Comments on: Motorola Handsets Still Hemorrhaging

By: Battered by Business Market, Motorola Refocuses on Media Phones

Battered by Business Market, Motorola Refocuses on Media Phones — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:01:43 +0000

[...] Good Technology’s software, also used by Palm and Nokia, was supposed to juice Moto’s business ambitions. But bad UI design, lack of innovations, and a market quickly moving from enterprise phones to media-focused options made the venture fall. When the economy plunged, Motorola looked to split into two, and reported massive losses. [...]

By: PlanetCellPhone Blog » Blog Archive » Wednesday Links: Japan WiMAX Trials, Motorola Troubles

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:09:40 +0000

[...] Gigaom says that Motorola is having mega-trouble in the wireless handset market. Remember when the Startac was the phone to have? [...]

By: DailyWireless » Blog Archive » Wednesday Links: Japan WiMAX Trials, Motorola Troubles

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:17:22 +0000

[...] Gigaom says that Motorola is having mega-trouble in the wireless handset market. Remember when the Startac was the phone to have? [...]

By: wayan

wayan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:25:55 +0000

its look so nice,, but I not using motorola

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:36:24 +0000

I totally agree with Tom. I tried several of there phones in the last few years they just don’get it. The last ruggedized phone I got from verizon what a piece of crap. They called it water resistant and compared to the Casio what a farce the back (battery cover ) was so flimimsy and thin it could not seal the back I just could belive they wanted 150 for it.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:39:15 +0000

Moto had the second largest handset business on the planet (after Nokia) when the handset market was larger and growing faster than just about any other market there is. Then in the first half of this decade they got arrogant, coasted on the Razr’s success, basically ignored emerging trends (i.e. “the web in your pocket”), and stopped significant innovation.

But it’s not too late. Moto still has plenty of resources to leverage — particularly their distribution expertise and operator relationships. If they they can identify and acquire innovations that take the mobile experience to a new level (particularly the mobile Web experience), they could once again leverage a few million dollars in R&D into billions in sales. They might have to start by repopulating their handset division (from bus dev to product design) with hungry, creative, aggressively innovative individuals.

By: jkOnTheRun » Blog Archive Motorola CEO- Windows Mobile 7 not until 2010 «

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:15:53 +0000

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By: tom

tom — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:28:51 +0000

the biggest mistake motorola made was almost 10 years ago when it moved away from selling super sturdy, tough, reliable basic handsets that appealed to business and people who just wanted a reliable good quality phone. instead they brought out the razor and went after the fashion phones from nokia samsung and others. motorola does not understand that part of the business.

they should go back to highly functional reliable phones at good prices and forget about being sexy. nokia’s and iphone’s fill that role fine.