With Moto selling over half of its Co. what now.

[CSI Guy]

With Motorola selling off more than half of its company where does that leave us poor little guys that just want great cell phones?

 

[ceriem]

Yea, what is this? I don't want Nokia to be responsible for future updates on my X or anything. I am really curious to see what this means for Droid owners, because this is a little worrying in terms of what we can expect from the manufacturer down the road.

Edit: Link for those who are clueless lol http://www.marketwatch.com/story/no...-assets-for-12-bln-2010-07-19?dist=beforebell

 

[katrina2475]

I saw this over the weekend and wondered the same thing. I've never had a Nokia so I have no idea how they are for support.

 

[jdbower]

It's not handsets, it's base stations. Now they can concentrate on phones instead of back end stuff.

 

[DroidRage79]

story I read said they were selling off a $1.2 billion mobile technology division...they have a market cap of $17 bil, so I doubt this was a large part of the company

 

[katrina2475]

It's not handsets, it's base stations. Now they can concentrate on phones instead of back end stuff.

Well that's good. I didn't read the whole article.

 

[ottscay]

The linked article says that the phone division was split from the wireless networking business earlier in the year, and it's the latter than was sold to Nokia. So this won't impact us at all.

 

[largeselection]

Yea they are selling the networking business. That's like towers and such. They are retaining iden tech (nextel bleeping tech). Part of the reason they are selling is to increase their cash so they can support their mobile handset business.

 

[Cory Streater]

Which could only be good news for us

 

[CarbonOak]

Perfect, then we get more focused support on mobile phones

 

[ceriem]

Yea I didn't really think it'd be effecting us. No way moto would sell off its handset stuff right after it launches the X and is about to launch the Droid 2