Will Motorola veer away from Windows Mobile?

By Jacqueline Emigh | Published February 2, 2009, 12:24 PM

Motorola's Q 9c smart phone running Windows Mobile 6.0In the face of a gloomy financial report expected on Tuesday, some analysts are voicing concerns that Motorola's previously announced strategy of focusing more on high-end phones can remain viable. Last fall, then recently appointed Co-Chief Executive Sanjay Jha rolled out a company restructuring that cut Motorola's number of supported smartphone platforms to two: Microsoft's Windows Mobile and Google's Android.

But as recently reported in Betanews, Motorola recently added 70 workers at its Windows Mobile unit in Plantation, FL to a tally of 4,000 job cuts announced earlier in January. Pink slips also went out in January to long-time Mobile Devices vice presidents Yvonne Verse and Tracey Koziol, according to a report today in The Wall Street Journal, which cited "people familiar with the situation."

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Oh man, the idea of a new Q with Android? Where do I sign?

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It doesn't surprise me that Motorola is cutting it's workers from the WM unit. I bought a MOTO Q9c in May '08. I love the idea of it, but in practice it sucks! I knew WM would be slow but this was ridiculous. In addition I had the handheld replaced 3 times. I finally gave in and got a Crackberry.

-Matt

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