Xoom does better than expected

28.04.2011
Motorola Mobility shipped 250,000 Xoom tablets in the first month the device was available, the company said on Thursday as part of its first-quarter earnings report.

The tablet, the first to run Google's Android Honeycomb OS, went on sale in late February. Within weeks, several analysts said early sales were disappointing. In early April, that Motorola had sold a total of 100,000 of the tablets.

Shipping a quarter of a million in a month isn't quite the same as initial iPad shipments, but the number appears to be better than many had expected.

During the quarter, Motorola Mobility also started selling the Atrix, a phone that can be docked into a device with a full keyboard and monitor. Some analysts have also said sales of the Atrix are weak.

The company did not pull out Atrix sales numbers. It said it shipped 9.3 million mobile devices, including 4.1 million smartphones, during the quarter.