Motorola Xoom Sales "Awful" (MMI)

Motorola MMI Xoom sales are being described as awful, despite Verizon executives saying yesterday the tablet was selling "extremely well."

Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities Research said that Xoom sales are “very weak,” as the tablet suffers from “poor software quality” in Android Honeycomb, as well as poor battery life.

Chowdhry writes, “Google Honeycomb is suffering from frequent application freezes and crashes,” and “the battery life is very inconsistent – lasts sometimes for 2 hours, and sometimes for 6 hours. The battery standby life is mere 10 – 12 hours vs. 30 days on Apple iPad.”

At last check, shares of Motorola Mobility were off 28 cents to $26.89, a loss of 1%.