14 DAY TRIAL // Mobile phone maker Motorola has just confirmed that it is working on a handset that will arrive on the market via Google's web store. Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha stated recently during a conference on the company's financial results for the fourth quarter of the last year that the handset vendor was working on “at least one direct-to-consumer device with Google.”
On thing that is certain here is that Motorola CEO's words reinforce previous rumors regarding the possibility that “Nexus Two,” or the second Android-based mobile phone that would be sold via Google's web store, will come from this company. Moreover, this also adds to a word from Google that a future, enterprise version of Nexus One might arrive with a QWERTY keyboard, something that enthusiasts already connected with rumored Motorola phones.
In the end, this is a great thing for Motorola, one should agree. Only one year ago, the company was not having the best times it could have, and the launch of its first Android-based devices have meant a lot for its revival. During the fourth quarter, when both the Motorola DROID and CLIQ were available on the market, the company sold 2 million Android-based smartphones, marking its transition towards a handset vendor focused on smartphones, it seems.
“We are just at the beginning of our transition to a smartphone company, and we have a lot of work ahead of us,” Sanjay Jha stated. However, the outlook for the first quarter of the ongoing year is not a very optimistic one, as Motorola expects slower sales than in Q4 2009. Even so, they will bring more phones powered by Google's platform to the market, including the Motorola Backflip, as well as other phones that were already announced for launch in Asia and which are also expected to arrive in other markets around the world, such as MOTOROI.