Original iPad price cut by £100, while Motorola Xoom may arrive here in April

Apple has cut the price of the original iPad by £100 to £329 on its website "while stocks last" - though it's hard to know whether those stocks will last until the iPad 2, retailing from £429, arrives on March 25. Meanwhile you can pre-order Motorola's Xoom 10-inch tablet from Dixon's in the UK: £499 gets you the 32GB version (the 32GB version of the iPad 2 doesn't have a price yet, but given the £70 delta between the 16GB and 32GB versions, it looks like the two will be level-pegging). Release date for the Xoom in the UK hasn't been announced yet, though it is expected by sources close to the company to be some time in April. From a hands-on with Honeycomb at Mobile World Congress in March (on a Samsung tablet), I would say that some of its tweaks seem to be trying too hard: the "carousel" effect of videos is flashy rather than informative, and some of the touch icons don't seem to be intuitive at all. (You can hear me interviewing Fraser Speirs , who has to evaluate tablets for schools, in the Tech Weekly podcast from a couple of weeks ago.) Meanwhile the Xoom might or might not have Flash Player available by the time it comes out in the UK - but that won't help its HTML5 performance . So, on balance, are you going to buy a Xoom? And if so, what do you intend to do with it - as in what specific purposes do you have in mind that you think it will be well-suited to? Because nobody buys something at that price just because it fulfils specifications.