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Filed under: Motorola

at this time that the books have been cooked to a delicious golden brown, Motorola has revealed its third quarter earnings today — and for consumers and shareholders alike, the news isn’t particularly awesome. First off, they’ve lost $397 million in the quarter, compared with $40 million in net earnings (black ink, not red) in the same quarter a year ago. Secondly, while they’ve declare today that they plan to develop a full range of Android-powered handsets in 2009, they’re not coming quickly; they’re expected in the second half of the year at the earliest, and when you factor in the inevitable delays, that could realistically mean 2010 for some of the models. What’s more, they’ve declare a belt-tightening plan to cut $800 million in 2009 expenditures, which will inevitably lead to some morale problems out in Schaumburg (for those who are still employed). Finally — and we’re not sure if this is ultimately good or bad news — co-CEO Sanjay Jha has decided to hold off on selling the handset division until some time after the third quarter of 2009 due to the “macro-economic environment,” which we think is code for “we couldn’t give it away right at this time.” Keep fightin’, Moto.

Motorola loses a cool $397M in Q3, delays handset division spinoff originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tags: Bad News, Black Ink, Ceo, Consumers, Economic Environment, Engadget Mobile, Expenditures, Handsets, Moto, Motorola, Nbsp, Q3, Quarter Earnings, Sanjay Jha, Schaumburg, Second Half, Shareholders, Spinoff

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Sprint, Windows Mobile, EV-DO, CDMA

Bad news, Sprint users. That HTC Touch Pro you’ve probably been waiting for won’t be ready for your soft, delicate hands on Sunday. According to an undisclosed contact at the carrier, the outfit is expected to “slightly delay [the] launch of the Touch Pro by HTC to ensure it has adequate inventory in all channels before making the device commercially available.” If you’re looking for specifics, we’re told that consumers can expect the handset “in chosen national retailers by the end of the month and then in all Sprint sales channels (including online at www.sprint.com and Sprint stores) by early November.” It’s not that next month is really that far away, it’s just that next month isn’t on Sunday. Bugger.

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Tags: Adequate Inventory, Bad News, Bugger, Cdma, Consumers, Delicate Hands, Early November, Handset, Launch, Little Bit, National Retailers, Nbsp, Sales Channels, Specifics, Sprint Stores, Sprint Users, Www Sprint

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

So the good news is that T-Mobile has decided to keep right on taking pre-orders for the G1 through October 21, just one day before the handset’s official launch. The bad news, though, is that it doesn’t mean you’ll be getting your Android on come October 22. Turns out that the initial allotment of G1s set aside for pre-orders is at this time sold out completely, and any names taken between at this time and launch will be allotted phones being shipped “at a later date.” It’s not clear if a “later date” means a week, a month, or a decade after the 22nd, but for the sake of everyone involved, we hope its the former.

Update: T-Mobile’s site says that pre-orders taken from in this place on out will be delivered “as early as November 10,” so it seems like you early birds are plan to have a nice little period of exclusivity. Thanks, everyone!

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Tags: Allotment, Android, Bad News, Decade, Early Birds, Exclusivity, Gsm Edge, Handset, HTC, Launch, Mobile Gsm, Nbsp, Sake, T Mobile, Umts