Motorola ready to shed handset business

Motorola has finally confirmed the rumours – the company is mulling spinning off its mobile unit. The company came out with the news yesterday, saying it “is exploring the structural and strategic realignment of its businesses to better equip its mobile devices business to recapture global market leadership and to enhance shareholder value”.

The handset business stuttered after the success and ultimately saturation of the Razr and Motorola has struggled to come up with something quite as market grabbing as the “thin is in” device ever since and the last quarter topped it off, when sales plummeted 38 percent.

This could be the radical move Moto needs to get its mobile unit back on its feet. The interesting question is though, if the unit is spun off – who will the likely owner be? There’s no immediate name in the frame. CNBC reports that negotiations are already underway with Dell, but that seems a bit of an unlikely union. Aside from the link of Ron Garriques – who left Moto to join Dell early last year – if Dell does have an interest in mobile, it would surely be smart devices, which Motorola has only produced a tiny handful of to date.

Recently Published

Question: When is the only time a traffic jam is good news in the UK?

Answer: When you're sitting in the back of an Uber and you need reliable mobile signal. Boom! Sad, isn't it, dear reader? Travel all around...

Ah yes, an S23 with a BlackBerry Bold Keyboard: Exactly what I (think) I need

I was playing with Midjourney, the AI/photo generation service and I asked it to show me what a Samsung S23 would look like with...

It’s ok, your moon photos aren’t fake, they are just enhanced – quite a bit

Have you taken a photo of the moon recently? I almost did, the other day, when I spotted a fabulous moment here in Dubai....

Don’t move! You’ll jinx it! This looks like a tiny bit of innovation in the mobile world

It has been quite a while since I’ve seen anything in the mobile industry that’s caused me to want to write much. Just look...

The new BlackBerry movie trailer is here

Were you a BlackBerry fan? Of course you were. At some point, almost everyone was. I still remember the days and the joy that...

Airalo: The easy way to roam globally with a data eSIM

Shortly before I began my FinTech & Banking Tour around the GCC, I popped into the Apple AppStore and searched ‘eSim’. I wondered if...