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 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.

[Valicore Posted Sep 29th 2008 2:19PM]

It's because all of the preproduction G1s that were giving out are engraved with serial numbers on the front and sides. I don't think you're supposed to go out and flash it around. If a photo of her phone with the serial number got out, her ass would be grass.

[sinai Posted Sep 29th 2008 2:36PM]

yea, people who work for google have this waft of smugness surrounding them at all times.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2008 1:28PM]

Moto's had a small team of UI designers working on Android projects for over a year now... This isn't as new as you think.

[sinai Posted Sep 29th 2008 1:33PM]

"Moto's had a small team of UI designers working on Android projects for over a year now... This isn't as new as you think."

please read:
"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."

THANK YOU CAPTAIN OBVIOUS. Next time, try reading the article before spouting off useless tidbits to try and sound knowledgeable, you pretentious twat.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2008 1:48PM]

Good one sinai, but you should keep your lame ass name calling to yourself, talk about sounding pretentious. So this head-first diving just means they're not being as secretive about it as they were before. So as I said, they've been working on it for a long time, seriously working on it, not just kicking the idea around hoping someone like TMO would release a phone, ya jack leg!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2008 1:49PM]

It's BAT-DROID! Someone???

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2008 2:03PM]

As others have said, love the logo!

http://www.samalamadingdong.com

[FuturePastNow Posted Sep 29th 2008 2:44PM]

I thought Motorola was going to sell its cell division and stop making phones altogether?

[Ed T Posted Sep 29th 2008 3:35PM]

The logo looks like it belongs in a KKK rally flyer.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2008 4:22PM]

This is really good for Motorola. There main problem, besides repetitive/played out designs, was the interface. I mean who wants to pay near $200 for a cool looking phone that has the most basic interface. Using Android would mean that people would get actual value for buying motorola phones.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2008 7:11AM]

I like the basic design, but I would have put an "A" on his chest for "Android"....something like ....."Android-Moto-Man"

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 30th 2008 4:03AM]

The Pointy Haired Boss Approves.......

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 24th 2008 4:57PM]

Yeah, I wrote about this over at http://phonesocial.net/index.php?topic=189.0

I think it's kind of lame to take that long, they really need to hurry it up and be done with it. But nothing can compete with my iPhone anyways!