It's no secret that Motorola's handset division has been in trouble for some time, but things are starting to look extremely perilous for the former number one hadnset manufacturer. After recording record losses when other companies have reported record profits, losing the number two slot to Samsung, and talking about possibly selling off the loss-making handset division as a separate company, the last thing Motorola needs is for a large international telco to drop its products.

So guess what T-Mobile, the large international telco, has just done? Yup, shelved the launch of the Motorola Z6w, which it was set to carry this summer. Ouch! The Z6w was a weak phone, to be sure, with Wi-Fi and precious little else. Certainly it was years behind its competitors, and it didn't have the style or even the rapidly-fading cache of the RAZR.

As such, with Motorola's recent woes, little new on the horizon, and a weak range of phones to boot, T-Mobile have lost confidence in the phone. They claim they've dropped it due to "testing issues", but even this isn't exactly reassuring, as it means that Motorola are now manufacturing poorly featured phones that aren't even all that reliable!

The writing may not yet be on the wall, but the pens, if not the knives, are certainly out.

[Source: BoyGeniusReport]