The earlier attempts for selling off the pieces of the company had failed but after the company had hired Sanjay Jha from Qualcomm, the long troubled mobile phone operations of the company started to gain more traction in the marketplace which is particularly by the development of the devices that are based on the Android platform of Google. Icahn is currently losing money in his investment of Motorola but with the help of averaging out his cost per share of the stock of the company he is hoping that he would be able to cash in when the company would split two of its main units provided the stock increases substantially.