Motorola expected to launch a Google-badged phone

9th February, 2010 by Adina
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A confirmation came from Motorola during a call to discuss its latest quarterly achievements that a Google-branded phone is in work. Sanjay Jha, chief executive of the company, said that 20 smartphones are prepared for the whole year and one of them will be a device made with Google, like the Nexus One made by HTC. Details of the new phone and shipping dates were not provided by the Motorola official.

The handset might be stylistically related to the MOTOROI and the Droid. The MOTOROI is expected to reach the United States in March in T-Mobile’s network and another of its close relatives could reach Verizon.

The Nexus One has been very closely co-developed by Google, which was very interested in controlling the hardware and the software of the device. Google considers the Nexus One to be more than an experiment and tries to duplicate some of the hardware and software integrated in devices from competitors like Palm, Research in Motion or Apple.

Motorola seems to fully benefit from promoting smartphones. It had a second consecutive profit at the end of last year, as high as $142 million, thanks to very successful smartphones like the Droid. At the same time, Motorola had a 20 percent year-over-year drop in sales, about $5.7 billion, which reflects the company’s sheer fall in overall numbers. Estimates for this winter are not more promising.

The importance of the smartphones for the company was emphasized, as Motorola shipped a total of about 12 million phones, 2 million of them being smartphones. The Droid is believed the most important of them, helped by the Cliq. For this season, the MOTOROI, the Backflip and the handsets launched in China should be supporting the Droid.


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