February 17, 2005
Motorola CEO on RAZR Expansion and iTunes Phone
Reuters interviewd Ed Zander, the CEO of Motorola:"RAZR is a 'wow' product. Look what this product has done for us. We sold less than a million RAZRs in the fourth quarter, on a total of 32 million phones. But this product has driven a lot of people to the Motorola brand," Zander said in an interview at the 3GSM wireless trade show in Cannes.
Another new model, the yet-to-be-unveiled ROKR, will be Motorola's first phone that is fully compatible with Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes software, which will be Motorola's default music player on handsets. Unlike Apple, which allows Motorola users to carry a limited number of songs on their mobile phones in order to protect its popular iPod portable music player business, the rivals will allow consumers to carry as much music as they can store on their phone's memory cards. There are already tiny memory cards on the market with capacity of one gigabyte that can store hundreds of songs.
