Want a Google-influenced Motorola phone? Keep waiting (via the Verge)

Ry

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Want a Google-influenced Motorola phone? Keep waiting

On Google's Q3 2012 earnings call today, CFO Patrick Pichette talked briefly about Motorola Mobility's performance about half a year into its acquisition:

"Look, we're really pleased with Motorola's progress in its first 150 days. As indicated in our public filings, our team has made a lot of operational changes, we harmonized and narrowed the product portfolio, [undertook] streamlining of software operations, and we scaled back the markets in which we operate. But that said, we're just at the beginning of the Motorola-Google story, and we should expect, as I mentioned before, results from this segment to be quite variable for quite a while yet."

Remember that we inherited an entire product pipeline where hardware business cycles are typically 12 to 18 months.
In other words, Pichette is warning that we can expect hardware from Motorola without design pressure from Mountain View for at least another half a year to a full year from now ? and it could even be construed as a swipe at the desirability (and, in turn, the profitability) of the pre-Google products currently in Motorola's pipeline. In the short term, this would appear to be Verizon's vision for Motorola more than Google's.
 

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i have not owned a Motorola smartphone and the Razr series look great. Iy will be interesting to see what devices are released in the coming months with deep Google influence.
 

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