Sales from its handset business climbed 20 percent to $2 billion last quarter, helping to narrow its loss to $43 million from $216 million a year earlier. The division had an operating profit, excluding some charges, of $3 million. Motorola said it shipped 3.8 million smartphones last quarter.
via Motorola Profit Tops Estimates on Rising Sales of Droid Phones – Bloomberg.
Motorola shipped a total of 9.1 million phones. This is down 33% from the year-ago quarter’s 13.6 million units but up 10% sequentially from 8.3 million last quarter.
I’ll summarize the top tier vendors’ unit volumes, sales value, price and profitability in a few days.