Goodbye MOTO: Motorola to split mobile phone division into own company
How the mighty have fallen. After putting a RAZR in near every pocket they could find, Motorola has finally beaten its horse to death and today announced they will be splitting into two publicly traded companies, effectively spinning the failing mobile phone division off from the rest of business. MOTO CEO Gregory Brown tried to spin things this way, but I'm not sure who's buying it:
"Creating two industry-leading companies will provide improved flexibility, more tailored capital structures, and increased management focus - as well as more targeted investment opportunities for our shareholders.”
Brown was apparently under heavy pressure from primary investor Carl C. Icahn, who owns more than 6% of the company, to spin off and sell the handset division, which has been losing market share and coming under heavy criticism as of late from pundits and former employees alike. Looks like that's what Brown's aiming to do, and now the speculation can begin as to who might be looking to pick up the one-time king of cell phones at a bargain basement price.
Read more on the developing story on RCR News.
Fetch me more...Quickly jump to more information about related topics, cell phones, carriers or phone manufacturers mentioned in this Blog Article by using the links below. Our fancy algorithm says this stuff is related...Noah stops looking at a poster (not) of himself long enough to check out the Motorola ZN5. The first fruit of Moto's collaboration with Kodak, the MOTOZINE ZN5 is a cameraphone with a 5MP shooter and Moto's Mode Shift technology. ROKR you like a Hurricane. Moto's new ROKR E8 features a morphing keypad, touch sensitive nav wheel, and 2MP camera. It's a T-Mobile exclusive. Hello MOTO. The new Motorola phone for AT&T is the Z9, a sliderphone with a jewel like finish houses integrated GPS, a music player, video share services, and much more. Check it out behind the scenes at CTIA '08. Hello, MOTO. Come inside Motorola's booth at CTIA 2008 in Las Vegas, and check out the new Z9 slider and the ROKR E8 music phone ... which we really think maybe might be coming to T-Mobile in the US before too long. We hope so, anyway. Noah from PhoneDog.com live from CES 2008 in Las Vegas. Hands-on with MOTO's two new handsets. The Z10 is a smartphone with amazing video editing capabilities, and the ROKR E8 changes its keypad depending on what mode you're using.
Here is a quick video preview of the Motorola's new ROKR U9. Although it sports a "PEBL" esque form factor it still manages to distinguish itself through its new UI, advanced music player and external touch controls Carrier: VerizonRetail Price: $349 or via ebayContract Price:$149.99 or via Let's TalkHot Feature: "interactive touch flip."
The Motorola Krave ZN4 is a touch phone that sports and interactive flip cover. Key features include a 2.0 megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, media player, live TV support, visual voicemail, microSD slot (up to 8GB), Haptic sensory feedback and a 3.5mm headset jack.
I'm "at" the Motorola Virtual Press Conference where they're launching the Krave ZN4 for Verizon. No surprise here, as this device was leaked far and wide. But it still sounds pretty interesting - it's a flip phone with a touchscreen and an "interactive flip." Apparently the clear plastic flip cover has touch controls so you can access frequently used functions without opening the device up.
Krave looks like it's going to... Carrier: T-MobileRetail Price: $159.99 or via ebayContract Price: $29.99 or via Let's TalkHot Feature: Music PlayerThe MOTO ACTV W450 available in mandarin orange and canary yellow sports the familiar Motorola clamshell design. Key features include a 1.3 megapixel camera with video capture, stereo Bluetooth, MP3 player, microSD slot, speaker phone and picture messaging. Heads-up, phone phans! Nokia's planned an announcemnet for next Monday, October 13th - and has a viral campaign to hype things up in the meantime - and Motorola's announcing something new and "Clear" (as per their PR campaign) on Tuesday, October 14th. My bets? I have no idea what Nokia's gonna drop, but I bet MOTO unveils the Kraze smartphone for Verizon Wireless.
Stay tuned for all of the juicy bits as we get them. And... Motorla's MING series of Linux-based, touchscreen smartphones have been pretty popular overseas but never really seen the light of day here in the US. Sure, you could pick up an unlocked GSM MING via CompUSA or an importer, but without carrier backing most Americans had no idea that MING was a phone and not *just* a dynasty from their history books.
Looks like Verizon Wireless is aiming to change all of that with the introduction of... The MOTO Q Global is a high performance Windows Mobile 6.1 smart phone offering a full integrated QWERTY keyboard, 3.6 Mbps HSDPA, 325 MHz applications processor, 128MB RAM and aGPS, among many additional features and capabilities. With Windows Mobile 6.1, the MOTO Q Global supports Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager which provides single-point access to line of business and corporate data such as applications, files and other... dont know if i can be much help but my experienc with razr phones is that you have to clear your messages befor you are able to send or receive messages. i am not much of a tech guy so someone with hacking skills may be able to give you better tips as to minipulating the phones system to bypass this inconvienince i have found if that is your problem. i hope this helped good luck:) The Motorola Q9 Global phone button is speared in a confined space. I feel very much hesitation to watch it. Is this really needs these much buttons? This is very bad design to me. I don’t know how people can tolerate it The new motorla is out to rock I am talking abt th new motorokr E8 here . the phoneis totally diff then all the phones u have seen . The music quality is very nice . And the look is so cool that u actually have to see it to belive it . I got this phone from myworldphone .com . this place is very cool and they ship it to anywhere ard the world . The new motorla is out to rock I am talking abt th new motorokr E8 here . the phoneis totally diff then all the phones u have seen . The music quality is very nice . And the look is so cool that u actually have to see it to belive it . I got this phone from myworldphone .com . this place is very cool and they ship it to anywhere ard the world . The new motorla is out to rock I am talking abt th new motorokr E8 here . the phoneis totally diff then all the phones u have seen . The music quality is very nice . And the look is so cool that u actually have to see it to belive it . I got this phone from myworldphone .com . this place is very cool and they ship it to anywhere ard the world . Wao! The Motorola MOTOROKR EM30 is a fantastic phone and it will come with very beautiful Red and Black Color combination. The rest of the features are also updated and user friendly. An attractive 8GB microSD removable storage card stores user’s favorite songs.The fantastic CrystalTalk technology keeps sounds crisp and clear even in noisy environments. I got some clear pictures of Motorola MOTOROKR EM30 at gsmarena.com and gsmprofile.com.
Motorola A1600 is a new new clamshell phone with touchscreen facility. Another speciality of this phone is that dis phone runs on a LINUX platform. To know more abt it just visit www.gsmprofile.com Anticipated Phones of the year, are you serious?Its sales were disgusting. Plus dont you think they kind of copied the design of the blackjack? I personaly think the e6 rokr is the best of its kind. Although they are coming out with the new e8 rokr july 7th which will start at $199, i think it is no match for the e6, the e6 is touchscreen not so fat and very well designed. As for the e8, it isnt touchscreen (if your a touchscreen fan dont get it) It also has a small screen and the design isnt exactly what i like to call AMAZING. I think that if your thinking of getting any sort of rokr... Hmmmm I looked through the online manual, but I couldn't find anything either ...
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