The MID816 has similar specs to the Galaxy Tab and costs less than $250. The Viewsonic G has the faster Tegra2 and costs around $400. The Motorola Xoom is coming out soon. End of Feb? Super Bowl commercial released.
Here are some links
http://www.knowyourmobile.com/comparisons/751872/motorola_xoom_vs_apple_ipad_2.html
We recently compared the Motorola XOOM with the original iPad and the XOOM emerged victorious.
http://www.knowyourmobile.com/blog/752209/android_overtakes_symbian_as_worlds_number_one_os.html
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2378980,00.asp
The XOOM is not even a shipping or even a manufactured product yet... it was presented at CES as a mock-up and a video of PROSPECTIVE use using a yet to be released OS. The hardware hasn't even been released to golden master yet for manufacturing as far as I've heard. That's kind of hard to compare a proposed hot air product to an existing, shipping product that's been on the market for NINE MONTHS. Get back to us when XOOM finally ships... or provides one for a REAL review.
Knowyourmobile is not comparing tablets. In one article, they’re comparing the iPad and Xoom spec sheets; in the other, they’re comparing the Xoom spec sheet with iPad runoff.
The main reason being the cheap resistive display and small, low-life battery. I'm sure the cheap construction and lack of engineering in the case helped control costs. Good luck getting support too. You get what you pay for.
The Viewsonic G looks pretty good, if you blow away the included OS and falsh your own. So for right now it's a geek toy, not ready for the consumer space.
We recently compared the Motorola XOOM with the original iPad and the XOOM emerged victorious.
In that article they compared the Xoom with the expected iPad 2 specs, and the iPad 2 won. They linked another article comparing the yet-to-be-released Xoom with the year-old iPad, and of course the Xoom won. I do notice battery life, an all-important killer feature in tablets, is absent in the comparisons. Any idea what the Xoom gets? In any case, I don't put much stock in highly speculative hardware mashups.
The Xoom does look like a very good product, but notice the price, right in the iPad's range. You don't get a quality tablet for $250.