Motorola this morning announced its Q1 2010 earnings, with the manufacturer seeing total sales of $5 billion. Its mobile device arm brought in $1.6 billion and shipped 8.5 million phones, including 2.3 million smartphones, while seeing an operating loss of $192 million. That’s down 9 percent compared to the first quarter of 2009, though this quarter’s operating loss was drastically lower, compared to $545 million a year ago.
Motorola introduced six new Android smartphones in the first quarter, including three in the United States — the Backflip, Cliq XT and Devour. [Motorola]