Tag archive: Zander

Although Motorola rode a two-year high-profile success with its sleek RAZR phone, the company has dropped to third place among mobile phone makers, and turned in doleful financials for the first half of 2007—and although the third quarter wasn't to bad, it still represented a 94 percent drop in profits. Today, however, Motorola's stock buoyed up a bit: CEO Ed Zander announced he would be stepping down January 1, to be… Read More

At an event in New York City today, Motorola took the wraps off its new collection of mobile devices, including a new version of its highly successful RAZR phone, a new version of its ROKR music phone, an updated version of its Windows Mobile-based Q smartphone, and a new self-proclaimed "media monster," the Moto Z8 phone. "This focused new product portfolio further advances Motorola's goal of bringing the ultimate… Read More

Speaking at the Software 2007 conference in Silicon Valley, Motorola CEO Ed Zander revealed that his company plans to unveil a new mobile phone capable of playing back full-motion, full-length motion pictures stored on SD cards. Zander described the phone as a “media monster,” and said the company plans to show the product next week. According to Zander's remarks, the new phone will be capable of playing 30… Read More

News.com is reporting that Motorola CEO Ed Zander threw out the idea that Apple could be introducing a smart phone sometime in the near future. The remark was made yesterday at a Technology Review conference. Zander was quoted sometime last week as attacking the Apple iPod nano saying "Screw the nano. What the hell does the nano do? Who listens to 1,000 songs?” Although Zander claims he was taken out of context, the media has taken… Read More

“Since the Razr V3 hit store shelves in November, Motorola has shipped an estimated 750,000 of the $500 phones — three times more than Zander initially expected. And BusinessWeek has learned that the company is hard at work on a whole family of Razr-like phones in various shapes and colors — including the Sliver, a candy-bar-shaped Razr — to be announced later this year. “ Read more at BusinessWeek