Comments on: Moto still tripping over phones http://gigaom.com/2007/04/18/moto-still-tripping-over-phones/ Tracking the Internet Evolution Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:23:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Aniq Rahman http://gigaom.com/2007/04/18/moto-still-tripping-over-phones/#comment-96869 Aniq Rahman Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:51:35 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/moto-still-tripping-over-phones/#comment-96869 <p>Motorola definitely is losing a market share to Nokia and is going through some serious decline, however, investors still think that the company has potential to recover, that is if the company restructures itself -- FiscalTimes has a report on MOT -- http://fiscaltimes.com/2007/04/17/hello-moto-why-you-should-be-looking-at-motorola/</p> Motorola definitely is losing a market share to Nokia and is going through some serious decline, however, investors still think that the company has potential to recover, that is if the company restructures itself — FiscalTimes has a report on MOT — http://fiscaltimes.com/2007/04/17/hello-moto-why-you-should-be-looking-at-motorola/

]]> By: Nick Hawkins http://gigaom.com/2007/04/18/moto-still-tripping-over-phones/#comment-96868 Nick Hawkins Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:23:14 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/moto-still-tripping-over-phones/#comment-96868 <p>Moto has always done this in the handset department. They swing for the fences and strike out a lot. First came the Startac and people were like OMG. They sold gazillions of them. Then sales dropped and Moto choked. Then they came out with the RAZR and they sold gazillions of them. Then sales tank again. You'd think that Motorola would realize this pattern (if we all do) and have Zander kick the team to keep up a decent amount of cell phones through the pipeline.</p> <p>Ok, so since the RAZR they've come out with phones that lack vowels, like the PEBL, RIZR that are merely variations on a theme. There's nothing there that would make me go from one Moto phone to another. How about quit spending all that money on marketing phones held by androgynous models and focus on something that would make us all excited. Hire some engineers from HTC/Nokia/SE and try to go away from hip and trendy back to functional first. Motorola basically has 5 phones with a lot of variations of them. Nokia seems to have dozens.</p> <p>What they need to do is come out with more phones spanning the price range, from cheapies to midrange phones to higher end phones? What happened to the good ol' days when Motorola was pushing out phones with OLED displays?</p> Moto has always done this in the handset department. They swing for the fences and strike out a lot. First came the Startac and people were like OMG. They sold gazillions of them. Then sales dropped and Moto choked. Then they came out with the RAZR and they sold gazillions of them. Then sales tank again. You’d think that Motorola would realize this pattern (if we all do) and have Zander kick the team to keep up a decent amount of cell phones through the pipeline.

Ok, so since the RAZR they’ve come out with phones that lack vowels, like the PEBL, RIZR that are merely variations on a theme. There’s nothing there that would make me go from one Moto phone to another. How about quit spending all that money on marketing phones held by androgynous models and focus on something that would make us all excited. Hire some engineers from HTC/Nokia/SE and try to go away from hip and trendy back to functional first. Motorola basically has 5 phones with a lot of variations of them. Nokia seems to have dozens.

What they need to do is come out with more phones spanning the price range, from cheapies to midrange phones to higher end phones? What happened to the good ol’ days when Motorola was pushing out phones with OLED displays?

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