14 DAY TRIAL // Mobile phone maker Motorola entered the Android segment of the market only a few months ago, with the launch of Motorola CLIQ / DEXT and has soon become one of the most popular vendors in the area, as its Motorola DROID / MILESTONE device topped the rankings in the market at the end of last year. As soon as 2010 kicked off, the company also announced the launch of a new device, the Motorola BACKFLIP, and it has recently unveiled plans to launch a Motorola MOTOROI in Korea (most probably in other markets too), but it seems that it won't stop there.
During a recent interview with Cnet Asia, Spiros Nikolakopoulos, vice president and general manager for Asia Pacific and International Distribution for Motorola's Mobile Devices business, has unveiled a few more details on the company's plans for the ongoing year, including the fact that it will launch a number of 20 or 30 devices powered by Google's Android operating system. Most of you might have known already that Motorola intends to play big with Android during 2010, yet now all the numbers have been officially unveiled, it seems.
“There will be between 20 and 30 smartphones globally and, at this moment, all of them will run Android. Naturally, not all will be available everywhere as it depends on the company's partnership with the various telco operators in each country. For non-smartphone models, they will run either Brew or the Motorola's own operating system,” CNET Asia states. Nothing more to be added here, except maybe for the fact that we'll eagerly wait for each of the handsets to arrive on the market, to see whether the company can deliver something more powerful than DROID.
In addition, it should be noted the MOTOROI was set to arrive in China too, but got delayed due to Google's issues with the Chinese government, but it will eventually be launched there, and in select markets too. At the same time, we should also note that Nikolakopoulos also unveiled a few details on how Motorola categorizes its Android phones. It seems that there are “three lines of Android devices: Those that run MotoBlur; those that have some customization but which remain largely stock Android; and those without any sort of modification to the software,” the news site notes.