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Motorola remains a troubled outfit… it has been for ages.  But the firm now has a 25.8% market share of the U.S. mobile phone handset market.

Why is Motorola hanging on and perhaps turning around while its technology lags?  Solid business relationships with the carriers and a big footprint for distribution.

Boston-based Strategy Analytics tracks mobile device trends, among other things.  It notes that at the end of Q2 2008, Blackberry hit a double digit market share.  The reason why: adding consumer handsets to its lineup of enterprise handsets is proving to be a good move.  

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Is Microsoft’s Zune so far behind the iPod it borders on being irrelevant? Can it be dressed up and given another shot, or should it simply be shot?

Look for Microsoft to try and inject new life into the moribund Zune with original and exclusive video content.

What does this look like? Here’s how Richard Winn, Zune’s Director of Entertainment Development puts it…

“What we would be looking to do with any form of original content is the added component that Zune could provide that iTunes or any competing service couldn’t.”

How much catching up does the Zune have to pull off? Since its debut in November, 2006, 2 million Zunes have been sold. By comparison, Apple sells 3.5 million iPods a month.

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