Android-based Motorola XOOM tablets may boast of having many attractive features, but the fact is that only 100,000 of these have been sold so far.

Analysts have revealed that the tablet has been topping the poor performers list, along with Atrix smartphone, and sales have been very sluggish, despite an excellent promotional campaign by Verizon and AT&T.

Pacific Crest’s analyst, James Faucette said that he predicted no major earning estimates for the tablet, as his research has shown that the sales of the Motorola Xoom tablet have been really substandard.

In the last couple of months, a lot of discussion was going on about Motorola’s newest tablet Xoom. It’s the first Android 3.0 aka Honeycomb powered tablet, that’s coming to the market soon.

Reportedly, though many people are quite exited about its hardware and software prowess, some may not be very keen to buy one, as this smart device comes with a costly price tag that may not be affordable for them.

It’s leant that Verizon will be offering this tablet for $599 with a two year contract and without the contract it will cost you $799.

Wrong pricing policy
Motorola and Verizon are launching it as a contender of Apple iPad, but strangely it costs $70 more (without contract) than the basic model of iPad.

HTC launched its first ever Android tablet at the Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona. The tablet has been named as HTC Flyer and it runs on Android Gingerbread.

In the last 3 months, we saw a deluge of new tablets from Samsung, Motorola and BlackBerry and most of them are Android based.

Thus, if you consider HTC Flyer’s launch time, it’s certainly a late runner.

Specs
The tablet offers decent hardware, as it sports an aluminum casing, a 5 megapixel rear camera and 1.3 megapixel front facing camera for video calling.

The tablet is powered by 1.4GHz single core processor, 7-inch touchscreen display, 1GB of RAM and 32 built-in hard drives.

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