Motorola Android Sales Miss Expectations (MOT, GOOG)

Motorola shipped fewer Android smartphones during the Christmas quarter than expected, and it expects to lose money this quarter.

The handset maker said today that it shipped 4.9 million smartphones during Q4, which is below the 5.5 million shipments expected by Morgan Stanley's Ehud Gelblum.

And as Motorola's top customer (Verizon Wireless) starts shipping Apple's iPhone this quarter, Motorola says it expects to lose $26 million to $62 million.

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Motorola Android Sales Miss Expectations (MOT, GOOG)

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Motorola Splitting To Ride The Android Wave (MOT, GOOG)

Motorola will split into two companies on January 4, 2011: Motorola Mobility will include the mobile phone business, and Motorola Solutions will get everything else.

First announced earlier this month by CEO Greg Brown, the split is meant to help investors capitalize on the sudden rise of Android in the smartphone market. Motorola's Droid phones aren't necessarily the best Android handsets out there--that honor usually goes to HTC--but it's certainly been one of the best selling Android phones. And unlike Samsung and HTC, Motorola isn't splitting its bets among multiple platforms by embracing Windows Phone 7, but is sticking with Android whole hog. 

The division of the company will be accompanied by a reverse stock split, with shareholders getting one Motorola Solutions share for every seven Motorola shares they own today, and one Motorola Mobility share for every eight Motorola shares.

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And now Apple is suing Motorola for patent infringement. (Motorola sued Apple earlier this month.)

And now Apple is suing Motorola for patent infringement. (Motorola sued Apple earlier this month.)

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