Motorola has been struggling for some time now in the mobile phone industry as shown by its poor sales figures throughout 2007.
News is now beginning to circle that it could be looking to ditch it's mobile phone products altogether and focus on its other fields.
It's a fall from grace for an American giant who had amazing success with the Motorola RAZR but has fell behind the leading pack significantly since with Nokia, Sony Ericsson, LG and Samsung all making huge strides, not to mention the emergence of Apple.
Many consumers just feel that Motorola have not added anything new to their recipe book and follow fashionable trends well enough. The software on their phones not being quite as innovative as its main rivals.
Whatever happens Motorola needs a serious shake up in the Mobile Phone department after it lost $1.2 billion in 2007. Q4 of 2007 showed Motorola sold 40.9 million handsets while giant Nokia sold 133.5 million.
Motorola's share price rose by 10% at the news it could spin off or sell it's company.
Tricky times lie ahead but Motorola is not all doom and gloom. A revamped line up and re-branding may go a long way to turning consumers but is it too late?
2:26 pm
seems to have got worse for motorola, just read this.
"Motorola has reported handset sales of $3.3 billion for the quarter ended March, down 39 percent on the same period last year"