Yet another poor show in its quarterly results, Motorola will be handing out as many as 3,000 pink slips. The handset vendor has lost its third position in the global handset market share to SOny Ericsson. However, the big news from the Moto camp is their decision to limit the number of operating systems its mobile phones use. At the moment, Motorola devices are based on a number of operating systems including its own P2K, Symbian UIQ, MOTOMAGX (Linux Java) and Windows Mobile. 

However, the company now intends to use just three operating systems — P2K for generic phones, Android for multimedia phones and Windows Mobile for the enterprise segment. While it bodes well in terms of the manpower required to maintain the product portfolio, it will be a big gamble for the already struggling company. Android is yet to prove its worth and even if Motorola works on an Android phone, it won’t be in a position to launch a new device based on Google’s operating system anytime sooner than the latter half of next year. What the company will do till then? We feel that it will keep its fingers crossed that things work out.