Motorola Goes After Apple iPhone

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Motorola (MOT) plans to announced shortly that it will introduce a phone aimed directly at the Apple (AAPL) iPhone. The phone will support 30 frame per second video and will allow users to watch entire movies loaded by SD card.

The first target for the phone will be Europe where 3G networks are more wide-spread, but as these systems are built out in the US, Wall St, can expect to see it here.

Most analysts believe that Motorola’s upcoming quarter will be disappointing. The company has said as much, but is looking at a second half recovery. Very few people on Wall St. believe this is possible because the company’s flagship handset, the RAZR has been in the market for two years and is heavily discounting, damaging the company’s margins.

With Apple targeting 10 million iPhone sales in its first year, it is hard to see the Motorola product doing any better.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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