Motorola posts $291 million loss in first quarter, mobile sales fall 45 percent, Android handsets confirmed for Q4
By Laura June 
posted April 30th 2009 10:12AM
posted April 30th 2009 10:12AM
Motorola has spilled some very unappetizing beans with its first quarter results. The company missed its projected sales figure of $5.62 billion, posting $5.4 billion, $1.8 billion of which were in its handsets division. The cellphone space is where the company seems to be hurting the most -- sales were down 45 percent there -- though some projections had it faring worse than that. Overall, Moto's looking at a $291 million loss, or $0.13 a share, which, even in this economy, can't be the greatest of news.On the bright side, during the earnings briefing, CEO Sanjay Jha confirmed that Motorola will indeed introduce "differentiated Android-based devices" in time for the holiday season this year. Hooray for that, anyway!
Read - Motorola CEO Confirms Android Devices for Q4
Read - Earnings: Motorola Posts $291 Million Loss As Cellphone Sales Slump 45 Percent
Why won't it just DIE.
Because they make kick ass cable modems...
Whoops take it back I didn't read the article.... I don't care about the Mobile division....
what else can you expect from those phone designs... MOTO lost the MOJO... ADIOS MOTO
Besides the Razor I can't remember the last time I've actually owned a Motorola phone...
They should make me CEO of the mobile division..
I know the answer to save Motorola..
1-Make another RAZR
2-Make another KRZR
3-Take a SHIZR
At this point, they might as well adopt the sad-moto logo officially... it's kind of a shame, really, Motorola used to be innovative...
It is very dangerous time for industry, every kind! We hope Obama will solve this problem soon. This recession is actually a nightmare and but it will change the lifestyle for the whole world and finally it will take us a new world!
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Every kind and but Obama will solve the actually nightmare recession problem. New world!!!!!!
you and your shameless advertising...for shame.
seriously...
motorola keep on making the same old mobiles that seem cheap and tacky. while other mobiles such as the iphone and N95 are jsut flying ahead.
they are going backwards!
A manufacturer can't just create one hit product and try to ride the wave for five years.
Apple Thyomorb, Thyomorb Apple.
Now that you've met...
LOL, I almost spat water on my screen James R. I was going to say the same thing. At least the iPhone can do things like play music, watch movies, watch pictures, and get online (this is coming from a WinMo user). The RAZR was just a big ass butt ugly phone that was over priced, and did nothing but make phone calls. At the time I had my Sony Ericsson which ran circles around the RAZR. Oh well.
@James. Please explain your comment in detail.
Last time I looked, Apple does not behave this way. In fact they go to the other extreme, releasing new versions of stuff fairly quickly. If your assertion was correct, then the current iPod would be the Classic, and that would be it. In the last 8 years they have gone from the original iPod to the Touch, introduced a completely different OS (OS 9 -> OS X), completely changed the architecture of their computers (PPC -> Intel), gone from the fruit colors to white to black and aluminum computer designs and entered a new market and introduced a completely new phone.
The only thing I could possibly agree with you on is the case for the Mac Pro. The Mac Book Pro case was getting a bit old, but they just completely redesigned that.
Like Apple or not, comparing them to Motorola in this instance makes absolutely no sense - Apple is like the anti-Motorola...
Obama will do nothing, cause its kinda like saving the typewriter at this point for Motorola.
They need to build something people want again. Build an Android phone and DAMN the carrier and make able to use AT&T. I for one will shell out my money to buy it w/o contract.
Motorola's problem started before the recession, to be honest it started after the RAZR and got worse after the iPhone.
Sounds like a hell of a lot of money to me.
MOTOROLAAAAAA! What are you doing? So sick of seeing this downward spiral. Aren’t you the company that invented the portable cell phone? I still have an America Series “Tough Talker” sitting in my office. And you know what? The damn thing still works (sans the lack of analog AMPS cell service).
Seem to us that you TURNED INTO FAT LAZY FUXS resting on the Razr’s laurels. Well it’s NOT TOO LATE. Be the first to make devices like this (use flexible OLED and run Android): http://www.eternal-champions.com/images/efc_device.jpg
AND GET YOUR ASS BACK IN THE GAME!
Matter of fact, I know a thing or two about cell phones. GET ME IN THERE AND I’LL STRAIGHTEN YOUR ASSES! I will put you on a “diet” and then DRAGGING YOUR NEWLY SLIMMED DOWN ASS KICKING AND SCREAMING BACK TO PROFITABILITY!!
PS You need to first reinvent yourself and then focus on “make the next BIG thing!”
That thing looks like a leftover from an unfinished Babylon 5 movie.
Wow. Seems like the same old thing from MOTO....The problem with Motorola is that every 18 months they are restructuring. Meaning that every 18 months they are interrupting the product development cycle. And for the most part, they are just moving the chairs around. The old boy network is strong within Mot. If you do not assimilate your are gone and accused of lying (former CFO). I know the people working on the Android development. It is sad that reading their daily tweets of how bored they are or how they wish it was the weekend already (on a Tuesday), or how gay marriage should be legalized, instead of focusing and describing in their tweets of how they are making a better product and overall user experience. And the old boy network runs strong in them also, since they are the 21yr old children of the old boy execs. I am just thankful that I am no longer part of it.
Sorry for the Rant.
I wonder if iPhone megasales have anything to do with this.
Hm, actually, this comment may actually be relevant- the iPhone has displaced the RAZR as the "fashionable" phone among a certain crowd...
And Motorola tried to produce a cheap alternative for the iPhone which failed miserably. They must have lost some money in the competition even though they aren't even competing anymore. They only wish they were.
I know how to get Motorola back in shape.
Fire the head of design.
Fire all the designers.
Get new ones.
I think that wins the bland comment of the day award.
Any word on if Canada will be getting Android any time soon?!
Beeeeecause, they put money tords $1200 cell phones that are crap. I like SE(Sony Ericsson) phones.
What's up with this 4th quarter stuff? Some phone manufacturers take forever to make new products and bring them out for sale. maybe Motorola will die this year if consumers must wait so long for their new phones.
I hope they just die already.... RIP
I have a RAZR and it CAN do all the things that other phones of it's time could, but you had to flash custom firmware to the dang thing to make it truly usable. Flashing would get rid of the stupid restrictions that the US carriers put on it. It could allow the use of MP3s as ringtones, record longer videos, increase your battery life, improve camera quality, strip away junk programing on the phone that allowed the OS to run MUCH faster as well as make room for custom ringtones and longer videos.
The RAZR was THE generic phone for about 2 years. If you saw a phone in TV show or a movie, they were likely using RAZRs If the RAZR2 had come out about 6 months earlier and $100 cheaper we might be singing a different tune right now.
It's sad. I liked the RAZR line.
MOtorola phones are pretty decent. THe only thing they have to change is the KEYBOARD. I mean its just too flat or slippery to be texting on and just about almost all phones out there are being used to texting. They need to undergo a better keyboard design.