Motorola Xoom and Atrix Report Disappointing Sales

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6 Apr, 2011 2:23 pm

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Judging by public sentiment its pretty easy to see that the Xoom and the Atrix haven’t been the top selling devices from 2011. Pacific Crest analyst James Faucette recently revised his full-year 2011 revenue estimates for Motorola Mobility from $13.7 billion down to $12.12 billion while his predictions for their 2012 revenue fell from $15.34 billion to $13.62 billion as well.

Why has he done this?? Well its seem the sales numbers from the Motorola Xoom and the Atrix 4G aren’t holding up. The Xoom has been overpriced right from the beginning and if you’re going up against the iPad 2 its a pretty easy choice. Taking a look at the Atrix 4G who has been going up against the similarly priced HTC Inspire 4G and the iPhone, the Atrix doesn’t seem to be winning either. It might have something to do with the over priced dock that needs a data plan of its own!

If Motorola wants to be competitive then it looks like they are going to have to take a look at their pricing.


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  • Anonymous

    Sounds to me like what is strangling the Atrix is not Motorolas doing. US carriers really do need to get of their high horse…

  • Anonymous

    Data plan foolishness, duper-high prices even on contract? What’s not to hate?

  • Anonymous

    yeah I agree I would have been interested in the Atrix if I didn’t have to spend so much it is $500 for the phone itself if your not on contract or $200 non-contract, then you have to buy the netbook dock which is another few hundred plus you have to pay tethering fees just to use the damned dock.
    Unfortunately it is cheaper to just buy a regular tablet and whatever phone the cellphone company is offering for free or just buy a tablet upgrade it to 4g and get a headset with a good data plan and a voip service.

  • http://www.netbooknews.com Nicole Scott

    Totally! I was on board and about to buy one but the whole thing just left a bad taste in my mouth. I’m all over the HTC Desire S right now. I had money in hand then I saw the Acer Iconia a500…nuff said! ;)

  • Wesley

    In the UK Motorola Xoom = £579.99. The Asus Transformer pre-order price is £379.78 without the laptop dock. Both 10″ Android Honeycomb tablets. I know which one I would buy…

    I’m surprised Google let Motorola have exclusivity for its honeycomb launch when the pricing would be so bad, really putting off a lot of customers and giving a bad impression.