The Motorola Xoom tablet has only sold 100,000 units, five weeks after going on sale in the US, according to a sales estimate from Deutsche Bank.
The Android Honeycomb slate, which was launched to great acclaim in the US on February 24th, and on Wednesday in the UK, looks to have failed to capture the imagination of the tech buying public.
The estimate comes after the bank craftily tallied those found to be using the tablet-centric Honeycomb OS. As the Xoom is the only device available that carries that system, the logic seems impeccable.
iPad 2 killer? Not likely
In a rather sobering comparison Apple is thought to have sold 2.5m iPad 2s in the month of March and, in all likelihood, topped Moto in the first hour of sales on the March 2nd launch day.
The unproven nature of the Honeycomb operating system, the lack of an extensive app catalogue out of the gate and an unfavourable price-point may have all contributed to the poor sales.
Whatever the reason, hopes that both the Xoom and Honeycomb could provide an instant rival to Apple's all-conquering tablet are as yet unfounded.
Motorola has yet to release any official sales figures for the tablet and has not commented on Deutsche Bank's guesswork.
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