Motorola (MOT): A buy for 'intrepid investors'

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"Well, it's finally happened; under mounting internal and external pressure, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has spun off its handset business," says technology stock expert Gregg Early.

This move, he notes, developed after Carl Icahn came in, picked up about 6% of the company, and wanted to shake things up. Here's Gregg's update from his industry-leading The Real Nanontech Investor.

"Motorola's handset division has been lost in the desert since the successful launch of the Razr a couple years ago. Since then, it's lost market share and has been less than imaginative in developing new mobile handsets. This kind of product pipeline strangulation isn't unusual at Moto.

"In the 1990s, the company almost went under because it couldn't quite figure out how to exploit all the great work it was doing in its labs. Getting products