Motorola plans to cancel the launch of its MPx230 Microsoft Windows-based smartphone, manufactured by Chi Mei Communication Systems (CMCS), according to sources at Taiwan handset makers. The vendor also intends to discontinue orders of the MPx200 and MPx220 models with CMCS and the MPx with Compal Electronics, indicated the sources.
CMCS and Compal declined to comment on the report.
If the smartphone orders are canceled, it may confirm a January 21 article, which quoted the Chinese-language Commercial Times as saying that Taiwan handset makers will no longer land ODM orders for Microsoft smartphones from Motorola.
Sources in the China handset market noted that the cancellation of the MPx is partly because the China government has banned unapproved devices using Wi-Fi from being sold in the country. Rather than take the Wi-Fi out of the device, Motorola instead decided to no bother selling the model in China, according to the sources.
Article translated by Jessie Shen and edited by John McClure
