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To: JGoren who wrote (12613)	7/21/1998 12:43:00 AM
From: 2brasil	Respond to of 152472

yeaH YEAH Motorola Expected To Unveil Digital Phones CHICAGO (Reuters) - Motorola is expected to unveil on Tuesday long-awaited digital wireless phones, seen as key to a recovery for the struggling technology giant, analysts said. The company is holding a media luncheon with management on Tuesday and said it would introduce new products. A spokeswoman for Motorola declined to give specifics about the product announcements. Analysts, however, said they expected Motorola to unveil its popular tiny, pager-sized StarTAC phones for more digital networks in an effort to catch up with rivals. Motorola is by far the leader in older analog phones, but Ericsson of Sweden and Nokia of Finland, for example, already offer phones with enhanced features for digital CDMA (code division multiple access) and TDMA (time division multiple access) phone systems. Motorola, based in Schaumburg, Illinois, is also expected to show new phones for GSM (global system for mobile communications) digital networks, common in Europe. Motorola's StarTAC phone is already available for GSM as well as for analog phone systems. Motorola has been criticized for delays in relea sing new digital telephones, as analysts see the products as critical to driving near-term growth. Excluding massive charges for restructuring and layoffs, Motorola posted a second-quarter operating profit of $0.01 a share vs. operating earnings of $0.64 a share last year and warned it would probably just about break even in the third quarter as well. Motorola's semiconductor business has been especially hard hit by the economic turmoil in Asia. Earlier this month, Motorola announced plans to combine all its communications-related businesses into one unit. The company named veteran Motorola executive Merle Gilmore as president of the new "communications enterprise," and he will attend Tuesday's media luncheon. Motorola is also expected to announce on Tuesday products that combine technologies of the previously separate communications businesses, such as combination two-way pager and cell phone products, analysts said.