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Motorola getting friendly with Android
Motorola getting friendly with Android
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 ...
Motorola Building Up 350-Person Android Team.  Nokia Also Sniffing Around.
Motorola Building Up 350-Person Android Team. Nokia Also Sniffing Around.
techcrunch.com — The iPhone may be the only game in town for serious mobile Web developers right now, but... that won’t last long. Next year, the iPhone will see some serious competition from Google’s Android platform. Of course, T-Mobile will start selling the first ... (more) Motorola Building Up 350-Person Android Team. Nokia ...
Motorola Confirm Android Development
Motorola Confirm Android Development
talkandroid.com — Reports circulating recently have rumoured that Motorola are beginning to focus more attention on the android platform.... The company reportedly plan to increase their current Android dev team from 50 to 350. Motorola have today responded to these ... (more) Motorola Confirm Android Development
Motorola Is Going Android, Nokia Might Follow
Motorola Is Going Android, Nokia Might Follow
blogs.pcworld.com — Motorola is hoping to stem its recent financial bloodletting by throwing its might behind the popular Android... operating system. It's betting that Android is the mobile OS of the future and has reportedly begun to assemble a 350 team...  ... (more) Motorola Is Going Android, Nokia Might Follow
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Motorola getting friendly with Android - Engadget Mobile
Futurelawyer — Link: Motorola getting friendly with Android - Engadget Mobile. As Google trots out its FREE Android OS for smartphones, the manufacturers are getting interested. Motorola is gearing to manufacture phones that use the OS, and it promises to be a flood before long. I don't know that I will be dropping my long loved Palm OS anytime soon; but, it is really nice to see Google using its size and clout to create an open source smartphone market. That can only be good for consumers and mobile lawyers. ...

Motorola flashes its OHA member card, confirms it's working on Android products
Engadget — ... interest in actually doing something with Android, and in Motorola's case, we're going to go out on a limb here and say that, you know, in all likelihood, they were fixin' to drop an Android build onto a phone or two at some point down the road. Indeed, BetaNews has received a brief, largely unhelpful statement from Moto saying that it "look[s] forward to delivering great products in partnership with Google and the Open Handset Alliance community," which -- in light of the recent Android hiring frenzy alleged on Moto's campus -- is about the minimum amount of disclosure a ...

Motorola cancels RAZR3 / Ruby, era comes closer to an end
Engadget — ... as America's best selling handset. Now, we're finding that the RAZR3 / Ruby has been canned. Granted, the move isn't all that surprising -- after all, Moto's known for awhile now that it simply can't keep tweaking the RAZR instead of, you know, innovating. But honestly, if this signals that the company is serious about moving forward and possibly adopting Android on the double, we won't shed a tear. Okay, maybe one, but only after all the lights are out. ...

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