14 DAY TRIAL // Motorola is now part of Google, and has been so for several months now, but no devices that would actually show influence from the Mountain View-based Internet Giant have arrived on shelves so far.
Those who were looking for such smartphones to be released on shelves might have to wait at least another half a year, the latest reports on the matter suggest.
In fact, this is what CFO Patrick Pichette said during Google's Q3 2012 earnings call on Thursday, suggesting that several more months are needed before such devices reach the final stage of development.
“Look, we're really pleased with Motorola's progress in its first 150 days. As indicated in our public filings, our team has made a lot of operational changes, we harmonized and narrowed the product portfolio, [undertook] streamlining of software operations, and we scaled back the markets in which we operate,” Patrick Pichette said, according to The Verge.
“But that said, we're just at the beginning of the Motorola-Google story, and we should expect, as I mentioned before, results from this segment to be quite variable for quite a while yet.”
“Remember that we inherited an entire product pipeline where hardware business cycles are typically 12 to 18 months,” he also stated.
The fact that Motorola’s latest smartphones were brought to shelves with the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on board, while rival companies had already launched Jelly Bean-powered smartphones, comes as proof that Google hasn’t yet managed to fully absorb the mobile phone maker.
Next year, however, we might see Motorola’s devices being the first with new platform releases, something that users have been waiting for for a long time now.
Hopefully, this also means that there will be no more devices left out of the update schedule even if users were desperately asking for new software on them. Owners of Motorola’s DROID Bionic, for example, have been waiting for an upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich for about a year now.