Wednesday 29 October 2008

Motorola to ditch Symbian: focus on Android    [ 29-10-2008 21:47 ]

Author: Irina Turina   Source: unwiredview     Translation by: Administrator     

It seems Motorola really are focusing a lot on Google's open source Android Operating System, first, upping the number of people on their Android team, developing a social networking-based handset, running Android, and, now, it's said the company is to focus on three core platforms: Windows Mobile for business handsets, their own proprietary P2k Operating System, for low-end handsets, and, Google's Android OS will be the core focus of the three Operating System. These changes come under the recently appointed CEO Sanjay Jha, in a bid to shake up their handset division. This means Motorola will be working on exsisting Operating Systems no longer, like Symbian, meaning yet more lay-offs for the company. These changes may be announced during the company's earnings conference call tomorrow.

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LG to shift focus from high-end to low-end handsets    [ 29-10-2008 20:04 ]

Author: Serge Novikov   Source: intomobile     Translation by: Administrator     

It's being reported that LG are to be changing their handset strategy, shifting from focusing on high-end handsets, to low-end handsets, in the $100-150 price barrier instead. This could be because LG want to shift focus on markets where they don't have as much of a stronghold, as they do on markets where their higher-end handsets, like the Secret and Viewty, do.

Another reason could be due to the fact that, in these times, financil crisises are rife, and their lower-end handsets are sure to be snapped up by hard-up consumers. Having sold around 32 million handsets, globally, in Q2, and 3, of this year, LG hope to shift 100 million, by year's end, and, their lower-priced handsets could play a key role in this.

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