{"id":202909,"date":"2010-01-20T09:55:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T14:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=12328"},"modified":"2010-01-20T09:55:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T14:55:29","slug":"despite-windows-mobile-7-motorola-is-planning-no-wm-smartphones-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/202909","title":{"rendered":"Despite Windows Mobile 7, Motorola is planning no WM smartphones in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D12328\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D12328\" height=\"61\" width=\"51\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/motorolaWMbreakup.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"motorolaWMbreakup\" border=\"0\" alt=\"motorolaWMbreakup\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/motorolaWMbreakup_thumb.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Motorola and Windows Mobile has had a stormy on again, off again relationship in the last 12 months, but until now we had all believed <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?tag=windows-mobile-7\" >Windows Mobile 7<\/a>, like a baby had just to prevent a divorce, <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=1517\" >would fix everything<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately it appears that was overly optimistic.&#160; CNET Asia spoke to&#160; Spiros Nikolakopoulos, vice president and general manager for Asia Pacific and International Distribution for Motorola&#8217;s Mobile Devices business, to find out more about the company&#8217;s plans.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the smartphones Motorola intended to release in 2010, Spiros said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>There will be between 20 and 30 smartphones globally and, at this moment, <strong>all of them will run Android.<\/strong> Naturally, not all will be available everywhere as it depends on the company&#8217;s partnership with the various telco operators in each country. For non-smartphone models, they will run either Brew or the Motorola&#8217;s own operating system.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With Windows Mobile 7 handsets strongly expected to arrive this year, it appears clear Motorola will not be a launch partner, and after having placed all bets on Android, may never make a Windows Mobile handset again.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the company is only aiming for 5% of the global handset market, and clearly see a role of complete irrelevance for itself soon.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck Motorola.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/asia.cnet.com\/reviews\/mobilephones\/0,39050603,62060661,00.htm\" >here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D12328&amp;linkname=Despite%20Windows%20Mobile%207%2C%20Motorola%20is%20planning%20no%20WM%20smartphones%20in%202010\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\/Bookmark\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorola and Windows Mobile has had a stormy on again, off again relationship in the last 12 months, but until now we had all believed Windows Mobile 7, like a baby had just to prevent a divorce, would fix everything. Unfortunately it appears that was overly optimistic.&#160; CNET Asia spoke to&#160; Spiros Nikolakopoulos, vice president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}