“Checks showed that the Apple phone was still ‘by far’ the most popular in May and June, even after phones like the Samsung Infuse 4G and Sony Ericsson Xperia Play arrived on shelves,” Electronista reports. “While sales of Motorola’s Droid X2 were ‘steady,’ Motorla’s Atrix 4G at AT&T and Xoom tablet at Verizon were both ‘disappointing,’ research lead T. Michael Walkley and other analysts said.”
Electronista reports, “Some of the problems for Android related to overeager Android phone makers putting out HSPA+ and LTE devices before the chipsets were truly ready, Canaccord claimed. The HTC Thunderbolt and Samsung Droid Charge sold well at first at Verizon, but their first-generation 4G hardware led to “much higher” returns than usual after customers weren’t happy with battery life… The iPad 2 had a wide lead at AT&T and Verizon where the BlackBerry PlayBook was “weak,” and neither Motorola nor other tablet manufacturers had more than modest sales.”
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