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Thursday July 30, 2009
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Motorola spent most of their quarterly analyst conference call today talking up the wonders of Android, and they didn't have a word about Windows Mobile. Not a word. The phrase "Windows Mobile" was not spoken during the whole discussion of their consumer mobile-phone business. Instead, you got quotes like this:
"The majority of our new devices will be smart phones, as we expand Android across a broader set of price points," Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said.
The conflation of "smart phone" with "Android" to the exclusion of Windows Mobile led me to ask for clarification from a Motorola spokeswoman. She said,
"For 2009, mobile devices primary strategy is Android. With that said, Windows Mobile is very important for our enterprise mobility business."
Motorola's enterprise mobility business, formerly known as Symbol, designs hard-core handhelds for big businesses. Is Motorola's line of consumer Windows Mobile phones, such as the Q9h, done with? I notice they didn't specifically say that, but it's really sounding like it.
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July 30, 2009 8:29 PM
That's a pretty bold move from the maker of the Razr, whose entire success - or lack thereof - over the past several years has been based on non-smartphone devices.
I could be missing some of the point here and that only Motorola's smartphone division will focus on Android devices, but considering growing interest in smarter phones (if not technically smartphones), I can't see why Motorola would put any additional effort into stagnating products.