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Motorola to Offer More Cellphone OEM orders to Mainland
Wednesday, October 28, 2009; Posted: 07:37 AM

BEIJING, Oct 28, 2009 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) -- SPRD | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) is enhancing its cooperation with Mainland China-based cellphone manufacturers instead of such companies in Taiwan, according to insiders.
Presently, Motorola mainly authorizes mainland OEMs to produce its Greater China-oriented low- and medium-end cellphones, of which most adopt the chips of MediaTek Inc. (TPE: 2454) and Shanghai-based Spreadtrum Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRD)[/].

In detail, the mainland's TCL Corp. (SZSE: 000100) is said to produce the Motorola WX-series low-end mobile phones and E11-branded multimedia phones with the chips of MediaTek and Spreadtrum, respectively. If these phones were well sold, the US company is expected to further boost its outsourcing in the mainland.

Upon Motorola's OEM strategy transformation, insiders anticipated that Taiwan OEMs like Compal Communications Inc. (TPE: 8078), Chi Mei Communications Systems Inc., and Qisda Corp. (TPE: 2352) would have to compete for 3G cellphone and smartphone orders against their US peers.