorder on February 17. Well, as rumors suggested, that price tag was only "placeholder" pricing, and Motorola Mobility's CEO Sanjay Jha today confirmed that the 10.1-inch tablet would sell for an unsubsidized $799 at Verizon Wireless, with a Wi-Fi-only version priced at around $600.
Reuters reported that Jha, who's in Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress trade show, remarked to reporters, "Competing with Apple you have to deliver premium products." Jha also said that nearly all Motorola products will use Google's Android software this year and that he was as focused on Android as he'd ever been. Still, he hoped alternatives to Android, such as Microsoft's Windows Phone7 , would remain on the market. Additionally, Jha said the company was "looking at possibly having its own application store."
