A Sigh and An Hope...Two article of Motorola

[A sigh]

Motorola tries to find the bottom
Investors hoping for a sign that the No. 3 phone maker is on the comeback are likely to be disappointed.
By Scott Moritz, writer

http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/23/technology/moritz_motorola.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008042315

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Expect another glimpse of the ongoing collapse of Motorola's phone business when the company reports first-quarter earnings Thursday.

Motorola, the No. 3 handset maker, has already outlined in recent weeks some of the more dreary details of its steady slide: 2,600 jobs cuts, a plan to jettison the money-losing mobile phone unit in a spin off to shareholders, and a search for a handset chief to help stabilize if not rebuild the business.

Investors are bracing for more bad news Thursday morning. Motorola is expected to post a loss of seven cents a share on $7.75 billion in sales for the quarter ended March 31, according to analyst estimates. That compares to earnings of two cents a share on $9.43 billion in sales in the year-ago quarter.

[An Hope]

Motorola Hits Domestic 3G Mobile Handset Market
매일경제 | 기사입력 2008.04.22 19:45

http://media.daum.net/foreign/englishnews/view.html?cateid=1047&newsid=20080422194508685&cp=mk

Motorola has penetrated into the domestic third-generation (3G) mobile handset market, which is currently trisected by Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and Pantech, with its 3G mobile handset model "Z8m" launched on April 22.

"We have developed the first 3G mobile handset model which is up to the standard of Korean consumers who expect a 3G phone with superior functions and a sophisticated design," said Rick Wolochatiuk, head of the mobile business division at Motorola Korea.

"Starting with Z8m, we will beef up our product portfolio aimed at catering to Korean consumers' appetite to launch additional 3G phones of various types," he added.

Motorola's brand-new Z8m has adopted the "kick-slider" design in which the opening of the handset's slide automatically snaps the body so as to better align with the user's facial curve.

With the titanium color in the background, the upper brim of the slide and the following line are tinted with orange while the joint connecting the slide and the body is hidden to give a smooth touch.

The handset supports video calls with the data transfer rate of 7.2Mbps and carries an external memory chip with a maximum capacity of 4GB, a 2 million-pixel camera and Bluetooth function.

[Sun-young Park / KHS]
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