14 DAY TRIAL // Mobile phone maker Motorola seems to have problems with keeping at pace with the rate at which its Android-based DROID device is selling. According to the company's co-Chief Executive Sanjay Jha, the sales of DROID by Motorola at Verizon Wireless haven't been affected by the launch of DROID Incredible, although some expected for that to happen.
According to a recent article on Reuters, Sanjay Jha said on Wednesday, after an Executives Club presentation in Chicago, that the mobile phone maker was facing a series of industry wide supply chain constraints, which made it hard to build more devices, although the company would like to. A similar issue was reportedly previously for the DROID Incredible, which ships with delays over at Verizon due to low stock.
“(DROID) sales are going extremely well. If I could build more I'd sell more,” Jha said, Reuters reports. However, he did not offer specific details on the components that were in short supply. Last month, Verizon Wireless announced that it had hard times meeting demand for the DROID Incredible by HTC due to similar issues. A shortage of screens from Samsung Electronics resulted in the shipping of the device for those who ordered it from the carrier to have been delayed by several weeks.
In addition to discussing the sales of DROID, Jha also said that the company aimed at pushing to the market a number of two to four mobile phones that would include front facing cameras. These devices would prove great tools for video conferencing while on the go, yet Jha added that he did not believe that the technology would see high demand on the market.
Other handset vendors made similar moves recently, including HTC, which launched a mobile phone with front-facing camera on Sprint's airwaves in the US, namely the Android-based HTC EVO 4G, and Apple, with this week's unveiled new iPhone 4. With Motorola expected to deliver a number of around 20 Android handsets to the market in 2010, there are great chances that these front-facing camera-equipped phones would run under Google's operating system, yet nothing has been confirmed as of yet.