Motorola Attila shows up in the wild

Slowly but surely, Motorola is easing away from the tired design of the old RAZR and looks ready to try something new. Their first QWERTY slider could be launching soon, in the form of the Motorola QA30, and now we find that the Motorola Attila, too, takes on a new approach in design.

If these leaked Motorola Attila pictures turn out to be of the real thing, that is. You see, while we here at Unwired View are as thirsty for new material as the next phone geek, we’re not entirely convinced that Motorola will launch a robust, iPhone clone-like handheld like this one as their official iPhone killer.

We have faith left in Motorola, no matter how little, and somehow know that they won’t (or shouldn’t) come out with a monstrosity such as this, if their successful days with the slim and sharp RAZR taught them any good.

The fact that the second photo we’ve embedded here shows the alleged Motorola Attila with a very iPhone-esque theme doesn’t help convince us either. With a theme like that, it might as well be just another clone, much like the Motorola Aura knock-off we spotted last week.

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Interesting Symbian Statistics

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• Symbian now has almost 1300 employees
• In the first half of 2007, 34.6 million Symbian OS-powered smartphones were shipped. So we’re up to roughly 70 million a year, out of around a billion ‘phones’ sold per year. So 7% of all phones are powered by Symbian OS. And, interestingly, worldwide sales of desktop and laptop PCs aren’t much higher and are set to be overtaken – so the smartphone will become the dominant computing form factor in the next year.
• Looking at ’smartphones’, i.e. those which can be extended using native applications (as opposed to Java midlets), Symbian OS now has a 72.4% market share (as at the end of Q2, 2007), up from 70% a year ago. If you’re interested, Linux is in second place, with 13.3%, Microsoft in third with 6.1% for Windows Mobile and RIM (Blackberry) in fourth with 5.3%.
• Apparently there are now 7888 native third party applications written to run on Symbian OS, and this number is up by almost 50% from a year ago.
• There’s been a lot of interest in starting to develop software for Symbian OS, with (apparently) over 70,000 downloads of the starter PDF on the Symbian web site.
• China’s a big growth area, sales of Symbian OS-powered phones in China already account for over 12% of Symbian’s market. As with India, this can only grow and grow, despite the wide availability of cheap knock-off devices.
• You’re probably wondering how Apple’s iPhone is doing. Leaving aside questions about whether it’s a true smartphone or not, it’s currently selling at 1.3% of worldwide smartphone sales (but 12% of smartphone sales in the USA).

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