Camera shortage affecting new mobiles

Motorola is facing supply problems for camera components that are hurting its unit volumes, executives at the company said this week.

According to Tom Lynch, president of Motorola's Personal Communications Sector (PCS), the company's new integrated-camera handsets are seeing strong demand, but deliveries are slowing on the restricted supply of the integrated-
camera components.

The Motorola V300 and V500 began shipping earlier in the quarter and are available today, and the V600 will ship imminently," Lynch said. "Unit volumes, however, are lower than our customers are asking for due to supply constraints for the integrated-camera components."

Meanwhile, Motorola still expects 18 new phones to ship this quarter, seven featuring colour displays and eight featuring colour displays and integrated cameras.

"The supply constraint for integrated-camera components is an industry-wide problem," said Bob Perez, v-p and general manager of supply chain operations for Motorola PCS. "Motorola is feeling a larger impact because of the extremely limited supply of the smaller camera technology that we use for our handsets."
Motorola said demand trends are very strong for Motorola handsets in North America, Europe and Asia.
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