Motorola Z9

The Motorola Z9 is a classic slider phone with built in GPS. It is packed with music playback and online music downloads as well as HSDPA connectivity to support the GPS downloading and online store. This is pretty much a straightforward classic design and is a good upgrade for anyone who loves Motorola’s design and user interface.

HSDPA 3.5G
2.0MP camera with flash
Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
MPEG4 video support and capture

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Motorola Q 9h

An updated version to the first Q, the Q9h is Moto’s follow up to their “MotoBerry.” Motorola met up with me to show off some of the newer phones which were demo’ed at CES 2008. Now it’s the Q’s turn to shine. The main differences between this model and the previous Q is made apparent from the real estate. It sports a better use of space in the keyboard, utilizing the entire bottom half of the keypad for buttons. The Q runs on Windows Mobile 6 as well.

GSM Quad Band
HSDPA 3.6Mbps
Micro USB connectivity
256MB internal flash memory / 96MB RAM / optional 2GB microSD expansion
2.0MP camera with fixed focus and digital zoom
Wide variety of audio formats including AMR, MWA, MP3, AAC(+), WAV and MIDI

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Motorola may just leave the mobile phone business

Analysts say that Motorola may be destined to leave the mobile phone market. The last living would be an acquisition of a Chinese company (ie how moved to Lenovo IBM) to help fix things. Thing is, the Chinese have no idea what to do to fix Motorola, as reported by Richard Windsor of Nomura. Sad. Instead, Motorola will concentrate its efforts on other infrastructure projects, which is really his arm stronger.

I recall attending a press conference of Motorola, as they outlined their plans for government and private sector infrastructure development. These products include networking, solutions and WiMAX mesh radio system for calamities. These products seemed way too far and stable compared with what they were doing with their mobile phone division. I mean, what sold the RAZR is not the user interface - is the form factor that really did not follow with the passage of time through. New models consisted of new colors… and that was it.

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Cellphone News : Motorola W490 Out on September 24

September 24 is a red letter day for the Motorola W490, which looks like the sleek and chic KRZR. Well, yeah, sans the jampacked features, as it lacks a camera, Bluetooth and other goodies the KRZR has to offer. The W490 is comparable to the W385 or the . I’ll stop talking about what this phone doesn’t have and focus on what it has and can do, such as music playback capability, MMS, T-Mobile’s myFaves service, among others. I hope this has a radio atleast. But hey, it’s slim and easy on the pocket!

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New Cellphone Review MOTORAZR2 V8

New Cellphone Review MOTORAZR2 V8

Motorola takes its already slim RAZR and makes it even slimmer, and encases it in a stainless steel structure. As it shrinks, the amount of media it carries grows. The MOTORAZR2 V8 measures in at a waifish 11.9mm and comes clothed in reflective vacuumized metal and hardened glass. It possesses a 2 inch QVGA external color display surrounded by interactive soft keys with vib response. It comes with Windows Media Player 11 which allows access to 200 online music stores such as MTV Urge, Yahoo and Napster. The RAZR2 also carries around a 2MP camera with 8x digital zoom, which also allows up to 2 hours of video capture. Enjoy music through stereo micro-USB headset or a compatible Bluetooth enabled headset. It carries around 512MB of on-board shared memory allowing up to 200 songs. It also uses CrystalTalk noise-control technology allowing for clear voice quality even in noisy locales.

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Cellphone Review Motorola RAZR2

Cellphone Review Motorola RAZR2

Hello again folks, today is time for the new Motorola RAZR2 V8 (hello moto:D). The desktop is not much diferent than the desktop in our last model that I described, TFT with 262.144 colours (18bit) with the resolution of 240x320 pixels. The cam isn`t so good how I expected, with 1,90 megapixels, but for a mobile phone it`s good. The memory of 480 MB is enough and there is the support for microSD cards. All motorolas from the series Vx are good, this is a good reason too buy this model, but the price is something like discutable.

Supported formats:mid, MP3
Memory:480MB + microSD card
Battery:950 mAh
Web adress:www.motorola.com/RAZR2V8

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New Cellphone : Motorola Macro, First Motorola Phone with WiFi

Motorola brings WiFi feature to his newest handphone, Motorola Marco. The Motorola Marco becomes first handphone of Motorola ( not be including the smartphone) with Wi-Fi feature. Motorola Marco applies operating system JUIX with display which more draws. The specification looks like Z3 with konektifity quad-band GSM/EDGE, 2 megapixel Camera, and is rather thicker.

When a period of his launchs still have not been confirmed, because RAZR 2 will become priority in this year. Possibility January 2008 handphone is has just been launched.

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Motorola posts $28M loss in 2Q

Motorola Inc. reported a second straight loss Thursday after another quarter of subpar sales, a $28 million deficit that raises pressure on the handset maker and CEO Ed Zander in what he acknowledged has been "a very difficult year."

The company promised financial improvement in its cell-phone division in the second half but steered clear of estimates after weak international sales contributed to back-to-back losses for the first time in five years.

Its hopes for recovery, on hold until next year, hinge on the reception of new phones like the Razr 2 and the Z8 that are just being shipped.

Some investors also are clamoring for the board of directors to replace Zander, whose 3 1/2-year run as chief executive has been tarnished by the company's botched sales strategy following two years of notable success linked to runaway sales of the Razr phone.

Tom Meredith, a Motorola board member as well as chief financial officer since March, said Zander still has directors' backing.

"The board is of the opinion that we have the right strategy and we have the right leadership team," he told The Associated Press.

Zander, who also is chairman, said he found "amazing" the recent speculation about the board looking for his successor and potentially considering the sale of some businesses. He said the board reviews succession planning regularly.

"Speculation has been going on on a lot of different things, and there are some things that just people aren't getting right out there," he said in a telephone interview, declining to comment on specifics. "I don't know where all these things get started."

The source of investors' concern is not hard to understand, with Motorola in the midst of its worst stretch since a string of six straight quarters in the red from 2000-02 and thought by analysts to have slipped beneath Samsung Electronics Co. to third place behind Nokia Corp. in the global handset market.

Mark Sue, an analyst for RBC Capital Markets, said the Schaumburg, Ill.-based company is "staring up a big mountain" before it gets back to where it needs to be.

"Motorola still has much work to do to fix mobile devices," he said in a note to investors. The company, he said, "will be in rebuilding-mode for the remainder of 2007."

Second-quarter results brought a handful of bright spots but mostly a slew of bad numbers for Motorola, which had warned last week that its results would fall short of expectations,

Few were as indicative of its deterioration and cutbacks as the total of 35.5 million handsets it shipped during the quarter — down a whopping 46 percent from the fourth quarter when the cell-phone business was still near its peak.

The net loss amounted to a penny per share, down from a profit of $1.38 billion, or 55 cents per share, in the same period a year ago. Net loss from continuing operations totaled $38 million, or 2 cents per share, and included charges of 4 cents per share from job cuts and insurance litigation.

Revenue fell 19 percent to $8.73 billion from $10.82 billion. Its mobile phone business led the way in the decline, accounting for less than half of sales at $4.27 billion, down 40 percent from a year ago.

The company's other two segments saw an increase in revenue.

Zander acknowledged that "there weren't many really new 'wow' products" in Motorola's portfolio in the first half of 2007.

"This has certainly been a very difficult year," he told analysts on a conference call.

He said several areas of improvement in the quarter provide the basis for a second-half financial pickup: a decline in inventory channels and gross margins, higher average selling price, a lower cost structure and the recent flurry of new products.

Greg Brown, the company's president and chief operating officer, said Motorola is "not hoping for the one-hit wonder" as it seeks to follow up on the Razr's phenomenal success. "We want a more balanced, predictable portfolio," he said in an interview.

Banc of America Securities analyst Tim Long said the company's profit margins are at their lowest level in recent history but appear to be bottoming out, along with market share. "It will take a few quarters for fundamentals to rebound," he said in a note to investors.

The company's other two segments besides cell phones saw an increase in revenue. But Philip Cusick of Bear Stearns said the better-than-expected $1.9 billion in sales from the enterprise mobility segment, which sells communications equipment to businesses, wasn't nearly enough to offset the problems in the handset business.

"We believe management is taking appropriate steps, but the problems are far steeper than many imagined," he wrote.

For the first six months of the year, the company lost $207 million, or 9 cents a share, compared with a profit of $2.07 billion, or 84 cents a share, in the first half of 2006. Revenue fell 11 percent to $18.2 billion from $20.5 billion.

Motorola shares rose 22 cents to $18.22 on Thursday. They are down 30 percent from last October.

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Motorola posts quarterly loss, revenue down

Motorola Inc.posted its second straight quarterly loss on Thursday as a lack of advanced mobile phones cost the company market share and dropped it into third place in the industry behind Nokia (NOK1V.HE) and Samsung Electronics.

Motorola's results were in line with lowered expectations following the company's earnings warning last week. But it further disappointed some analysts by failing to give a revenue forecast for the third quarter.

"The big worry remains the top line, and market share in handsets, where they're ceding a ton," said Cowen & Co analyst Matthew Hoffman.

Motorola said it shipped 35.5 million mobile phones in the second quarter, giving it an estimated 13.5 percent share of the global market, down from about 17.5 percent in the first quarter. JPMorgan analyst Ehud Gelblum estimated Motorola's share at an even lower 12.8 percent for the second quarter.

The latest figures show that Samsung overtook Motorola as the industry No. 2, behind Nokia in the quarter.

After four straight disappointing quarters, Motorola Chief Executive Ed Zander has come under increasing pressure from shareholders, some of whom have called for his ouster.

But Chief Financial Officer Tom Meredith, who also sits on the Motorola board, told Reuters in an interview that the company was not looking for a successor and was confident in its leadership team.

Motorola posted a second-quarter loss from continuing operations of $38 million, or 2 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier profit of $1.35 billion, or 54 cents per share.

Including earnings from discontinued operations, Motorola's net loss was $28 million, or 1 cent per share.

Net sales fell 19 percent to $8.7 billion.

Hoffman said it was worrying that Motorola appeared to lose market share not only to Nokia, but to smaller rivals such as LG Electronics (066570.KS) and Sony Ericsson, a venture of Sony Corp (6758.T) and Ericsson (ERICb.ST).

In a conference call with analysts, CEO Zander said that Motorola was "doing the right things."

But he added, "Make no mistake about it, there is still a lot more to do."

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Motorola repeated its expectation that the mobile devices unit, its biggest business, will not be profitable for the full year, but it said it expects the unit's results to improve in the second half.

It said it expects third-quarter earnings per share from continuing operations to be flat to slightly up from the second quarter, excluding items such as reorganization charges.

Cowen's Hoffman said Motorola's lack of revenue guidance could mean it expects more declines.

"It means they're prepared to continue to let (market) share decline, which is a longer-term concern," he said. "The main thing that will improve the long-term profitability of Motorola is an improvement of the handset portfolio."

Meredith said the lack of revenue guidance was due to the difficulty of predicting the highly competitive industry.

"Its just a question of prudence... given the volatility of the industry," Meredith said.

Zander said the company, which has been criticized for failing to develop a popular follow-up phone it its flagship Razr and for cutting prices of the Razr too quickly, needs new phones to help turn around the business.

He said Motorola was "working very hard on the 2008 portfolio" of mobile phones.

Motorola's mobile device unit sales fell 40 percent in the second quarter to $4.3 billion, and the unit posted a loss of $264 million, compared with operating earnings of $804 million a year earlier.

Motorola said its enterprise wireless unit, which sells equipment to corporate and government customers, posted a revenue increase of 42 percent, to $1.9 billion.

Sales for its television set-top box and network equipment business, which supplies to service providers, rose 9 percent to $2.6 billion.

Motorola said it has now sold 100 million versions of the Razr, which first came on the market in late 2004 and was still one of the company's best sellers in the quarter.

Motorola shares were up 30 cents to $18.30 in early afternoon trade on the New York Stock Exchange as some investors hoped the company's worst results were behind it. Analysts have also said that the shares, which have lost a third of their value since mid-October, have been trading recently on the value of the company's assets rather than its quarterly results.

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Motorola sees slowdown in mobile sales

Amid increasing competition in a fickle cell phone market, Motorola Inc. expects to report a loss for its mobile devices business in 2007 and now estimates that second quarter sales will be lower than expected.

The number two handset maker said on Wednesday that second quarter sales for the company would be US$8.6 billion to $8.7 billion, instead of $9.4 billion as previously expected.

That drop in expected sales is the result of lower handset sales, particularly in Asia and Europe, Motorola said. In the second quarter, Motorola expects to report sales of 35 million to 36 million handsets. That will lead to a larger operating loss for the mobile device business in the second quarter compared to the first quarter, it said.

During the first quarter, Motorola sold 45.5 million phones. At the time, the company said it foresaw a gradual recovery of its mobile phone business throughout the rest of the year with expectations of a profitable year.

Motorola now expects a second quarter generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) loss per share in the range of $0.02 to $0.04.

The company will announce its earnings for the second quarter 2007 on July 19 and will offer further details then, it said.

Motorola also announced that it named a new president for the mobile division: Stu Reed, formerly executive vice president of integrated supply chain for Motorola. Reed's predecessor, Ron Garriques, left the company in February to head up Dell Inc.'s global consumer division.

Prior to its first quarter earnings report, Motorola also had to warn that sales would be lower than expected. It made some executive changes then, including the appointment of a new president. Earlier in the year, Motorola had implemented a new plan to help it improve profitability but that plan wasn't working out, the company said during the first quarter earnings warning.

Most of the large handset makers are struggling to keep profits up as sales in established markets such as Europe stagnate since most people there already have phones. The companies are increasingly branching out into emerging markets such as India and China, but they must sell their phones at lower prices to win customers there. That's squeezing profit margins.

In addition, Motorola is notorious for producing hit phones, like the Razr, that sell well but then failing to follow up with additional models that continue the momentum.

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Motorola sees slowdown in mobile sales

Amid increasing competition in a fickle cell phone market, Motorola Inc. expects to report a loss for its mobile devices business in 2007 and now estimates that second quarter sales will be lower than expected.

The number two handset maker said on Wednesday that second quarter sales for the company would be US$8.6 billion to $8.7 billion, instead of $9.4 billion as previously expected.

That drop in expected sales is the result of lower handset sales, particularly in Asia and Europe, Motorola said. In the second quarter, Motorola expects to report sales of 35 million to 36 million handsets. That will lead to a larger operating loss for the mobile device business in the second quarter compared to the first quarter, it said.

During the first quarter, Motorola sold 45.5 million phones. At the time, the company said it foresaw a gradual recovery of its mobile phone business throughout the rest of the year with expectations of a profitable year.

Motorola now expects a second quarter generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) loss per share in the range of $0.02 to $0.04.

The company will announce its earnings for the second quarter 2007 on July 19 and will offer further details then, it said.

Motorola also announced that it named a new president for the mobile division: Stu Reed, formerly executive vice president of integrated supply chain for Motorola. Reed's predecessor, Ron Garriques, left the company in February to head up Dell Inc.'s global consumer division.

Prior to its first quarter earnings report, Motorola also had to warn that sales would be lower than expected. It made some executive changes then, including the appointment of a new president. Earlier in the year, Motorola had implemented a new plan to help it improve profitability but that plan wasn't working out, the company said during the first quarter earnings warning.

Most of the large handset makers are struggling to keep profits up as sales in established markets such as Europe stagnate since most people there already have phones. The companies are increasingly branching out into emerging markets such as India and China, but they must sell their phones at lower prices to win customers there. That's squeezing profit margins.

In addition, Motorola is notorious for producing hit phones, like the Razr, that sell well but then failing to follow up with additional models that continue the momentum.

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Motorola to buy quad-play service delivery vendor

Motorola has agreed to acquire Leapstone Systems, which makes software that helps carriers create and deliver services for wired and wireless networks.

Terms of the deal were not announced. Privately held Leapstone, in Somerset, New Jersey, was founded in 2001 and counts AT&T and Verizon among its customers. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of this year.

Leapstone's CCE (Communications Convergence Engine) is a service delivery platform that can be used for many types of services, including fast-growing technologies like IPTV and VoIP.

Telecommunications service providers and cable operators are bundling voice, video, data, and mobile services so they can offer subscribers new applications and make them more loyal. This "three-screen" strategy lets them serve customers on their TVs, PCs, and 3G cell phones. For example, a carrier with both an IPTV and a cellular service might let subscribers watch some shows on their TV or their mobile phone.

The Leapstone acquisition gives Motorola an overarching service delivery system for all these services. CCE complements Motorola's Global Applications Management Architecture, which is specific to mobile networks and will continue to be used for certain mobile functions, said Sean Matthews, a senior director of strategy at Motorola. The services created and delivered with CCE would not be specific to Motorola's own broadband set-top boxes, he said.

Leapstone's 75 employees, who work at a Canadian development center and other facilities as well as in Somerset, all will join Motorola, Matthews said.

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Motorola taking $101M 2Q charge for cuts

Motorola Inc., the world's No. 2 cell-phone maker behind Nokia Corp., said it will take a pretax charge of $101 million in its second quarter after cutting 2,100 jobs.

The company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing late Thursday that the total consists of $115 million in layoff-related charges and $14 million in reversals for prior-period accruals that it no longer needs.

Motorola said in May that it would complete an already-announced plan to lay off 3,500 employees by June 30. At that time, the cell phone maker also said it would cut another 4,000 jobs.

The Schaumburg-based company has been struggling since last fall when it became clear that its strategy of boosting market share by aggressively cutting its phone prices had backfired and was hurting profit margins significantly. The company this spring posted its first quarterly loss since 2004.

The company hopes a new cell phone lineup, anchored by the Razr 2, along with a restructuring plan, will help engineer a turnaround.

Motorola shares rose 4 cents to $17.84 Friday. The stock price is off more than 30 percent since last October.

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Motorola selling Razr2 phone in S.Korea

Motorola Inc. started selling the next generation model of its popular, ultra-slim Razr cell phone in South Korea Friday, ahead of a global launch scheduled for July.

"We're releasing our new phone in the Korean market first in recognition of tech-savvy and fashion-aware Korean consumers," Motorola Korea Inc. said in a statement.

The new phone, called "Razr2," will be available via SK Telecom Co., Korea's largest wireless carrier by revenue. It retails at about 580,000 Korean won ($630) before handset subsidies, Motorola said.

The world's second-largest handset maker by sales, unveiled the new cell phone last month in a bid to resurrect its ailing handset business. The new phone has a slimmer frame, larger screen and improved call quality compared with its predecessor.

Schaumburg, Illinois-based Motorola has sold nearly 100 million Razr phones, but has struggled to find a successor to it.

Motorola accounted for 11.5 percent of the Korean handset market as of the end of April. Samsung Electronics Co. held 55 percent and LG Electronics Inc. had 19 percent, according to Korea-based ATLAS Research Group.

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