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Rumor no longer, Motorola is taking a hard look at its Mobile Devices unit and might very well give those slackers the ol’ Freescale treatment and spin off the division as a separate company. This sort of love ‘em and leave ‘em tactic is oddly a bit of a habit with Motorola when times are bad, and times certainly have been better — Motorola’s phone unit lost $388 million this quarter, compared to $341 million in earnings a year ago.
When you’ve finally exhausted the entire spectrum of colors for your phone models ranging from the subdued to the wild, what’s the next frontier? Mixing and matching, of course. Samsung’s so-called “Secret Color” SPH-W3600 and SCH-W360 sliders for the Korean market look like factory seconds — manufacturing mistakes that accidentally found their way into the public domain — and with most products, you’d expect such buffoonery to warrant a discount.