Posted by tranced
Motorola is likely to fall to fifth place in world cellphone marketshare based on shipment estimates allegedly leaked from companies involved in making the phones in Taiwan. They now predict that the American phone creator will have shipped a relatively low 22 million to 23 million phones in its spring quarter. The number would drop Motorola from fourth to fifth place and give it just 7.3 percent of the market while Sony Ericsson would take over the new spot, climbing to exactly eight percent.
Nokia, Samsung, and LG are believed to retain control of the top three spots, holding 40 percent, 18 percent, and 9.3 percent respectively.
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Posted by WhiteEye
hope ZN5 and E8 will save their future.
Posted by Marly
I also hope so, it would be very sad to see a company disappear from the mobile phone market, which was already manufacturing mobile communication devices (for the military, fire brigade, police, etc ), when companies like Samsung and LG probably didn't even exist.
Posted by c96sthl
more ironic....big names like nokia/ motorola/ sonyericsson also using parts made by samsung and samsung/ LG got phone using symbian or ericsson mobile platform yet they are at the top ranking under nokia
it shows they have a good marketing and planning strategy while the old boy living in their legacy failed to reinvent themselve.
what they need is some daring marketing mastermind...but i only see if steve jobs interested on Motorola...else it just going to be unavoided to see the company continue to slip even it have engineers they have produced iconic stuff many many years back.
Posted by djin
i think it could be possible for microsoft to buy out this company, n give it a boost perhaps? by doing so their windows mobile might also get popular.
Posted by Lunion
Ctrl Alt Delete buttons just wouldn't look right on phones.
Posted by c96sthl
my laptop love to hang after i put it into stand by or hiibernation mode...no Ctrl/Alt/ Del to help...i need to pull the battery out.
so this is the solution for microsoft based stuff hahahaaha.
blue will be the normal standby color.
Posted by mazi
I am really happy cause dont like old phones from Moto
...as far as i Know they only have a Razr series in succesful line and others phones seem outdate ...they countinue this strategy very very long and after down in 5th place decide to go for ZN5!!
well done MOTO!!
[ This Message was edited by: mazi on 2008-07-12 19:34 ]
Posted by @ftyk
motorola should call it a day.
Posted by shelly58
On 2008-07-12 22:35:52, @ftyk wrote:
motorola should call it a day.
well i for one dont agree, yes in the past moto phones have been a nightmare as regards freezing, switching off on there own accord, major software problems etc...in fact i swore i'd never buy another moto phone again!.....until the ROKR E8 which i got today
and changed my opinion instantly! to download a full album in under a minute is just flipping great! and sooooo easy with windows media player, tonight i downloaded 15 albums and so fast with no messing about, sound quality is very good in fact better than some of the walkman phones ive had! 10/10 for motorola....just hope they can keep it up and get up there like they use to be!
Posted by Brightspark
On 2008-07-13 02:31:36, shelly58 wrote:
On 2008-07-12 22:35:52, @ftyk wrote:
motorola should call it a day.
sound quality is very good in fact better than some of the walkman phones ive had! 10/10 for motorola....just hope they can keep it up and get up there like they use to be!
"some of them"? it trounces ALL of the walkmans by miles in terms of sound quality. if its on a par with the samsung i450, none of the walkmans stand a chance. walkmans have the most naff sounding audio quality i've ever heard. i quote:
Secondly, the audio quality is amazingly high. It's on par with such music phones as Samsung i450, Nokia 5310, N81. More like the i450 model, not as loud as Nokias, but a bit more refined and the basses are slightly better. The limited sound volume is probably the only drawback of E8,
.................
After listening for some time a SonyEricsson can be more or less verifiably distinguished from the rest of contestants for an inferior audio quality, the difference from the leaders in this case can be told with a little effort.
http://www.smape.com/en/reviews/motorola/Motorola_E8-rev.html#16
[ This Message was edited by: Brightspark on 2008-07-13 06:11 ]
Posted by se_dude
Guys...please take some time out and check the RMAA ratings of SE phones. they are much better than that of the nokia's and just a little behind the market leaders in samsung. The W980 has even been comared to the ipod.
Posted by Janbobejan
Another one bites the dust . . .
Go SAMSUNG Go
Posted by QVGA
On 2008-07-13 08:01:27, se_dude wrote:
Guys...please take some time out and check the RMAA ratings of SE phones. they are much better than that of the nokia's and just a little behind the market leaders in samsung. The W980 has even been comared to the ipod.
yes yes we know you've been saying this same thing in every thread you can find but repeating it over and over again wont make it true