Motorola posts $3.6b loss as devices sales fall by 26 percent
By Nilay Patel 
posted Feb 3rd 2009 11:38AM
posted Feb 3rd 2009 11:38AM
Things just aren't getting any better for Motorola -- just weeks after the troubled phone manufacturer announced deep layoffs, it's revealing that it lost $3.6 billion dollars in the fourth quarter. The loss is mainly attributed to falling device sales: handsets were down 26 percent, and mobile devices total were down 51 percent. According to Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha, the answer for now is Android phones, which the company thinks will be more competitive than WinMo devices in 2009 -- and he interestingly said that Moto plans on continuing to make Windows Mobile devices because it thinks WinMo 7 will be a big deal when it comes out in 2010. That's the first time we've ever heard a date on WinMo 7, if you're keeping track -- and if it's right, it'll be the second time Jha's blown the lid on an upcoming version of Windows Mobile. Whoops! We'll be watching that one, but for now here's hoping Moto rights the ship with something like an Android-based SURF A3100 -- otherwise it may not even be around in 2010.
Moto deserves it.
Each phone they come out with looks like the RAZR.
Come out with something new please... Maybe you won't lose anymore marketshare
Yeah. I think the lack of user interface is really killing them and if they do not push out at LEAST a respectable smartphone in the near future we will be hearing more about job cuts from this company. Common, you've hinted at andriod.. and we haven't even been leaked a shot.
Motorola, you're so behind in technological advancement because you spent all your f****n money on advertising for your stupid dumbphones, nowadays, people are offering more for less. You're so bad, that you think a 5 megapixel camera on a phone is like.. what, a saint? GET WITH THE TIMES- SO RATTLED AT YOU!!
call your new device economic savior and link it with a 3+ captive touchscreen, full qwerty, 5MP and some decent storage or at least SD with ANDROID. come on, look at the friggen N97 coming up.. you're gonna get blow the hell out of the water!
whoa.. sorry for freaking out boys..
moto just loves slacking..
Looks like Moto knicked itself w the RAZR and is not bleeding red...
(ill go ahead and *zing myself)
ZING!
ah frakk... i was too excited and sent too quickly.
"and is NOW bleeding red..."