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In a bid to garner a bigger market share in the Indian telecom market, Motorola has set the wheels to transform its presence as a main player in the mid-to-premium market segment for mobile handsets in India.

Motorola plans to put 300 smaller version of its flagship concept store ‘MotoStore’ over the next six months in a move to obtain a sizable share in the Indian handset replacement market, estimated to be in the neighborhood of 450-500 million units by 2010 driven by handset replacement sales.

Motorola’s mini MotoStores will be located in inside lifestyle stores which Motorola hopes to provide a complete experience to the consumers in terms of handset choices and accessories and to strengthen the company’s retail presence across the country.

Motorola’s stock took a dive and the company struggled to find a successor that matches the unprecedented success of its Razr handset that set off other cellular phone manufacturers struggling.

The snob appeal of flagship Razr phone, which took the market by storm when it hit the market a few years ago, wore off and sales of other phone units plummeted as the company try to outdo its success with the Razr.

Motorola’s fumbles were exploited by rival cell phone manufacturers as they introduced new phones that rivaled or exceeded the original Razr V3’s capabilities and feature set.

However, the latest handset models from the Schaumburg, Illinois-company looks promising has struggled to find an update that could match its success and pose a threat to other manufacturers as consumer response to the latest Moto rollout have been better than good.

Black and shiny, sporting a flamboyant glass front, Motorola’s V6 RAZR MAXX follows hot on the heels of the V3X series as the US phone manufacturer tries to gain ground in the 3G arena.

Aside from UMTS, the phone features support for HSDPA and EDGE. The MAXX features Bluetooth 2.0+ Enhanced Data Rate, 50MB internal storage, a microSD card slot for expansion up to 2GB and touch sensitive music controls. The

The RAZR MAXX is comes with the fastest and latest mobile technologies from of Motorola like a 2-MP camera with 8x digital zoom, multimedia messaging, music player, Java technology, Bluetooth, USB, EDGE, 3G HSDPA, OTA, WAP and XHTML.

With mobile telephony 3G technology barely out of the gates, Motorola has signaled a race to corner the 4G market with its WiMax mobile broadband technology.

In parallel developments and strategic market positioning, Motorola is upgrading its 3G handsets and infrastructure, an area in which it has been overtaken by rivals in the mobile infrastructure and handset wars between North American, European and Asian mobile technology providers.

With 3G technology still in its infancy, Motorola leads manufacturers in cornering and patenting 4G technology in the next generation of mobile communication devices. Even its Asian competitors are not to be left behind with Toshiba, Matsushita, Samsung, NEC, Mitsubishi and Sony in a frantic attempt to capture as much 4G intellectual property as they can, in anticipation of the transition from 3G to 4G technology.

Although patent ownership does not guarantee success in cornering the 4G market, cross-licensing between rival handset manufacturers can set the trend for a more integrated development mobile technology. This scenario would of course be beneficial to us end-users all over the world.

Marketed as the MOTOPEBL, Motorola designers outdid themselves with the Motorola PEBL U6. The MOTOPEBL’s ultra smooth contour does not have any sharp edges or fussy lines, making it stand out as a model of understated and simplistic elegance.

It is available in several colors like White, Blue, Green, Maroon, Orange and Pink and sports an 18-bit primary display that can produce 262000 colors. It is equipped with Speech Recognition and features MOTOMIXER. Aside from which, it also comes equipped Bluetooth and USB connectivity.

The Motorola PEBL U6 has integrated VGA camera with 4x digital zoom, built in light and can shoot videos in high quality MPEG4 format. Its feature set includes a built in email client that supports POP3, SMTP and IMAP4 protocols. You can quickly get online with the GPRS technology and browse the Internet with the built in WAP 2.0 browser. The PEBL U6 supports all the four GSM mobile networks, so that you do not have to change phones when you travel.

Sprint’s demonstration of the capabilities of its Xohm WiMax technology this week on boat Summer of George as it sailed the Chicago River is hailed by press people and industry experts as impressive and consistent. Press reports about the capabilities of Motorola’s WiMax wireless technology have DSL and cable Internet providers worried.

Sprint’s demonstration of its Xohm WiMax capabilities was on the heels of Motorola’s demonstration of WiMax aboard a train and in a fast-moving car.

Chicago is one of six places in the U.S. where Motorola will put up network infrastructure to support Xohm as with Sprint gets ready to begin beta testing its Xohm WiMax service in Chicago, Baltimore and Washington before the end of the 2007.

Key to the initiative success is bringing aboard device manufacturers willing to embed WiMax in their products.

Laptop computer manufactures Acer, Asus, Lenovo, Panasonic and Toshiba have expressed intent to embed WiMax in their 2008 Intel Centrino-based laptops and ultra mobile PCs.

With Motorola’s recent acquisition of Good Technology, it is getting ready to challenge Blackberry’s mobile e-mail service. Motorola’s acquisition of Good Technology is touted as a very important step towards its goal of regaining market leadership in handheld business after reporting a loss for the past year.

With Good Technology’s specialization in mobile e-mail systems, the acquisition positions Motorola as a serious rival and alternative to Canada-based Research in Motion (RIM), the company behind Blackberry’s success. The first Motorola phones to incorporate Good Technology’s push e-mail technology is Motorola’s Q series of smart phones.

Aside from this latest innovation, Motorola is also betting on feature-driven handsets such as on-demand video service and the roll-out of wi-fi hotspots on steroids as the company describes their WiMax mobile broadband technology.

iMobile is now an authorized distributor of Motorola mobile products in China, further strengthening Motorola’s established presence in what is considered the world’s largest consumer market.

The agreement designates iMobile as an authorized distributor of Motorola accessories and products for Motorola’s Customer Service Network in mainland China as well as various Motorola outlets located in the provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi and Hainan. To further serve the Chinese consumer market, iMobile allied itself with Guangzhou Sono Communication Technology Co Ltd and ShenZhen JianKun Technology Co Ltd to form a strategic partnership under the name iPACT to better provide service to consumers and customers and increase their market share.

With its ground-breaking WiMax solution, the MOTOwi4, Motorola takes the lead in showcasing its technology which provides high speed broadband on-the-go to Internet users. The technology showcases Motorola’s advances over its competitors in the delivery of mobile, fixed and portable WiMAX solutions.

The communications giant is scheduled to provide WiMAX high-speed wireless broadband in late 2007 and early 2008 in key cities in the continental United States. Motorola’s technology can handle a plethora of Internet services on-the-go such as gaming, web browsing, Voice-over-IP (VoIP) calling, video conferencing including audio and video streaming utilizing the company’s IP multimedia subsystem (IMS).

So you have your self one of the cool new Motorola rokr phones, well I guarantee you are missing something that is the new Motorola MotoRokr S9 headphone.

The new Motorola MotoRokr s9 headphone features stylish looks and user compatibility. The new blue tooth headphones by Motorola will let you get the most out of your music and videos while on the go. The headset has a nice wrap around design and small ear buds that will fit in your ears comfortably.

The Motorola MotoRokr s9 blue tooth headset also features a nice close to head design so they will not slip out like other Bluetooth sets, and finally what we liked most about the new Motorola MotoRokr s9 head set was the cool duo color themes that they are available in.