Motorola during its fiscal results call confirmed some of its launch strategy for tablets beyond the Xoom to try allay growing fears about the timing. The company now expects to have a seven-inch Android tablet in the second half of 2011. Although not providing details on this smaller screen, company chief Sanjay Jha also confirmed plans for a Wi-Fi only Xoom in the nearer future as well as a matching version of the seven-inch slate.
Attempting to allay mounting fears that the rough state of Android 3.0 would lead to a delay for Xoom, the company leader insisted that the inaugural tablet for the platform was still on track to ship before the end of February. There could be some “modest variation” in the ship date, but it wasn’t expected, Jha said.
