Motorola shipped 4.8 million smartphones worldwide in Q3, according to the company’s latest financial results, but tablet sales were just 100,000.

Motorola Mobility is still waiting for its purchase by Google to be rubber stamped, and its results in the meantime are a bit of a mixed bag.

Smartphone sales were up by 9.1 per cent, taking mobile device sales to 11.6 million, and the company has key phones on the horizon such as the Motorola Atrix 2 and the Motorola Razr.