Friday, January 21, 2005


Motorola moving Windows Mobile handset production in-house >
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Taiwan’s DigiTimes isn’t exactly the most airtight source for tech news, but if they’re right we may have an inkling as to why it’s taken so long for Motorola to bring their new Windows Mobile-powered Smartphones and Pocket PC Phones to market. They report that Motorola has decided to stop using Taiwanese original design manufacturers to build their Windows Mobile handsets and is switching production to its own facilities. No specific reasons why are mentioned, but after a little reading between the lines we’d guess that Moto was dissatisfied with the quality control, or lack thereof, on the part of the ODMs (seems unlikely they’re doing this to save money, since that’s why people go to ODMs in the first place). What we do know for sure is that Motorola has had lots of problems with their Windows Mobile handsets lately—you might remember that the MPx220 was pulled off shelves for an update in November and the long-delayed MPx still isn’t out officially out here (you’ll have to hit Brunei or Malaysia if you want to get in on that action)—and it sounds like they’re actually doing something about it.

[Via PocketPCTools]

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