Motorola to stick to its handset business
By Dusan Belic on Monday, February 18th, 2008 at 6:31 AM PST In Mobile World Congress 2008, Motorola
It’s hard to argue against activist investor Carl Icahn, who owns a 5% of Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and who says breaking up the company could unlock more value for shareholders, but the fact stays that the American handset maker is pretty much the dominant player in the U.S. handset market. So personally I don’t believe they should just dump it or sell it to someone else (Dell?).
“Motorola is fully committed to the mobile devices business and I am fully committed to mobile devices,” Chief Executive Greg Brown said at a reception at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Again, we do want to see Moto re-emerging as a top player. You folks now co-own UIQ, get busy and show us some cool multimedia devices like ASAP. Will please help? 
[Via: Reuters]
UIQ still has big advantage from S60 – touch input that get important since iPhone promote it.
I think motorola should stick to the mobile device unit, the first phone I ever owned was a motorola star tach. It was revolutionary and stylis at the time. Motorola needs to bring headsets to market faster. The z10 is for all puposes a great phone, but where is it, where is the z12. They think that by keeping the phones a secret, that it will creat more demand, no. Samsung comes out with a new phone almost evey week. They will be coming out with a phone in the next few weeks that will surpass the z10.Moto has to many UI platforms find one that works and stick to it. I dont want to see moto in some foriegn companies hand. If they sell the unit sell it to an American company. If they sell it to a foreign company I will never buy a motorola headset again no matter how good it is. I only buy american, and from Motorola.