Project PDA

Motorola continues its descent in the third quarter of 2008 continued. Between July and September reached the struggling U.S. manufacturer with a turnover of 7.48 billion U.S. dollars, converted 5.732 trillion euros. Compared to the same period last year, is a minus to 1331 billion U.S. dollars. The decline had an impact on the net profit from the year-on-year to 457 million U.S. dollars and decreased the end of the third quarter as a loss of 397 million U.S. dollars has been expelled.

The cellular mobile devices division was instrumental in the weak development. The revenue broke compared to the third quarter of 2007 increased by 31 percent to 3.1 billion U.S. dollars to the operating loss amounted to 840 million U.S. dollars. The reason was, as in previous quarters declining sales figures: Motorola sold 25.4 million devices worldwide and fell behind Nokia (117.8 million), Samsung (51.8 million) and Sony Ericsson (25.7 million) back. Only against LG Electronics (23 million) could just say Motorola. According brought Motorola from July to September 16 new models on the market, only three of them support UMTS.

The Department of Home and Networks Mobility has developed friendly. Although sales declined by 1 percent to 2.4 billion U.S. dollars back, the highest annual profit climbed by 65 percent in favor to 263 million U.S. dollars. Also positive was the business for the Enterprise Mobility Solutions division. Whose sales rose 4 percent to 2 billion U.S. dollars, the profits rose as much as 23 percent to 403 million U.S. dollars to.

For Motorola looks very bad from it. The portfolio is weak and innovations are not in sight. The speculation about a Motorola phone with Android OS arouse while interest in the smartphone community, the sales figures of the current models but not inspire. It will also prove whether Motorola still a future in the mobile phone business.