Motorola to announce Intel-powered smartphone on September 18

Motorola recently started sending out invites for an event on September 18. It will be a joint-event held by Motorola and Intel, which could mean the launch of an Intel-powered smartphone. The two companies had announced their intentions to launch a smartphone on Intel’s silicon at CES earlier this year.

This would make Motorola one of the first tier-one brands to launch a smartphone running Intel’s Medfield Atom chipset. The invite says “let us take you to the edge”, which could mean a thin smartphone with an edge-to-edge display. September is turning out to be one hell of a month with Nokia and HTC launching their first Windows Phone 8 smartphones and of course, Apple’s next iPhone. Motorola is also planning an event on September 5 with Verizon. Having said that, let’s not get excited considering Motorola is exiting India.

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Goodbye Moto! Motorola to shut shop in India, Asia Pacific

Motorola is shutting down its operations in India and across Asia Pacific!! The news comes after Motorola Mobility CEO,  Dennis Woodside, confirmed the company would beletting go of 20 percent of its workforce and would be shrinking its India operations. Emails and calls to Motorola Mobility’s APAC region PR and employees at Motorola Mobility India remain unanswered.

From the way things look like, only those employees who are working on projects related to products in the US will retain their jobs. Motorola will continue to sell its products till stocks last and its service centers will continue to function. Independent real estate companies have confirmed that Motorola’s Hyderabad R&D facility property has been put up for sale.

In the APAC region, the company will shut shop in all countries but Australia and Korea. It turns out that the APAC region bore the brunt of Motorola’s decision to close a third of its 94 global offices. Woodside had earlier indicated the company would exit unprofitable markets, stop making low-end devices and focus on a few cellphones instead of dozens.

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