Motorola’s recent announcement regarding Windows Mobile smartphones left quite a few of my colleagues puzzled and/or shocked. How can Moto go, etc.
For them, a recent ComputerWorld interview brought salvation from despair – in it, a Motorola head honcho stated the following:
The ruggedized snap-on device alone weighs 3.5 oz. and includes a 13-button keypad. The MC-70 and MC-75 use Windows Mobile 6.0 and above. Viscount said that despite some recent rumors by bloggers, Motorola’s enterprise division “remains 100% committed to Windows Mobile.”
Unfortunately, we know better at the Tamoggemon Content network. If our friend was quoted correctly above, he was referring to the enterprise division…aka the folks which were known as Symbol before their company was bought up by Motorola.
These guys have produced a variety of successful handhelds running WM (shot on the left), and thus have little reason to ditch. The consumer division, on the other hand, seems to fare worse.
Let’s just look at the Q11. Its predecessor was sold all over the world – while the Q11 is limited to a few Latin American CDMA markets. The MotoSURF is limited to Asia…all of which doesn’t leave me too confident about the future of the manufacturer…
What do you think?
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