Motorola makes a strategic move to separate its handset business
According to the Co-CEO Sanjay Jha, Motorola Inc. may spin off its mobile-phone business early in the first quarter of next year.
According to Motorola’s previous statements, it would separate the handset business and a set-top box division from the rest of the company during the first quarter. According to Jha, the company may be able to complete the transaction near the beginning of that period. The spin is looking good for first quarter, the early part of first quarter.
As per reports, Motorola unveiled six new smartphones including a version of its Droid handset for business users. The company is rebuilding its handset business around Google Inc.’s Android software, capitalizing on surging demand for devices that use the software.
Get ready, Motorola is bringing Android-based smartphones to all consumers, Jha said at an event
According to Nielsen, Android a free software that’s also used in phones from HTC Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co., has become the most popular operating system in the U.S. among new smartphone buyers, passing Apple Inc.’s iPhone and Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry platforms. While BlackBerry retained the top spot among U.S. smartphone owners overall with a 31% share, its lead is declining.
AT&T Inc., the second-largest U.S. wireless operator announced that it will soon start selling three of the Motorola phones namely, Bravo, Flipout and Flipside, ranging between US$79.99 to US$129.99 with a two-year contract.
The company recently introduced phones like, the Citrus and Spice at affordable prices. According to Motorola, the Droid Pro targeted at professionals, comes loaded with business software and additional security.
Android is the first choice for Smartphones buyers in US
Google Inc.’s Android software grabs the top position in the U.S. among new smartphone buyers, passing the iPhone and BlackBerry platforms.
According to Nielsen, Android was the top choice for U.S. consumers who bought a smartphone in the past six months with RIM’s BlackBerry and Apple’s iPhone tied for second place.
Android has gained popularity as the software is free to any company who is willing to build phones using it and a wide range of manufacturers like Motorola Inc. and HTC Corp. have adopted it. Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. wireless operator, has promoted Android devices, and AT&T Inc., the exclusive U.S. carrier for the iPhone, now also offers several Android models.
According to Roger Entner, Nielsen’s head of telecom research, distribution and choice is king. They expand their distribution to Verizon, Sprint and AT&T and introduce a whole swing of devices and their market share goes up like a rocket.
AT&T, the second-largest U.S. wireless operator will start selling three new Motorola Android phones, ranging in price from US$79.99 to US$129.99 with a two-year contract.
In the recent past Nielsen revealed that Android had passed Apple’s iPhone in sales among new U.S. smartphone buyers in the second quarter, though it still trailed the BlackBerry. While BlackBerry retained the top spot among all U.S. smartphone owners with a 31% share, its lead over Apple as it is declining. IPhone accounted for 28% of users and Android reported 19%.
Microsoft Sues Motorola over Android phones
Microsoft the world’s largest software company has filed a patent- infringement case against Motorola claiming that the company’s Android-powered phones infringed on nine patents held by the software giant.
According to Microsoft deputy general counsel, Horacia Gutierrez, the alleged infringements centre on the way Motorola’s synchronize emails, calendars, contacts and meetings, in the way it notifies the user of changes in signal strength and battery power.
Microsoft filed two complaints: one with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington, which could ban U.S. imports of the phones if a violation is found; and second in federal court in Seattle in which Microsoft seeks unspecified cash compensation.
According to Gutierrez, the company has responsibility to the customers, partners and shareholders in order to safeguard the billions of dollars they invested each year in bringing innovative software products and services to the market. Motorola needs to stop its infringement of the company’s patented inventions in its Android smartphones.
Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington, is repairing its mobile-phone operating system to Windows Phone 7 this year to stem market-share losses to Apple Inc.’s iPhone and phones with Google Inc.’s Android software. Motorola’s disagreement is a part of mushrooming conflict over smartphones that includes Oracle Corp. suing Google and Apple fighting HTC Corp. and Nokia Oyj.
Motorola to unveil brand new Droid products for Verizon (USA)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: New smartphones under Verizon Wireless’s Droid line has been planned to be introduced by Motorola representing the carrier’s top-tier devices and typically benefit from a more aggressive marketing push. Verizon Wireless’s push at the end of last year for the original Droid phone benefitted Motorola but Motorola’s flagship device has been pushed aside with the launch of the Incredible from HTC Corp.
This has brought up so many issues like how the company remains competitive with so many other players in the market. According to Motorola Inc. co-CEO Sanjay Jha, size, brand and software provides it with the differentiation necessary to attract customers and added that the company will launch a new version of its Motoblur user interface later this year. He also noted that company has made tremendous progress in its transformation to a smartphone maker.
While touting the strong relationship that Motorola has with its carrier partners, Jha opined that the company is focused on ensuring that consumers like the devices, and that the company can ship its products in time. The company is also considering creating its own mobile operating system under certain conditions with all its focus on Android.
The constant revisions to Google Inc.’s Android software has been hailed as the biggest problem that the handset manufacturer has to face and these changes to the underlying framework of the software has made it difficult to upgrade quickly. Introducing Android 2.2 to phones is on the priority list of the firm and expects an aggressive launching since it will enable Flash on its phones. Installation of Flash is important for the customer’s Internet experience.
In the feature phone side, Jha also opined that he was managing the business for a modest profit, and that he sees the business stabilizing with more volume next year as it starts to benefit from its original equipment manufacturing deal. The production of low end phones has been outsourced by the company in an effort to maintain its brand in emerging markets and with a hope that customers from those countries will eventually buy a Motorola smartphone.
Android floats in space (USA)
Google Inc. drew considerable media attention last week with an idea and 33 influential friends.
Missing was its long-rumored gPhone, whose actual fate remains a closely guarded secret.
Instead, Google announced a consortium of 34 companies—the Open Handset Alliance (OHA)—and a common goal of producing an open-source, Linux-based operating system named Android. Apart from the cuddly name, the announcement had a whiff of d©j vu to it. A brimming handful of roughly analogous efforts have been launched since the turn of the century without disruptive effect.
The difference this time is Google’s plan to create a smartphone OS that could bring cheap smartphones to carriers and their subscribers, generate billions of eyeballs†for Google’s advertisers and, possibly, spark more demand for carriers’ revenue-generating data services.
But reality bites. Handsets running Android from OHA members Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Motorola Inc., LG Electronics Co. and HTC Corp. are due in the second half of 2008 at the soonest, probably led by HTC, according to that company. That’s a minimum of eight months, a virtual eternity in the mobile space, and certainly enough time for other heavyweights in the arena such as Nokia Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc.—all absent from the OHA’s membership, each with their own OS—to ratchet up the competition.
Google Inc. drew considerable media attention last week with an idea and 33 influential friends.
Missing was its long-rumored gPhone, whose actual fate remains a closely guarded secret.
Instead, Google announced a consortium of 34 companies—the Open Handset Alliance (OHA)—and a common goal of producing an open-source, Linux-based operating system named Android. Apart from the cuddly name, the announcement had a whiff of d©j vu to it. A brimming handful of roughly analogous efforts have been launched since the turn of the century without disruptive effect.
The difference this time is Google’s plan to create a smartphone OS that could bring cheap smartphones to carriers and their subscribers, generate billions of eyeballs†for Google’s advertisers and, possibly, spark more demand for carriers’ revenue-generating data services.
But reality bites. Handsets running Android from OHA members Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Motorola Inc., LG Electronics Co. and HTC Corp. are due in the second half of 2008 at the soonest, probably led by HTC, according to that company. That’s a minimum of eight months, a virtual eternity in the mobile space, and certainly enough time for other heavyweights in the arena such as Nokia Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc.—all absent from the OHA’s membership, each with their own OS—to ratchet up the competition.
Google Inc. drew considerable media attention last week with an idea and 33 influential friends.
Missing was its long-rumored gPhone, whose actual fate remains a closely guarded secret.
Instead, Google announced a consortium of 34 companies—the Open Handset Alliance (OHA)—and a common goal of producing an open-source, Linux-based operating system named Android. Apart from the cuddly name, the announcement had a whiff of d©j vu to it. A brimming handful of roughly analogous efforts have been launched since the turn of the century without disruptive effect.
The difference this time is Google’s plan to create a smartphone OS that could bring cheap smartphones to carriers and their subscribers, generate billions of eyeballs†for Google’s advertisers and, possibly, spark more demand for carriers’ revenue-generating data services.
But reality bites. Handsets running Android from OHA members Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Motorola Inc., LG Electronics Co. and HTC Corp. are due in the second half of 2008 at the soonest, probably led by HTC, according to that company. That’s a minimum of eight months, a virtual eternity in the mobile space, and certainly enough time for other heavyweights in the arena such as Nokia Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc.—all absent from the OHA’s membership, each with their own OS—to ratchet up the competition.
Google Inc. drew considerable media attention last week with an idea and 33 influential friends.
Missing was its long-rumored gPhone, whose actual fate remains a closely guarded secret.
Instead, Google announced a consortium of 34 companies—the Open Handset Alliance (OHA)—and a common goal of producing an open-source, Linux-based operating system named Android. Apart from the cuddly name, the announcement had a whiff of d©j vu to it. A brimming handful of roughly analogous efforts have been launched since the turn of the century without disruptive effect.
The difference this time is Google’s plan to create a smartphone OS that could bring cheap smartphones to carriers and their subscribers, generate billions of eyeballs†for Google’s advertisers and, possibly, spark more demand for carriers’ revenue-generating data services.
But reality bites. Handsets running Android from OHA members Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Motorola Inc., LG Electronics Co. and HTC Corp. are due in the second half of 2008 at the soonest, probably led by HTC, according to that company. That’s a minimum of eight months, a virtual eternity in the mobile space, and certainly enough time for other heavyweights in the arena such as Nokia Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc.—all absent from the OHA’s membership, each with their own OS—to ratchet up the competition.
Google Inc. drew considerable media attention last week with an idea and 33 influential friends.
Missing was its long-rumored gPhone, whose actual fate remains a closely guarded secret.
Instead, Google announced a consortium of 34 companies—the Open Handset Alliance (OHA)—and a common goal of producing an open-source, Linux-based operating system named Android. Apart from the cuddly name, the announcement had a whiff of d©j vu to it. A brimming handful of roughly analogous efforts have been launched since the turn of the century without disruptive effect.
The difference this time is Google’s plan to create a smartphone OS that could bring cheap smartphones to carriers and their subscribers, generate billions of eyeballs†for Google’s advertisers and, possibly, spark more demand for carriers’ revenue-generating data services.
But reality bites. Handsets running Android from OHA members Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Motorola Inc., LG Electronics Co. and HTC Corp. are due in the second half of 2008 at the soonest, probably led by HTC, according to that company. That’s a minimum of eight months, a virtual eternity in the mobile space, and certainly enough time for other heavyweights in the arena such as Nokia Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc.—all absent from the OHA’s membership, each with their own OS—to ratchet up the competition.
Google Inc. drew considerable media attention last week with an idea and 33 influential friends.
Missing was its long-rumored gPhone, whose actual fate remains a closely guarded secret.
Instead, Google announced a consortium of 34 companies—the Open Handset Alliance (OHA)—and a common goal of producing an open-source, Linux-based operating system named Android. Apart from the cuddly name, the announcement had a whiff of d©j vu to it. A brimming handful of roughly analogous efforts have been launched since the turn of the century without disruptive effect.
The difference this time is Google’s plan to create a smartphone OS that could bring cheap smartphones to carriers and their subscribers, generate billions of eyeballs†for Google’s advertisers and, possibly, spark more demand for carriers’ revenue-generating data services.
But reality bites. Handsets running Android from OHA members Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Motorola Inc., LG Electronics Co. and HTC Corp. are due in the second half of 2008 at the soonest, probably led by HTC, according to that company. That’s a minimum of eight months, a virtual eternity in the mobile space, and certainly enough time for other heavyweights in the arena such as Nokia Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc.—all absent from the OHA’s membership, each with their own OS—to ratchet up the competition.
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