Motorola manages minuscule profit, clings to bronze medal
It has been a solid tick since Motorola had a quarterly earnings report that it didn't just send over via the paper airplane method and run for the hills, but the most recent one was actually worth cracking a smile over. After moving more mobiles in North America than it expected too, shares shot up 13% and bullish analysts began to think that the worst was over. Chief Executive Greg Brown noted that Moto will be "adding substantially to its product portfolio" here in the near future, which will hopefully enable it to get a stronger grasp on the number 3 handset maker ranking. During the most recent quarter, the outfit shipped 28.1 million phones to just barely maintain its market share lead over LG, though it remains to be seen if it can keep this up. No pressure Moto, no pressure at all.[Via RCRWireless]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ricardo Torres @ Aug 2nd 2008 1:36PM
MOTO had/has this coming out:
-- Blaze ZN4
-- VU30
-- Q9C & Q9-Napoleon
-- V750
-- W755
-- Z9
-- RAZR V9X
-- W760R
LG had/has this coming out:
-- Voyager & Voyager Silver
-- Chocolate 3
-- Dare
-- Decoy
-- ENV2
-- VU
-- Shine
...I think MOTO stands a chance to keep their 3rd spot in Q4 of 2008, LG's offerings are less in qty and higher in price. So MOTO is probably getting away in volume definitely not in better phones.
we'll see what their "impressive" line up for 2009 ends up being.
tim @ Aug 2nd 2008 5:22PM
Wheres my black v9x? att hasnt helped any , all they care about is the iphone and the other manufactures should be very upset with them for not promoting there products too. moto cant sell phones that att&t orders in awefull colors with crippled features, and they cant sell phones if at&t wont launch them. when ed zander said I love my job but hate my customers, He meant the u.s.carriers. They have alot to do with motos slide.. we all know that steve jobs is calling all the shots at at&t now. its soooooooo pathetic.