Motorola’s Ed Zander Talks About The Future Of Cell Phones

Ed Zander has survived a proxy battle with Carl Icahn over the future of telephony and Motorola. Now he’s expounding on where he sees the industry and his company going in the future.

PC-like features are being ported over to cell phones with increasing frequency, pushing the phone down the same path that led to the PC’s dominant role in home and office technology, Motorola’s Ed Zander said during his keynote speech here at Software 2007, an industry conference.

“We’re making a bet that what happened to PCs will happen to these (smart phones),” said Zander,

A movement is afoot within the software industry to create micro-applications, such as customer relationship management software, forecasting systems and revenue tracking software, and load them onto these handheld devices, Zander said.

Talk about SmartPhones has been strong this year, but there is still little mass movement due to pricing. But Zander sees a sweet spot in the enterprise segment, regardless of weakness in the consumer divisions.

Zander is sitting on $12 billion in cash, and is expected to invest heavily in R&D for handset development.

Resource: News.com