Well, things are looking up at Motorola — if you can count sales climbing from being 40% down year-on-year last quarter to being 36% down this quarter. Although it shipped 37.2 million phones, Moto’s handset division managed to lose $138m (about £68m) in three months, which is about half what it lost in the last quarter — so at least things are improving on that front.
Let’s hope the recent purchase of 50% of the UIQ operating system maker from Sony Ericsson, along with the much-debated 2008 Motorola handset line-up, can turn things around for Moto’s handset division. Word is, though, that Motorola is banking heavily on WiMAX (long-range wi-fi broadband) taking off, and that the phone division’s teams lack the management support needed to bring killer new handsets to market.
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