&TMotorola’s phones once held so much cachet that mammoth wireless carrier AT clamored for the exclusive right to sell the best-selling Razr. that year, AT&T has taken only one new Motorola phone, the Z9 slider.

The company’s falling star at AT&T, the largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier, underscores Motorola’s persistent failure to release handsets that grab the attention of consumers and the service providers whose marketing is crucial to sales. It only reinforces concern by Motorola’s ability to spin off

the leaderless, money-losing handset division.

Once having commanded more than one-fifth of the global handset market, Motorola likely ended the second quarter with 8.5 percent share, from 9.3 percent in the first quarter, according to Avian Securities. In June, Avian analysts surveyed 100 representatives of AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, and T-Mobile USA retail locations and found that Motorola phones no longer even manufacture it onto the list of the top […]

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