Motorola and Cisco bail on dual-mode phone

Motorola and Cisco just scuttled plans for that CN620-followup handset (CN620 pictured) that would have worked seamlessly across both WiFi and Cellular networks. It appears that the poor industrial design and an "old" WiFi radio (lacking 802.11b/g support maybe?) used in the device are at least partly to blame for the falling axe. It would also seem that the carriers were a bit reluctant to join the cabal not to mention that little Scientific Atlanta acquisition which put Cisco in direct competition with Moto for set top boxes. Motorola is now focused on bringing their fixed / mobile convergence devices to market in the first half of 2007 which will play nice not only with Cisco, but also Nortel Networks, Avaya and others, and likely tout support for the Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) standard we've seen in their A910 already. Bad-blood aside, the Moto-Cisco partnership remains intact proving we can, just all get along.

[Via Computer World]