Motorola getting friendly with Android

by Tim Stevens posted Sep 29th 2008 at 12:28PM

When a major player like Google comes up with a new mobile operating system that's better than the competition and is totally free, you would certainly expect handset manufacturers to be interested. But there's interested, and then there's interested. After lingering for nearly a year in the former category Motorola is now firmly moving to the latter, hiring and headhunting in an effort to build up a 350-person group entirely focused on development of Android phones. The company was one of the original members of the Open Handset Alliance, but seems to have waited for the release buzz from HTC's G1 before diving in head-first. There's talk that Nokia (and its "real phones") may be feeling the vibrations too, allegedly forming an internal team to do the same -- on the down low.

Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, Android

Tags: android, google, motorola, nokia, open handset alliance, OpenHandsetAlliance

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PEZ @ Sep 29th 2008 6:51PM

Now thats a pisser! Maybe a whole new crazy-assed carrier with only anroids phones will appear. Im sure moto was getting slammed with fees for winmo, now all they have to do is R&D... uuh.

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Fernando @ Sep 29th 2008 1:12PM

The V whatever picture that illustrates this post in the rss is better, lol, j/k.

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slamEVIL @ Sep 29th 2008 2:40PM

how is it better? because it's not winmo? your opinion?

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Jack @ Sep 29th 2008 3:58PM

The head looks like a bra.

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SoCoolCurt (PSN: KillaKornbread) @ Sep 29th 2008 10:49PM

free isnt always better, but it seems so far (from very early G1 reviews anyway) that Android is a pretty solid platform. these companies now have a chance to cut out the OS royalties and in house ground up development, so why wouldnt they? i was actually completely surprised when they announced that the G1 would be the exclusive Android phone for a while. i expected a floury of them from the gates.