unwiredview.com - 11/4/2008
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Wall Street Journal today has an interesting article (subsrciption required) about the changes coming to the struggling Motorola handset division.
The article details the changes in Motorola strategy initiated by the new head of handset division Sanjay Jha, that may be announced during ...
Can Motorola’s Big Bet on Android Pay Off? [GigaOM]
gigaom.com 10/29/2008 — A few days ago Business Week reported that Motorola was working on a new social networking oriented Google Android powered smartphone. Later we pointed out that Motorola’s experiment with Android goes beyond just one phone. Today, The Wall Street ...
Motorola: No Android Handset Before Christmas 2009
blog.wired.com 10/31/2008 —
It's going to get a lot worse for Motorola before it gets better.
Slipping into a loss this quarter, the company said it will have its first smartphone based on Android, the open source mobile operating system from Google, in the market in ...
Motorola expected to cut more jobs as it simplifies around Android
engadgetmobile.com 10/30/2008 — Ugh, it looks like Thursday is shaping up to be another sad Moto day. The Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that Sanjay Jha , former Qualcomm exec and Motorola co-CEO tasked with resurrecting Motorola's mobile-devices division, is about ...
Motorola Bets Big On Android
blog.wired.com 10/29/2008 —
As one of the first members of the Open Handset Alliance , Motorola has been an early backer of Google's Android operating system.
But now it looks like the company's support for Android will run deeper than previously expected.
Motorola is ...
Will Motorola Go All-In On Android? It Has No Other Choice.
techcrunch.com 10/29/2008 —
Motorola’s new co-CEO Sanjay Jha has a plan to save the beleaguered mobile handset maker: go all-in on Google’s Android mobile operating system. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal (behind the pay wall):
Sanjay Jha, who ...
Sprint Skins
sprint.skinit.com 11/6/2008 — Motorola i205 Code: MTR205 Motorola i265 Code: MTR265 Motorola i315 Code: MTR315 Motorola i335 Code: MTI335 Motorola i355 Code: MTR355 Motorola i365 Code: MTI365 Motorola i530 Code: MTR530 Motorola i560 Code: MTR560 Motorola ...
Motorola expected to cut more jobs as it simplifies around Android
engadget.com 10/29/2008 — Ugh, it looks like Thursday is shaping up to be another sad Moto day. The Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that Sanjay Jha , former Qualcomm exec and Motorola co-CEO tasked with resurrecting Motorola's mobile-devices division, is about ...
Motorola Fully Assimilated?
mobilitysite.com 1/15/2009 — If reports I got today are true, then it appears to be pretty cut and dried that the Motorola we once knew is not only dead, but being buried and danced upon even as we speak. The proud producer of such past gems as the RAZR and the Q (which I ...
Motorola Confirms Layoffs
pcworld.com 11/2/2008 — Motorola officials confirmed Friday that $800 million in cuts planned for 2009 will require laying off about 3,000 workers, with a little more than two-thirds of those job cuts coming from the handset division. About layoffs will be made globally ...
Motorola Readies Its Own Android Social Smartphone
businessweek.com 10/20/2008 — Amid a boom in social-network-friendly handsets, Motorola prepares a new entry, but its Android may not debut until 2009's second quarter By Olga Kharif As the wireless world awaits the Oct. 22 debut of the first phone based on the Google-backed ...
Android Market approaching 3 million download mark —
FierceDeveloper 11/3/2008
Closing in on two weeks since Google launched its Android Market virtual storefront, mobile ad firm Medialets reports that as of Oct. 29, 167 mobile applications have been downloaded somewhere between 667,000 and 2.9 million times, with 41 apps ...
Motorola bets future on Android, Windows Mobile —
FierceDeveloper 11/3/2008
Motorola will stake its future on developing Android- and Windows Mobile-based smartphones that can compete with Apple's iPhone and Research In Motion's BlackBerry portfolio. Speaking last week in a conference call following the announcement of ...