Motorola getting ready to play with Android

By James Kendrick | Monday, October 20, 2008 | 9:43 AM CT | 4 comments | Tweet This

The T-Mobile G1 phone has gotten surprisingly good marks for a first effort with a new operating system and has captured a lot of attention. The Google-influenced Android platform has a lot of OEMs paying close attention with the obvious excitement over the G1. Handset giant Motorola is reported to getting an Android-based handset ready for distribution in 2009. Motorola has been talking up an Android phone of late to anyone who will listen and is touting it as a social smartphone for the 16 to 30-something crowd. They are claiming it will be tightly integrated with big social networks like Facebook and MySpace, among others. They also state it will have an "iPhone-like touch screen" but are not tossing any photos around of the phone.

(via Business Week)

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Comments (4)

If only I could have Verizons network, Apples UI, and Androids openness. Sigh, a man can dream.

Jasen — 5:10 AM on October 20, 2008 Reply
hmm, i hope any motorola android phone will be operator agnostic…

turn.self.off — 5:20 AM on October 20, 2008 Reply
Google-influenced Android platform? Understatement of the year?

Oliver — 6:22 AM on October 20, 2008 Reply
Android = Linux + Java

Andy — 10:26 AM on October 20, 2008 Reply