The 5th of this year, Motorola Mobile Google (microblogging) the acquisition, the company will be held September 5 in New York with Verizon Wireless Cooperation held a press conference. Sources said the new Motorola mobile phone is expected to be available later this year sales, and will use a version of the Android system. The phone will be the most important since the acquisition of Motorola Mobile, launched a product. This product is also in the United States market borderless mobile phone, one of the first batch of All This means the entire front panel of the phone is occupied by the screen. This will be designed to maximize the viewing area of the screen.
Related
Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Motorola Inc., which has lost mobile- phone market share to all of its major rivals, rose the most in almost four years in New York trading after saying it may bow to shareholder pressure and shed its money-losing handset unit.
Chief Executive Officer Greg Brown said yesterday that the Schaumburg, Illinois-based company is exploring its options, including a possible separation of its mobile-devices business.
The announcement pleased investors including billionaire Carl Icahn, who have demanded that the company dispose of the unit. The business, which accounts for about half of Motorola's revenue, lost $388 million last quarter as customers defected to phones from Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc.
``Enough people, from Carl Icahn to many others, have suggested that this is the best thing for Motorola to do,'' said Mark Mowrey, a Laguna Beach, California-based analyst at Al Frank Asset Management, which owns Motorola shares. ``I hope it's not a reaction from the executive side to a lot of the near-term sentiment the company is hearing from investors.''
Motorola jumped $1.11, or 9.7 percent, to $12.61 at 3:31 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading, the most since April 2004, after rising 13 percent to $12.97 earlier. The stock had fallen 42 percent in the past year before today.
Citigroup Inc. upgraded the shares to ``buy'' from ``hold'' after the announcement.
Motorola's phone shipments plunged 38 percent last quarter after it lost customers to Apple's iPhone and camera phones from Samsung. That brought Motorola closer to losing its spot as the third-largest handset maker in the world.
Icahn's Plan
MOre
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601213&sid=aEcnAL7NbrpQ&refer=home
think pretty much the same thing happend when the swedish ericsson
when they sold off their mobile part to merge with sony
High Tech Computer (HTC) will soon ship its one millionth Touch Diamond handset, just a few months after its launch in June, despite stiff competition from Apple's iPhone 3G.
By comparison, Apple took just three days to sell a million of its popular new iPhone 3G and 74 days to sell the first million units of its original iPhone. Few products measure up to the hype and popularity of the Apple device.
The Touch Diamond, a Microsoft Windows Mobile-based 3G (third generation telecommunications) smartphone with a 2.8-inch touchscreen, is HTC's fastest selling handset ever, said Maggie Cheng, an HTC representative. The smartphone is selling well in Europe and Asia, she said, but has not yet launched in the U.S. or Japan.
HTC expects to ship over 2 million Touch Diamond handsets by the end of this year.
The Touch Diamond has been popular among gadget blogs and technology Web sites for its cutting-edge technology and the contoured diamond-shaped backside, as well as its status as a rival to the iPhone 3G.
Strong demand for the Touch Diamond indicate the iPhone continues to expand the overall market for smartphones, a theory analysts that some market researchers, such as Canalys and Gartner, have put forth as a reason rival products sell well against the popular Apple handset. There had been fears that Apple's US$199 price tag might significantly slow down the competition, but companies including HTC have been able to provide similar pricing for their smartphones.
The Touch Diamond has already been launched by over 50 operators in 30 countries around the world.
On Monday, HTC announced a deal with Taiwan Mobile to offer the Touch Diamond for free to people who sign a 3G contract. The cost of the handset is recouped over time through the contract, as is the case with the iPhone 3G.
HTC had originally planned to launch the Touch Diamond for NT$23,900 (US$781) in Taiwan.
HTC is the world's largest maker of smartphones that use Microsoft software, and the Touch Diamond pits the Windows Mobile 6.1 OS against Apple's iPhone software.
The company also plans to introduce four or five more Diamond family products in the second half of this year, including the Touch Pro, which boasts a Qwerty-keypad that slides out from underneath for easy thumb typing.
Shipments of the Touch Diamond have far outpaced HTC's previous best seller, the HTC Touch, Cheng said. The Touch was launched last year to compete against the original iPhone.
Retail giant Tesco has revealed that its sales of Android-based mobile phones has surpassed those of Apple's iPhone on its network.
Tesco Mobile, which offers mobile phone services based on the O2 network, said that iPhone sales were ahead of Android handsets before Christmas 2010, the sales figures equalled out in January, with Android surpassing iPhone in February.
The company said that judging by the current situation, Google's Android platform will grow meteorically in 2011. Apple's introduction of the iPhone 5, likely to be in the middle of this year, will no doubt have a significant affect on Android's market share.
Graham Harris, chief executive officer of Tesco Telecoms and Tesco Mobile, said in a statement “As one of the UK's leading operators, these sales are a useful barometer for smartphone trends. There is a lot of choice in the market and as a result consumers are driving healthy competition between rival operating systems.”
Tesco's announcement comes after a recent smartphone study conducted by research firm IDC revealed that shipments of Android based smartphones to western Europe had grown by 1,580 per cent year-on-year.
The IDC predicts that Android will see a compound annual growth rate of 37% between 2010 and 2015 in western Europe.
Great to know. Love Android
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
Any info on a release date?
Luke
Second Quarter of 2011 is the official release period. Any other release date(s) other than from Motorola or Verizon Wireless are just rumors and speculations.
2010??
I know ya ment 2011. My contract is up around Oct.
Luke
Sorry for the typo. I have corrected the year.
Thanks
According to Black Man X, the release is after Passover, which this year is April 19-25.
blackmanx.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/for-the-android-heads-a-wee-bit-of-poem/
This one was posted today:
When Beer flows in the color of envy and the rainbows are all but empty and you bask in the Thunder so bold…
But if it’s another device you seek to reach your Peak, then you may yet have several weeks.
For in the LiTE a new device shall shine, and perhaps that is fine if dual cores you don’t mind…
For Stevie Austin moves like a blur, Unless it stock style you prefer…
But its calmness we shall seek,
And shy away from the Hype-beast
One of the popular rumored release date is April 21st.
Update on Release Dates
Came across this news leak that just hit about an hour or so ago. Not sure about the reliability but Phandroid has been pretty good with news in the past. Thoughts?
www [dot] gizmocrunch [dot] com/mobile/6167-verizon-release-motorola-droid-bionic-x2-incredible-galaxy
I have called Wireless Advocates, 1-888-369-5931 (Costco's Wireless partner). Got the contact information from mynassda on the Droid forum.
Their computer shows that the Bionic will be in Costco stores on May 12th.
http://www.wirelessadvocates.com/_aboutus/aboutus.htm
"Wireless Advocates, LLC. is the exclusive third-party provider of wireless and related products and services in Costco warehouses nationwide. Operating more than 400 stores between Alaska and Puerto Rico, we leverage our experience to create a preferred destination for products people want."
This does confirm the latest leak of a May date.
June 9th is the leaked date. Same day has iphone 5.
Used my fascinating voodoo powers
The "leaked date" of June 9th is clearly an April fools prank. Read the leaked document - iPhone 5 options include 16 or 32 geebez, the bottom of the document recommends CSRs fast track sales for customers by stereotyping them, and characteristics to look for include tightness of their clothes, size of their european shoulder bag, thickness of glass rims, and continued insistence on having a phone with a white bag.
document image available at: farm6 (dot) static (dot) flickr (dot) com/5103/5581093902_79f9d45885.jpg
My contract ends around April 25th. Hopefully its out or coming out by then. i'm excited!
rustedangel said:
The "leaked date" of June 9th is clearly an April fools prank. Read the leaked document - iPhone 5 options include 16 or 32 geebez, the bottom of the document recommends CSRs fast track sales for customers by stereotyping them, and characteristics to look for include tightness of their clothes, size of their european shoulder bag, thickness of glass rims, and continued insistence on having a phone with a white bag.
document image available at: farm6 (dot) static (dot) flickr (dot) com/5103/5581093902_79f9d45885.jpg
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I dont have the link, but do a google on upcoming phones for verizon. The first link that pops up mentions that date. These guys àre a credible source and have been for awhile.
Used my fascinating voodoo powers
Is that story about it being on Amazon Wireless for a few hours for $149 true? Will that be the price with new service / 2yr contact?
It's pissing me off, I want a new phone but if I get the Thundderbolt for $199 now and the Bionic comes out in June for $149, or $200, or even $250... I will be really pissed!!!
my upgrade has been available since Nov 2010...but i've been waiting for this phone...i will conintue to wait...
my fascinate will hold me up till then...
Some bad rumors floating around the net
There are rumors that started yesterday stating the Bionic may be cancelled. Even BlackmanX does not know the current state of things.
Quote from Android Central from BlackmanX
http://forum.androidcentral.com/motorola-droid-bionic/53609-release-date-22.html
Long day is over... I think I understand where this cancelled news is coming from. still cant believe that verizon would be so... misguided, but alot lately has shocked me. I have to confirm with some moto people and some folks on my side.
If so.. guess some folks get collector items to go with their Merge devices... lol
will update accordingly.
__________________
Panda, I speak all os.. I know a lil bit bout how this Cdma/LTE stuff works too...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Latest from BMX suggests the cancellation be be true;
http://blackmanx.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/stevie-austin-where-are-you-or-a-bionic-by-any-other-name/
Sent from my HTC Thunderbolt
New information from The Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110419-711034.html#articleTabs=article
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) said that the Droid Bionic, a 4G smartphone, will launch with Verizon Wireless in the summer.
Motorola pushed back the timing of the launch to incorporate new features into ...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hopefully, this is a retooled release of the Targa as the Bionic.
I would have expected MMI to drop after the announcement hit the news today. Oddly enough the stock came back up for a positive close for the day.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Motorola-Droid-Bionic-Delayed-as-iPhone-5-Looms-229162/
No cancelled but delayed.
I found this to be a very interesting read so I thought I'd share it.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/haydnsh...5-comes-early-and-with-a-hint-of-desperation/
Samsung has announced a preview of the Galaxy S5 on February 24th at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Sort of. Invites have gone out to the press for what Samsung is describing as Unpacked, Episode 1 with a large 5 emblazoned on the invite (twice). All a big tease. Might it backfire?
The announcement has been picked up around the world. A Galaxy launch is a big event. But there is a hint that this time round Samsung is desperate to get a new device out there and to use the attendant publicity to drive sales in a very tight market. Samsung needs this more than we do.
In the middle of last year, not long after the S4 launch I suggested Samsung had peaked in smartphones. The evidence since then has been pretty compelling. Samsung’s sales seem to have stalled more dramatically than Apple’s.
In June 2013 Samsung gave guidance on record profits. By Q4 Bloomberg reported the first drop in profits in 9 quarters.
Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) posted its first profit decline in nine quarters as new Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPhones won over high-end handset buyers and models from cheaper Chinese producers lured budget customers.
It’s clear that the Samsung pricing cascade is running out of steam. You have to go back some years, to the general consumer electronics industry and in particular TVs to see this cascade at work. Remember it?
Launch at a high price/high margin to soak the early adopters, discount to acquire market share; and when that stops working, launch a new generation product. Soon after the S4 was available the price differential in different parts of the world exceeded $300 as they played this cascade out in different markets.
Now Samsung needs sales, not least to support its vast manufacturing capacity. According to Daewo Securities, “Samsung shipped 13 million units of its S4 in the fourth quarter, down from 17 million in the previous three months.” That’s a reduction of 4 million units in the buying season.
Because of its pricing model, Samsung is also in danger of ceding high margin sales to Apple more generally.
There will be novelty in the S5 to try to win margins back, however. Leaks in January suggest Samsung will sport a new UI in the S5, possible powered by Google NOW. The two companies have been working more closely lately and more product integration would be no surprise. Samsung has also been working hard on its branding, despite being caught out manipulating social media reviews of competitors. I covered some of that brand investment here on Forbes.
Yet it is in software and services integration that Samsung still lags. Software has been named a new national priority for Korea, a move reported by The New Yorker, recently. In the software and services arena, in promoting service revenue in place of hardware margins, Samsung is a decade behind Apple. The strain of being hardware first is beginning to tell.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Samsung's suffering the same thing Apple is - Western smartphone markets are approaching saturation which is causing a drop in margins as manufacturers turn to emerging markets where selling price and margin are lower. In quarterly revenue, market share, and margin growth Samsung still outperformed all other Android device manufacturers based on last quarter's earnings. Their revenue was actually up but their earning's were depressed because of lower margins in mobile devices. LG (who gets over half their mobile revenue from dumb phones) and the other Chinese (physically based and selling market) manufacturers showed YOY gains but everyone else is dying including Sony, HTC, and Motorola.
So if articles like you quoted predicting Samsung's death and desperation are true I hope you like Apple and iOS. Because if changing market conditions are going to kill Samsung then they'll be the last to go behind every other brand discussed on XDA.
BarryH_GEG said:
Samsung's suffering the same thing Apple is - Western smartphone markets are approaching saturation which is causing a drop in margins as manufacturers turn to emerging markets where selling price and margin are lower. In quarterly revenue, market share, and margin growth Samsung still outperformed all other Android device manufacturers based on last quarter's earnings. Their revenue was actually up but their earning's were depressed because of lower margins in mobile devices. LG (who gets over half their mobile revenue from dumb phones) and the other Chinese (physically based and selling market) manufacturers showed YOY gains but everyone else is dying including Sony, HTC, and Motorola.
So if articles like you quoted predicting Samsung's death and desperation are true I hope you like Apple and iOS. Because if changing market conditions are going to kill Samsung then they'll be the last to go behind every other brand discussed on XDA.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Quite an intelligent response. I didn't perceive the article as pointing towards the death of Samsung. Samsung obviously isn't going anywhere anytime soon. I'd rather be without a phone than having an Apple product.
Delakit said:
Quite an intelligent response. I didn't perceive the article as pointing towards the death of Samsung. Samsung obviously isn't going anywhere anytime soon. I'd rather be without a phone than having an Apple product.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The is the problem you going to get In an ecosystem with so many competition. Every manufacturer costs raise to compete with each other and in the end becomes a zero sum game for them. Just like sony needing to exit their PC biz, some manufacturers who can't play well in smartphone world will need to exit too.
Only winner here is Google and in some way Apple owning their own ecosystems, Consumers definitely benefit the most with the amount of choices of phones out there to tinker with
Phones are overpriced anyway. I've never seen the actual costs but it's silly.
I think if anyone's in danger Apple are in trouble. They are still overpricing. I know quite a few who have jumped ship from Apple.
Sent from my HTC One using xda app-developers app
Samsung is being force to compete now, the likes of LG has making them a little bit more competitive, which is a good thing since before Samsung was the Android king and the King of smart phone besting out Apple and Window phones. Since the LG G2 was introduce, Samsung customer have been looking toward LG direction, I am one of them and I am glad I picked the G2 over the S4. Let the two giant battle it out, the winner will be the customer.