http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/ Engadget Comments for Motorola officially considering dropping its phone unit http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/Jan 31st 2008 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/
Luckily, I will be able to get a new phone when Sprint closes (please please please please)]]>Jan 31st 2008 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/Jan 31st 2008 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/Jan 31st 2008 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/
They may not have the best service, but they are *far* from going out of business.]]>Jan 31st 2008 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/Jan 31st 2008 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/
Good job!]]>Jan 31st 2008 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/My opinion? Take a step aside for a while and work on really designing a worthy rival to popular devices (New MING model to compete with the iPhone? New Rokr model based on the E6 with more flash memory? - High quality cameraphone?)
There's many possibilities for Motorola to move forward, but at the moment they're falling short of (IMO) Apple, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, and LG in producing competing devices.]]>Jan 31st 2008 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/
I doubt if any Chinese company will buy the handset division. I guess it will be dumped for a major loss. More hurt for shareholders.]]>Jan 31st 2008 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/
I've had Samsung, and I've had Nokia before. And now with my RAZR, which isn't all too horrible, I've actually had problems though. It slows down horribly, the interface is a bit clunky and then on top of it all. I have Sprint, which is horrible too. Oh well, just a little while longer and I can start looking at Android phones to buy.

By the way, anyone else having trouble replying to comments.]]>Jan 31st 2008 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/Jan 31st 2008 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/
I'm surprised they're considering getting out. The Razr did great two years ago. They kept being profitable through 2006. 2007 is their first year of loss in the division and they're considering dropping it??? I think Apple showed that there is money to be made, even with the competition. It seems strange for a company that's been in this biz for so long to jump ship only 2 years after such a revolutionary product... one that was only equaled now by the iphone. Moto doesn't think they can do it again? What BS.]]>Jan 31st 2008 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/Jan 31st 2008 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/
This is the problem with most cell companies: they think decent hardware is all you need and slapping a crappy UI on top will be fine. (or worse, slapping some else's shitty UI on it: i'm looking at you, HTC Touch.)

If there is one lesson to learn from the iPhone, it's that UI and Interaction is *EVERYTHING* ...but these mobile retards will just make asinine assumptions that the iPhone is selling because it's trendy, and not because it's far and away a better device to *interact* with.

bah!]]>Jan 31st 2008 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/Jan 31st 2008 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/Feb 1st 2008 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/
Am I wrong?]]>Jan 31st 2008 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/
Bravo! Thanks for playing the cellphone industry game, it's just not for you. I mean, how many iterations of the RAZR have you brought us? More importantly: How did you manage to beat the RAZR to death and STILL have the audacity to suggest nearly $200 for the dreadful thing?

Your two problems are as follows:

1. The RAZR. As stated above. We don't need the v3, v3m, v3t, v3i, v3xx, v3c, and any other letter or cluster of that you can put in front of it. Remember how "exclusive" the black RAZR was? Yeah, every celebrity had it in their Oscar swag bag and it was said to be the hottest thing ever (yeah, a color change. Face it, only Nintendo can pull that one off and get away with it), then you started offering them to everyone for free who agreed to two years in a family plan with any GSM carrier.

2. Your firmware. What is this proprietary garbage you have? Granted, it's not as annoying as Verizon which shoves it down EVERY cellphone's throat but at least Verizon's firmware is actually functional and much less frustrating to use. This is 2008. The iPhone's been out for long enough. This is technology. Adapt or lose your business.

Oh wait, you already have.]]>Jan 31st 2008 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/Jan 31st 2008 10:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/Jan 31st 2008 10:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/Jan 31st 2008 10:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/Jan 31st 2008 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/Jan 31st 2008 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/Jan 31st 2008 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/Jan 31st 2008 11:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/
Dear Moto Mobile division, you will be missed, but not much.]]>Feb 1st 2008 12:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/
spinning it off might make sense... because someone in that organization sucks at their job... hopefully they wont get spun off with them.]]>Feb 1st 2008 1:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/Razr was the phone where Moto almost stealed Nokia's number 1 spot, but i cant understand how stupid can you be by not inventing anything new and all the phones you still 3 years later make would be called in Nokia portfolio just i version.

I just cant understand how they blew it after razr they could have gone out as a winner if they would have keeped it going and producing phones like that(but not razr like;)).
They could still try to fight with the mid phones against Nokia, Samsung and SE just to produce something with okish soft and please for the first time with real screen.

Low end and high end it have lost to Nokia already and especially that fight what Nokia and Moto did with emergin markets there aint coming back because only thing what there matters is size.

company-----Q4(2007)--------Q3-------------QOQ
Nokia-------41.08%--- 39.89% ------- +1.19%
Samsung---14.25%---- 15.21% ------- -0.96%
Moto-------12.58%----13.29% ------- -0.71%
SE----------9.48%-----9.25%-------- +0.23%
LG----------7.29%---- 7.82% -------- -0.53%]]>Feb 1st 2008 2:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/
Please go read a book - one that isn't just a bunch of printed out forums stapled together.]]>Feb 4th 2008 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/Feb 1st 2008 3:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/
I almost left Lucent to work there but stayed with Looser....I mean Lucent and sank with that ship instead. Last thing I heard about that plant was that it was going to be turned into an indoor water park, no lie----> http://www.harvardedc.com/news_read.asp?ID=43]]>Feb 1st 2008 6:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/
I am wondering too about the iDen phones. That could go either way. The market for iDen is now open and anyone could make an iDen phone (a new Nextel smartphone?.....lol) The worst could happen, and iDen just dies, but I very doubt that happening.


I like comparing stuff to cars, so here is my example of what happened....

Motorola comes up with a good product. This is priced right and sells the crap out of them. Lets call it the Motorola Ranger. Its versitile, gets great battery life, and is truly a good value. Year after year, you only change the color, or the appearance slightly. The "meat" of it is never change. YEARS go buy and you still have not truly reinvented or refreshed the product. Then you decide the public no longer wants the current product and you axe it. Apparently Ford and Motorola have the same consulting firm :)

(The following example does not apply to the Kawasaki Ninja 250, which did not change for like 15 years, and still was a strong seller EVERY year......still boggles my mind that was the case. But at least now it was redesigned :) ).]]>Feb 1st 2008 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/Feb 1st 2008 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/motorola-officially-considering-dropping-its-phone-unit/Feb 2nd 2008 3:54AM