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Okay, look, we seriously don’t support laughing at Moto’s misfortunes, and that’s the truth — but they just made it too easy here. Above is a screen shot of AP’s brief about the sitch as it appeared for us on Yahoo! News. How better to compliment a MOTOSTRY than with a MOTOADVT, right? The ad here is encouraging us to get our news right on our V3xx, even if said news has to do with Motorola’s bleak outlook for fiscal ‘07, apparently. Come on, if you don’t get a good belly laugh out of that, you need to check your pulse… so yeah, anyway, the post-RAZR hangover continues at Moto, with CFO David Devonshire “retiring” to make way for Thomas Meredeth effective April Fools’ Day. Profit forecasts are also continuing to follow their downward trend, with the first quarter now expected to rake in revenues of $9.2 to 9.3 billion, down from the $10.4 to 10.6 billion quoted just two short months ago. CEO Zander himself blames much of the shortfall on competitors’ price pressures in the low-end segment; personally, we blame the shortfall on the fact that we still don’t have a frickin’ MOTORIZR Z8 in our hands, but what do we know?

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BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD Step behind the curtain at Ford Motor. Experience the documentary first-hand.

Source: www.engadgetmobile.com

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, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Rogers Wireless, GSM, GPRS, EDGE

Canada’s other GSM network has picked up a couple goodies that we thought our friends north of the border might be interested to hear about. First up, Fido gets the Nokia E62, bringing some QWERTY S60 action to the carrier’s stable, something Cingular customers have been enjoying for a while now — and like its American counterpart, Fido gets the dumbed-down version sans UMTS rather than the original E61. Next up is the Z710i from Sony Ericsson, a decent midrange clamshell rocking a 2 megapixel cam and a rather portly exterior monochrome display. Look for both in stores now; the E62 will run you $200 CDN (about $170) on a three (yes, three) year contract, while the Z710i will go for $75 (about $64) on the same brutally lengthy agreement — thank goodness for early upgrades.

[Thanks, Francis P.]

Update: Yep, it seems the Z610i has been kicking around for a little while up there (which is more we can say for any American carrier).

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BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD Step behind the curtain at Ford Motor. Experience the documentary first-hand.

Source: www.engadgetmobile.com

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, Sony Ericsson, Misc

Sony Ericsson may be about to announce a new mid-level (or entry-level) K-series handset based on pretty convincing images that don’t appear as Photoshop’ish as we’ve seen recently. This Sony Ericsson prototype model appears to have a digicam reminiscent of the K510i (and other semi-new handsets) along with the wide, large-keypad design of some of SE’s newer entry-level handsets like the J100i. With Sony Ericsson’s entry-level and mid-level handset portfolio fairly complete at this time, we wonder what this new model (if it even exists) will bring to the table.

[Via just another mobile phone blog]

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BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD Step behind the curtain at Ford Motor. Experience the documentary first-hand.

Source: www.engadgetmobile.com

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