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This title: "Motorola joins Microsoft in attack on Nokia" is not our invention but a quote(below) from a newspaper ("Billings Gazette")!Apparently Ed Zander from Motorola and Pieter Knook from Microsoft are excited about the new Motorola MPx220 smartphone:
It is like cutting the wires of the PC once and for all,With the MPx 220 we will definitely solve the mobility issue."
"The drawback to smartphones currently on the market is that they are generally bought as stand-alone devices and are hard to synchronise with the desktop," said Knook.
Quote:
| LONDON, England - Microsoft and giant U.S. phonemaker Motorola have joined forces to try to wrest the smartphone market - the lucrative business end of the mobile sector - from their European competitor Nokia.
The Business has learned that Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer and Motorola's new boss Ed Zander will spearhead their attack with a new generation of phones capable of putting the Microsoft desktop on the mobile screen.
"We see a coming together of IT and telephony crystallised by Ed Zander's appointment, which marks a significant deepening of the relationship between Microsoft and Motor-ola," said Pieter Knook, senior vice-president Microsoft Mobile.
The new generation of MPx phones enable users to synchronise Microsoft e-mail, address book and other desktop functions. The devices are being trialled by Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM) in Brazil where is to be jointly marketed by Microsoft, Motorola and TIM.
"It is like cutting the wires of the PC once and for all," said Mario Cesar de Arujo, chairman of TIM Brasil. "With the MPx 220 we will definitely solve the mobility issue."
Microsoft and Motorola hope the new phones will enable them to challenge the lead Nokia has established in smartphones using the operating system Symbian.
Symbian was developed for handheld devices and many software developers and users prefer it to Microsoft's mobile software, a scaled-down version of the more cumbersome Windows operating system. But Microsoft believes that, with Motorola's help, it can offer business a way of synchronising its mobile communications with its PC network.
"The drawback to smartphones currently on the market is that they are generally bought as stand-alone devices and are hard to synchronise with the desktop," said Knook. MPx phones are also aimed at taking market share from portable Blackberry e-mail devices.
Zander became the first outsider to run Motorola in its 75-year history when he became chief executive earlier this year. His former boss, the flamboyant head of US computing giant Sun Microsystems Scott McNealy once paid him the industry's highest backhanded compliment by saying Zander was "crazier than me".
Zander's initiative is seen as his first big challenge to Nokia head Jorma Ollila's dominance of the global mobile market. |
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Posted: 2004-10-29 02:36
