Motorola has completed its separation into two independent companies called Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility Holdings. Led by CEO Greg Brown, Motorola Solutions said Tuesday it will focus on delivering business communications offerings for commercial enterprises and governments throughout the world.
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Motorola Mobility Holdings, which consists of the former mobile-device and home-gear businesses of parent company Motorola, began trading Tuesday morning as an independent company on the New York Stock Exchange. We are well-positioned to build on the strong momentum we have in smartphones and end-to-end video solutions — and to take advantage of opportunities resulting from the convergence of media, mobility, computing and the Internet, said Motorola Mobility Holdings CEO Sanjay Jha.
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Steering a New Course
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The spin-off of Motorola Mobility Holdings isn’t expected to have much, if any, impact on the new wireless company’s relationships with suppliers, distributors and enterprise buyers, according to industry observers.
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This has been in the works for so long that I don’t expect the official split, in and of itself, to impact the new company’s relationship with enterprises, noted Lisa Pierce, an independent wireless analyst at the Strategic Networks Group. Only new functions, new products, [and] new alliances can do that.
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When Jha first joined Motorola in 2008, he radically changed the company’s mobility direction by championing Google’s fledgling Android operating system, a decision that has borne fruit. Tuesday’s spin-off gives him yet another opportunity to steer a new course in the delivery of next-generation handsets and other wireless offerings.
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It will be interesting to see which market segments the mobile division elects to focus on, Pierce said. Between [the Consumer Electronics Show] and CTIA (The Wireless Association), I’m sure we won’t have long to wait!
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One product area sure to be on Jha’s radar screen is the tablet space — especially in the U.S., where the…