European mobile phones manufacturers: Sendo, one more to go!

It seems like it's hunting season and that the European mobile phones manufacturers are not doing well. Sadly, cash-starved UK-based Sendo was put into receivership on June 29th. Sendo must have been talking around for a while, because Motorola quickly announced it was buying most of the assets of Sendo. This if great, given the quality of the products and the technology.
In a previous post, we mentioned that three manufacturers have recently left Europe: Siemens, who sold its mobile phone assets to BenQ, Alcatel, who sold its shares in the joint-venture it had created with chinese manufacturer TCL just a year before, and Mitsubishi, who closed its research center in France, a year after closing its factory there, laying off 1,000 people. All this in less than six months, with Sendo closing the march. What a semester!
Needless to say, this will have an impact on the rest of the industry, and particularly for the European suppliers to these manufacturers. There is the real prospect now of a disappearance of a once-vibrant industry.