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Motorola CEO Zander to step down

News Motorola has been having a tough time of late - and has failed to return to the kind of form it enjoyed back in 2005 when its Razr phone took the market by storm. But there has been no new Razr success story and Motorola has slipped to number three...

Tags: motorola, razr, zander, president

[30 Nov 2007]

Charles Dunstone

AS Profile Always setting the agenda for shoppers on what the must-have handsets will be, Carphone Warehouse helped revitalise Motorola when it exclusively offered the Razr flip phone in pink two Christmases ago.

[12 Oct 2007]

Motorola shoots for video-encoding company

News The Razr maker said Modulus will complement its recent acquisitions of Broadbus, Kreatel, Netopia and Tut Systems. Motorola will soon add to its line-up of infrastructure products it can offer network service providers.

Tags: modulus video, tv, motorola

[18 May 2007]

Can smart phones kill the PC?

News Motorola, which heightened its brand recognition among consumers with its popular thin phone, the Razr, is aiming to increase its presence in the enterprise market. PC-like features are being ported over to mobile phones with increasing frequency...

Tags: motorola, smart phone

[10 May 2007]

Upwardly Mobile: How the iPhone changed the world

Comment It took the Razr two years to reach 10 million in a similar period so it's not an impossible target. The Razr even entered the market at a similar price point and didn't have the same high-end features and functionality the iPhone boasts.

Tags: iphone, upwardly mobile, at&t, apple

[12 Mar 2007]

Dell snaffles Motorola exec

News Under Garriques' leadership, Motorola introduced a number of handsets that were hits with consumers, such as the popular Razr. Dell has hired Motorola's Ron Garriques to run the company's entire consumer business.

Tags: garriques, motorola, dell

[19 Feb 2007]

Photos: The top 10 smart mobile devices

Photo The Q is Moto's attempt at Razr-ing the smart phone and looks are most definitely its main selling point.Based squarely on the 'thin is in', the Q wins a beauty contest as the skinniest Qwerty device, but it's no size 0 bimbo.

Tags: hp, linux, sony ericsson, nokia

[09 Nov 2006]

Mobile makers not enjoying record sales

News It said during its conference call that it will expand the popular Razr family. Mobile phone makers are on track to ship their billionth handset by the end of 2006 but the record sales aren't translating into big profits for the top manufacturers.

Tags: mobile, motorola, nokia

[20 Oct 2006]

Photos: How the table turned techie

Photo Opting for a thin client will affect laptop design, the company believes - leading them to follow mobiles into the Razr-thin territory. HP has unveiled its vision of the next generation of gadgets, all connected to a personal hub.

Tags: table, shelf, wallet, laptop

[09 Oct 2006]

BlackBerry gets out of the boardroom with Pearl

News The device has also, like so many others, taken a lead from the Motorola Razr and gone thin and light, weighing in at just over three ounces and measuring roughly half an inch deep. RIM has officially confirmed what many in the industry had been...

Tags: pearl, blackberry, rim

[07 Sep 2006]

Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Ed Zander

News Zander presided over the resurgence of the company with the iconic Razr, often copied, never outsold. And if the super slim phone is what Zander is best known for, in the last year he hasn't been slow to capitalise on the heritage, launching the...

Tags: motorola, ed zander, where are they now, agenda setters

[05 Sep 2006]

Is the 'dumb blonde' phone here to stay?

Comment Remember the first wafer-thin, any-colour-as-long-as-it's-black Razr? And with the Razr still shifting, other manufacturers are racing to make devices shinier, tinier and all the more saliva-inducing.

Tags: form, functionality, chocolate, razr

[07 Aug 2006]

No let up in smart phone frenzy

News Motorola was able to beat RIM for the first time after shifting more than one million units in China, based on the Linux operating system, as well as the first sales of its Q smart phone, a Razr-inspired take on the BlackBerry, Treo et al.

Tags: smart phones, canalys

[26 Jul 2006]

Worlds Thinnest Cell Phone Unveiled

whitepaper There is thin - Motorola's hip 14.5 mm RAZR and 11 mm SLVR - and then there's super thin, VK's 8.8 mm VK2010 and VK2100 mobile handsets. KTF Technologies introduced the slimmest cell phone of all, the remarkably thin 7.9 millimeter EV-K100, which...

Tags: gsm, phone, ev, embedded

[30 Jun 2006]

Nokia sets legal dogs on Chinese copycats

News Motorola shut down production of a Korean copycat Razr in May. Nokia is suing two Chinese handset makers which it alleges are making copycat devices. Nokia filed the suit against two Shenzen-based companies, Shenzhen Telsda Mobile Communication...

Tags: copycat, china, nokia

[29 Jun 2006]

Photos: A peek inside BT's assault on the digital home

Photos: A peek inside BT's assault on the digital home

Photo One, the Razr V3x, can be seen here. BT has taken the wraps off the latest lot of gadgets that it hopes will take off in the digital home. This A4-sized device is the BT 'home hub'. It's essentially a wi-fi router but it links up to a number of BT...

Tags: home hub, videophone, digital home, home

[21 Jun 2006]

Motorola cuts off Razr copycat

News Motorola has won a court case against a Korean handset manufacturer whose devices bore a little too striking a resemblance to the iconic Razr. KBT, which sold the Razr-alikes in Asia, has agreed to stop manufacturing the devices after Motorola...

Tags: kbt, motorola

[11 May 2006]

Global mobiles: Market charges into 2006

News Motorola posted a 60.6 per cent gain for the quarter, boosted by its new Razr models, which have continued to propel sales. Despite a slight seasonal decline, worldwide shipments of mobile phones rose 26 per cent in the first quarter of 2006...

Tags: mobile market, mobile

[21 Apr 2006]

3GSM: All the news and views

News Motorola takes Razr to its handset range The 3GSM World Congress 2006 is underway in Barcelona and silicon.com is on location, bringing you the latest announcements and happenings from sunny Spain all week long.

[15 Feb 2006]

Motorola takes Razr to its handset range

News Hints as to how it will reinvent the six main mobile phone form factors after the success of its slimline Razr handset have topped a busy week of announcements for Motorola at the 3GSM show in Barcelona.

Tags: razr, motorola

[15 Feb 2006]

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