Well Well, check out this little tibit from the TreoCentral Forums:

A mention today in the 750 forum makes the third instance I have heard that the ATT WM6 upgrades are being held up by the delays of GMM 5.0. Sources say that the ROM has been ready for weeks now (as witnessed by the dozens of successful upgrades with the "leaked" ATT ROM at places like XDA). However, since the GetGood functionality is part of ATT's base ROM, and since GMM 4.x versions are supposedly incompatible with WM6, the whole shooting match is waiting on GMM 5.0 to be complete.

Read: GMM 5.0 Holding Up WM6 Upgrades for ATT Devices - TreoCentral.com

Nice sleuthing there, WDW. Good Messaging, if you didn't know, is a great little push email alternative to Exchange and Blackberry for Windows Mobile (and PalmOS), which was acquired by Motorola. This whole theory should be taken with a grain of salt, though, as GoodGuy mentions that it gives "Good way too much credit for holding WM6 up." I'd tend to agree with GoodGuy, but something's holding things up, and I'm losing faith in my belief that it's because AT&T wants to drop WM6 for the Blackjack, 8525, and Treo 750 all at the same time. The ROM's for all three devices are, I believe, ready.

It's been a rough quarter for Motorola and the result is that they posted a loss of $28 million for the quarter. I'm not at all surprised by the loss. Take a gander at all of the hijinks that they've been though in the past few months:

• CEO Ed Zander's iPhone blinders: "How do they [Apple] deal with us?" when his best competition for the iPhone is a refreshed (though admittedly sorta cool) RAZR.
• Publicly apologizing for the fact that the company seems to be tanking
• Laying off a bunch of people
• Delaying the Q9 again and again (well, maybe not technically a delay, but why on earth hasn't this been released yet?). Not to mention messing up the Q branding.
• Failing to quell rumors they were buying Palm
• Fighting off investor Carl Icahn.

And that's just the coverage here. Now, Motorola has said that they're hoping the smartphone space will help save them and they may have a point there - the only bright spot in their report is that "Enterprise Mobility" is doing just fine, thanks. Must be those nice guys from Good Technology that got brought into the fold. My advice to them - keep your head down and keep on keepin' on.

In the second quarter, Motorola reported a net loss of $28 million, or 1 cent a share, down from year-ago profit of $1.38 billion, or 55 cents a share.

The mobile unit also posted an operating loss of $264 million, compared with an $804 million gain a year earlier.

Motorola's third major segment, called Enterprise Mobility, saw a 42% jump in sales to $1.9 billion. Operating profit rose to $302 million from $252 million.

Read: UPDATE: Motorola Turns To Loss As Mobile-phone Sales Fizzle Abroad

Well now, Motorola is buyingGood Technology, they who provide great push-email solutions for all sorts of devices. I've been a fan of this company even before they went all server-side email on us - back when they had the Soundsgood mp3 springboard for visors. TreoCentral's Jennifer Chappell writes:

*Well, now it appears that Motorola knows a "good" thing when it sees it -- Motorola has acquired Good. Now consumers might have a choice between BlackBerry Connect or Good software on a Motorola WM device.

I think it might go a little further than that - I'm willing to bet that Moto wants to have a dead-simple email solution for consumers - ala Sidekick. At least they promised to continue to support non-Moto devices.

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