Comments on: Moto, Chasing Nokia

By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:39:24 +0000

Yes, Nokia has Yahoo Go support now, vs. 2H07 for Motorola. As for Motorola and high end phones: The so-called Ultimate Media RAZR is about the most advanced non-smart phone you can buy in the US. The CDMA version has got EVDO so it is definitely a 3G phone. There is also the Motorola Q smart-phone — Windows Mobile 5.0. EVDO, and push e-mail. Clearly one’s view of Nokia vs Motorola is shaped by whether they live in the US or not. Nokia is on the way out of the CDMA market and thus have a low profile with half of the US market. On the other hand Nokia is far stronger than Motorola in GSM and especially UMTS (which is still a non-issue in the US), so outside the US and the Far-East Nokia is rightly seen is the dominant player and Moto as a weak also ran.

By: Mick McQuilton

Mick McQuilton — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:27:44 +0000

Nice earnings from Moto. Now if they could just see their way to better quality in their handsets (how about focusing on the newer, better charger interface) we wouldn’t have to replace them every 18 months. Or maybe that’s the idea.

By: Jim Hughes

Jim Hughes — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:41:41 +0000

Motorola and "high-end 3G phones" isn't a combination I'm aware of, they don't make any high-end phones, and their 3G range is very sparse, about all they're doing right now is new colours for the tired old low-end RAZR.

There's only a limited market for chav-phones, Moto will be hitting that barrier hard very soon.

By: Prasanna

Prasanna — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 07:13:56 +0000

I would like to point that Nokia is already advertising its N70 model here in India with Yahoo! Go. It seems they(Yahoo!) also have a partnership with Nokia.

By: Trib

Trib — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:14:03 +0000

"It seems more like Motorola’s playing catch-up with this rather than gaining share on NOK."

Huh?

Om points out that Moto has closed the marketshare gap signifigantly (33.3% NOK, 22.2% MOT). Introducing a feature second into the marketplace has nothing to do with gaining market share. Besides…why would anyone want Yahoo on an ugly nokia phone when I can get it on a beautiful razr or pebl or slvr or Q??

By: Bill Day

Bill Day — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:00:43 +0000

Concerning MOT's agreement to bundle "Yahoo Go for Mobile" on devices starting in 2007:

Nokia already has a similar deal. In fact, there's at least one Nokia handset available today from Cingular that includes the Yahoo bits. It seems more like Motorola's playing catch-up with this rather than gaining share on NOK.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:00:40 +0000

I wonder how MOT and Nokia are doing with regard to phones that also deal with push email, to compete with Blackberry? Sony-Ericsson has been delayed in releasing their push email phones if I’m not mistaken and it would seem that the phone companies would want to offer phones that can attack the Blackberry market slice.