Since Motorola is in the process of finalizing its merger with Google, they are apparently not ready to give us a full Q4 earnings report and have instead issued a “business situation” update. According to the release, they had sales of $3.4 billion with “modest profitability.” Those sales included 10.5 million mobile devices, 5.3 million of which were smartphones. Thanks to the increased competitive environment and legal costs associated with patent trolling by Apple and others, these results are what they are.

In related news, Motorola at least has plans to introduce “several” new products at CES next week. So far we have not seen any clues as to what those may be, but one would guess that the DROID 4 will likely be one of them. I also would not be surprised if we see WiFi versions of the XYBOARD (XOOM 2) come to the U.S. and maybe even the new RAZR MAXX or a variant of it that is headed to AT&T (Dinara anyone?).

The Google-Motorola merger is still expected to be completed early this year.  

At this point, if a week has gone by and a new Motorola phone hasn’t been outed, then there is something wrong. As an Android OEM, no one seems to pump out devices faster than these guys. So when a new device was found in EXIF data over at Picasa, that could be their follow-up to the recently released DROID RAZR, dubbed the RAZRMAX, we are not surprised at all.

Little is known about the phone, but when you see “DROID” mixed into the name, you know it’s headed to Verizon. Since we saw two new HD screened RAZR-esque phones announced for China just last week, one could assume that one of them may end up as the RAZRMAX here in the states. “MAX” as a word in general, gives off an impression of “bonus” or “upgraded” which would fit in perfectly with an HD screen. Or could it be a bigger battery? Tough to tell from EXIF data.