Motorola said on Thursday that it expects to sell one.3 million to one.5 million tablets for the complete year, when selling 440,000 devices within the just-reported second quarter,” Ina Fried reports for AllThingsD.
“In providing steering beside its quarterly results, Motorola said it expects pill sales to drop within the current quarter because its Xoom faces larger competition from a spread of alternative tablets running Google’s Honeycomb operating system and as it prepares new product,” Fried reports. “Average selling costs have conjointly dropped, partially because the company has cut costs.”
Fried reports, “Speaking on the company’s conference decision with analysts, CEO Sanjay Jha conjointly commented on the corporate’s patent portfolio within the wake of investor Carl Icahn suggesting the company think about selling off a number of its patents. Noting the corporate has quite seventeen,000 patents granted and over seven,000 patents pending, Jha said the corporate is often reviewing its choices. With new corporations coming into the mobile house, he said, ‘our patent portfolio in increasingly necessary.’”
