14 DAY TRIAL // Motorola, the world's second-largest mobile phone maker, said on Wednesday it had solved a technical glitch in its RAZR cell phone that had stopped shipments for three to four days.
"We caught it and fixed it," Chief Executive Edward Zander told reporters. "There were three or four days where we stopped shipments and went in and fixed it." It came from a firm that had only recently started to supply Motorola with components for the ultra slim RAZR.
Zander said the problem was in phones shipped to just two carriers in the United States -Cingular Wireless and T-Mobile USA- and most of the problem handsets had been caught in the inventory of those two firms.
The company's fourth-quarter net earnings shot up 86 percent to $1.2 billion on the strength of demand for its mobile phones, such as the RAZR.
Motorola controls about 19 percent of the worldwide handset market, but lags Finnish rival Nokia by a wide margin.