Friday, May 07, 2004

Forbes.com: Motorola's Hat Trick

The few of you that read this probably know that I, along with roughly 120 other engineers, techs, factory support folks, program managers, etc, worked on Motorola's Triplets program. My facility was the primary integration site for both hardware and software for all three Triplets phones and is still working on two spin-off projects based on the same architecture. You also may know that we were all laid off just after the triplets received ship authorization. This is the kind of stuff that really ticks me off!

Forbes.com: Motorola's Hat Trick:
"The new V-series (V300, V500 and V600) clamshells were among the top-selling phones nationally during the first quarter for global system for mobile communications (GSM) carriers. The new phones are also credited with tripling Motorola's (nyse: MOT - news - people ) first- quarter net income and boosting its worldwide market share."