October 30, 2009
Written by Gadget Gurus
Hot on the heels of announcing the high-end Droid for Verizon, Motorola has just posted its Q3 2009 financial results. While its Enterprise Mobility Solutions and Home and Networks Mobility units reported operating earnings of $306 million and $199 million respectively, Moto’s Mobile Devices unit is still bleeding money, ending the third quarter with an operating loss of $183 million.
13.6 million Motorola phones were shipped in Q3 2009, totalizing sales of $1.7 billion. Since Sony Ericsson reported it sold 14.1 million phones in the third quarter, Motorola is probably the world’s fifth handset maker at the moment, with an estimated global market share of 4.7%.
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Sprint announced quite a few interesting phones lately, including the Palm Pixi, Samsung Instinct HD, Samsung Intrepid, Samsung Moment and HTC Hero. Well, the third largest US carrier prepares even more surprises for 2010. According to GearLog, Sprint executive David Owens has just unveiled some of the carrier’s plans for next year.
Reportedly, Sprint plans to launch WiMax phones, plus lots of HTC and BlackBerry smartphones in 2010 – with the mention that the HTC ones will run Android and some BlackBerries will feature Wi-Fi. Speaking of Android, Sprint says that handsets using Google’s OS “will get less expensive” as soon as more such handsets are released. Next year, the carrier might launch hybrid CDMA/GSM Android phones, and even an “Android phone with a built-in MiFi-type router.”
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So it appears the Motorola Droid is just the beginning of the company’s rebirth back into mobile phone prosperity, as indicated by a statement by CEO Sanjay Jha during the press announcement of the Droid yesterday. At first Sanjay mentioned the number of new smartphones would be in “multiple tens”, before clarifying that at least 20 would be released.
This seems to be a rather good indication that Motorola is back on the right track, and is ready to pull some hefty competition on everyone else. So here’s the thing: given Motorola’s dumping of virtually every OS but Android, we’re wondering how many of these 20+ smartphones will be Android and how many will be WinMo. We know Moto isn’t interested in 6.5 but most likely is waiting for 7 to come out; will it be a 50/50 split between WM7 and Android?
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USB Fotobox Plus comes in the form of a USB dongle, but allows you to have quick and easy creation of slideshows of your digital photos and videos. The little device has one end is a USB connector to be connected to your computer’s USB port and the other end takes an SD memory card that has your digital photos or videos on it.
There isn’t a need for any software installation on your computer. The device will automatically pop up a software which allows you to create slideshows, add fun themes and music background to your digital photos or videos, and then share them on Facebook or YouTube. It can even output the slideshows in iPod format.
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