Motorola gets snubbed again, Samsung won't be buying either

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Filed under: Cellphones
It looks like Motorola is fast running out of potential suitors for its cellphone business, with Samsung now joining LG and Sony Ericsson is saying that it has no interest in picking up the division that Motorola is supposedly still "committed" to. Specifically, Samsung's Choi Gee-sung said that Motorola would not make a good "supplement" for the company, and that there are "many overlapping areas and little to gain," which pretty much echoes the sentiment from the two aforementioned companies. Despite increasingly appearing like the player no one wants to pick for their team, however, some unspecified "analysts" think that the division valued at $9 to 12 billion could eventually find a buyer, and they're throwing around names like Huawei and even Dell as possibilities. Needless to say, we'll believe that last one when we see it.

[Via mocoNews.net]
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Motorola not leaving handset business [ 12-02-2008 17:41 ]
Author: Klimov Oleg Translation by: Administrator

For those dedicated Motorola fans out there, wondering if they indeed will pull out of the mobile phone handset business, can now breathe a sigh of relief, as yesterday, they said they are “fully committed” to the mobile phone handset business, and their strategic review hopes to bring about a “product-led” recovery, for the loss-making handset division.

The rumours of Motorola exiting the handset division ran amok in late January, when the US-based phone giant said it was contemplating splitting its mobile devices from its other businesses, as part of a "structural and strategic realignment", in order to re-establish itself, to re-claim its lost marketshare.

Its fairly obvious that Motorola has lost marketshare to the likes of Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson, Motorola failed to capitalise on its once-dominant RAZR phone. Don McLellan, Motorola's senior vice president for corporate development and strategy, had some interesting input: "The market had dramatically undervalued mobile devices. That was a concern to us, McLellan said in an interview, adding, "We know it can regain market leadership” This is yet another clear sign that Motorola really are committed to once again dominate the handset business, with its fresh ideas. McLellan said Motorola's focus was on its mobile devices unit, as other businesses were doing "extraordinarily well."

To further add to the reassurance of Motorola not opting out, Motorola CEO Greg Brown had this to say, at the Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona: “I don't want there to be any confusion," "Motorola is fully committed to the mobile devices business and I am fully committed to mobile devices."

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[Tomszyn]

No, Motorola stay with us. Dont worry.