Motorola may drop mobile phones

Motorola Inc . , which has lost mobile-phone market share to all of its major rivals, rose the most in almost four years in New York trading after saying it may bow to shareholder pressure and shed its ...

[oh oh]

here comes more lay off's. Sucks.

[real life]

Can't make it in America?

My first cell phone was a Motorola!

[Common Sense]

My first cell phone was the brick phone from Motorola. Then came the beloved Startac phone that i would still be using if they made it. The Razor was a piece of s---t that dropped calls and could not place calls.It looked good but was widely considered to be junk as cell phones go. Samsung and LG as well as Sanyo make a far superior phone that has better reception and call making ability. Motorola phones dont work anymore!!! Thats why the public is leaving them. Bought two Razors and was astounded at how poorly they handled calls in the middle of Ft, Lauderdale. They need to figure out what makes their phones cr---ap.

[FUBAR]

That's too bad, because Motorola always made the best quality phones. Those Asian phones are cheap, plastic, fragile pieces of crap.

[FUBAR]

PS - I never owned a Razor, but I have heard they are terrible. I always picked the heaviest ones because they seem to hold up best, but I need a quad-band phone. Maybe they should just stop making the Razor and focus on durable phones.

[John]

Motorola should close the Plantation plant. Also, Motorola lost creativity in the the late 80's and never regained it. They need to clean house with their employees and get people that are more creative. I believe Motorola will get bought out by one of the giants such as Nokia, Samsung, or some German company. Their CEO's are stale.

[Will they ever learn]

John wrote:

Motorola should close the Plantation plant. Also, Motorola lost creativity in the the late 80's and never regained it. They need to clean house with their employees and get people that are more creative. I believe Motorola will get bought out by one of the giants such as Nokia, Samsung, or some German company. Their CEO's are stale.

They need to shed their reputation as a terrible company to work for before they can hire talent. The word on the street is that Motorola is not a company you want to work for or even have on your resume. Also, those that remain or survive have been through successive layoffs without any assistance or recognition of the psychological impact this type of environment creates --- even in those who were once known to be creative and resourceful. Is their such a thing as organizational co-dependency? If so, Motorola and its staff would be a prime example.

[Will they ever learn]

Where are the visionaries? Get rid of the bean counter mentality...invest in the future. It will be costly, but the only possible route to recovery...if it is not already too late.

[FLZapped]

John wrote:

Motorola should close the Plantation plant. Also, Motorola lost creativity in the the late 80's and never regained it. They need to clean house with their employees and get people that are more creative.

The problem isn't the employees, it is the management. When you lay off someone with 40 patents to their name, you have a management problem. Zander ran the company completely into the ground, admitted it and gets nearly a 30 million bonus for doiing so. In the meantime, they are executing forensic accounting and asking fewer and fewer employees to do more and more.

[Wizard of Oz]

Moto, click your heels and say to yourselves: Its only a phone......its only a phone.......its only a phone. It shouldn't be too difficult to design and build. After all, its not like an avionics transponder or collision avoidance system. Its only a phone.

My provider, Verizon, cripples half the features you wasted hundreds of man-years to implement anyhow.

Most 'features' y'all put in these handsets is useless to me and only impedes your time to market by needlessly complicating an otherwise simple instrument. You want to implement games, make you a game handset-- don't put that junk on my phone.

Its only a daggone phone! Get with the program.

1) Consolidate design teams in ONE location
2) Do all h/w design and verification at this location
3) Do all s/w design and verification at this location
4) Implement pre-production test at this location
5) Use the same OS in each handset (use a robust OS)

These steps will lead to improved communication, shorter delays in finding and fixing issues, removal of impediments in resolving problems, reduced language barrier problems.

The Razr is a great product. Get this: I dropped it on concrete and naturally, it got nicked up. The silver was scratched off and required replacement. In a couple of weeks the silver coating had reformed over where it was scraped off. There is only one small nick barely visible. No need to replace the plastic cover. I am happy and impressed.

Razr = great phone.

[Sure]

Common Sense wrote:

. Samsung and LG as well as Sanyo make a far superior phone that has better reception and call making ability. Motorola phones dont work anymore!!! Thats why the public is leaving them. Bought two Razors and was astounded at how poorly they handled calls in the middle of Ft, Lauderdale. They need to figure out what makes their phones cr---ap.

The problems with reception and dropped calls has nothing to do with the quality of the phones. Those issues have to do with base station placement and how much coverage the towers provide the mobile phone in any given area. Motorola makes the phones. The carriers are the ones that you should be looking at for dropped calls and reception issues.

If the Plantation facility were to close, it would be a tremendous blow to Broward's economy. Remember what happened in Boca Raton when IBM left.

[ThrownOverboard]

Why is it when a company flounders, first sentiment is to fire the employees?
The are the ones producing the product! Stop selling mobile phones and half the business is gone!

What are you going to sell then? Brilliant decision making done by executives.
The world is looking at global communications and technology to grease the wheels of each countries economy.

[Alexander Graham Bell]

Come her Watson has been replaced by Come
here Fung Yung Lee Wu. Phones are Made in China.
The Razr had it's moment in the sun but was not improved. I found it's camera to be poor and it's screen too dark in poor light. The market has spoken

[OMG]

Broward County better realize that Motorola will be gone frm here in 18-24 months, tops. Its senior management team has consistently proven that you can't fire your way to profitability. All the decent management and engineering talent has been systemetically stripped away over the past 10 years, and has really accelerated the last 3 or 4 years. Once Sprint mismanaged its merge with Nextel, Plantation was finished. All over but the shouting. And the real crime is that the business that brought Motorola to Plantation, the police radio business, has been the reliable cash generator for the corporation for years, and its reward will be to shut down what's left of the design effort here, and then back to IL. Manufacturing left long, long ago. BTW, is 2500 employees still an accurate count? Seems that's off by a good 1000.

[FLAGRL]

I have had the Razr for a couple of years now and have had absolutely no problems with it. Perhaps you are having trouble with your server. Mine is T-Mobile and I am very happy with its service.

[Motorola consumer]

I have owned cellular phones for over 23 years. I started when they phones were large bag phones and analog technology. I have owned many phones over the years and have gone through all the phone carriers. I have owned Sanyo, Samsung, and others. Motorola is absolutely the best product however, they are also the most expensive. I presently own the IC 902 and find it absolutely phenominal. My wife owned a cheap Jap model and it sucked. I gave her my old IC 502 and it works perfectly. Both are Motorola. This is just one more step into forcing consumers to accept cheap assss overseas products. We cannot compete when you are paying 499.00 for a phone like my IC 902 and Samsung is selling a phone with the same features for 75 percent cheaper.

[Common Sense]

Sure wrote:

<quoted text>
The problems with reception and dropped calls has nothing to do with the quality of the phones. Those issues have to do with base station placement and how much coverage the towers provide the mobile phone in any given area. Motorola makes the phones. The carriers are the ones that you should be looking at for dropped calls and reception issues.
If the Plantation facility were to close, it would be a tremendous blow to Broward's economy. Remember what happened in Boca Raton when IBM left.

Then explain to me how a razor vs. a samsung using the same carriers namely Sprint and Verizon both perform differently in the same area of town. The Samsung phone gets a call out every time and the Razor shows no signal. This occurs with both Sprint and Verizon throughout Broward and Palm Beach county.

Motorola builds a sh--ty phone admit it!! Ask the sales people at any Sprint store or any Verizon store which phones get the best signals and reception and they all say the same thing. They love Samsung ,LG and Sanyo. Its just the way it is.I bought two razors and could not believe how they didnt work anywhere!! Razors are garbage.

[Eliot]

If Motorola phones are so good then why is Nokia kicking their as-sses?
Because there is little demand for the junk Motorola makes these days. All of the Jap phones work better and have better ease of use in their menus and operating systems. Motorola needs to go buy some Jap phones ,open them up and learn a few things about engineering cell phones. They are losing money on cell phones for a reason. They stink and the consumer knows it.

[Samuel]

FUBAR wrote:

PS - I never owned a Razor, but I have heard they are terrible. I always picked the heaviest ones because they seem to hold up best, but I need a quad-band phone. Maybe they should just stop making the Razor and focus on durable phones.

RAZOR PHONES ARE CR---AP!!!!!!!!!!

[BeGeezus]

I agree with the poster about the startac. It was the best product they ever made. Then they just started loading these phones with crap people over 30 could care less about. I don't need a camera, mp3, data organizer phone. I need a phone that makes and receives calls, with a limited number of reliable functions. Especially a damn camera that I need additional software or a memory card to retrieve pictures, not included in the $500+ prices they charge for the damn things. They really don't need to hire anyone smarter than a third grader, just someone with common sense. Nokia is far and away a better product. Honestly, the brick phone was a better product that the razr. Six months after I owned a razr and had problems, the ATT rep looked at me like, that phone is over two generations old. I hope the earth swallows motorola whole.