The Xoom might be in trouble. One analyst estimates Motorola has only sold 120,000 of its new tablet, at the very most.
The assessment comes from Global Equities' Tyler Chowdry, who estimates that Motorola moved between 25,000 and 120,000 Xooms, according to Fortune. While Chowdry's estimate provides a considerably wide range, it's more evidence of the bigger picture: the Xoom hasn't caught fire with consumers or analysts.
April has been a rough month for the Xoom. Pacific Crest analyst James Faucette recently knocked more than $1 billion off his previous estimate for Motorola sales in 2011, attributable to poor sales estimates for the Xoom as well as the Atrix 4G smartphone. Calling sales of both devices "disappointing," he reduced his estimate from $13.7 billion to $12.25 billion.
Consumer Reports released its tablet ratings earlier this month, and it didn't portend a positive future for the Xoom. Although it emphasized the strength of the Xoom, it also noted that both the first- and second-generation iPad remain the leader of the tablet space, in terms of price and performance.
Fortune says Chowdry cites a number of reasons for the Xoom's poor performance. He notes that the Verizon iPhone has negatively affected the performance of Google's Android platform. Additionally, he calls the Android Market "a disaster," and says Honeycomb, Google's new tablet-specific platform, is incomplete, unstable, has a poor UI, and has been rendered "dead on arrival."
It's hard not to compare the Xoom to Apple's iPad. In fact, the comparison first came from Motorola. The company originally pitted itself against Apple in its Super Bowl ad earlier this year. But the Xoom hasn't presented significant competition to the iPad.
Although Apple reported a decline in iPad sales, it still sold 4.69 million iPads last quarter.
A spokesperson for Motorola declined to disclose any sales figures, but the company is expected to do so in its first quarter earnings call on Thursday.
For more, see PCMag's full review of the Xoom and the slideshow below, as well as our iPad 2 vs. Xoom comparison.