Motorola, wth are you doing?

[NikolaeVarius]

Moto has the innovation down, just not the full perfect execution. The Droid X was one of the most perfect Android launches and Android phones ever(Incredible build quality, excellent performance, exceptional battery life, decent camera, top tier video recording, best signal reception of any Android phone, best call quality due to triple noise canceling mics, 6.5GB of app storage when the standard for Android phones at the time was under 500MB), and it was on Verizon. The thing that stopped it from being absolutely flawless was being plagued by an annoying Moto Blur and locked bootloader.

Also adding to that, I think if the screen was AMOLED or some sort of next gen screen THEN it would be the best phone ever created.

 

[s44]

You're talking hardware stuff. When has Moto ever shown the potential to be a software company?

 

[smartpatrol]

http://www.itproportal.com/2011/03/25/motorola-ditch-android-os-revive-arm-partnership/

Looks like more rumors going around about Motorola moving away from Android:

Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said last year in the company's Q1 earnings conference call that "Owning your OS is important; provided you have an ecosystem, you have all the services and you have an ability and the scale to execute on keeping that OS at the leading edge".

Article also suggests that Motorola would build a platform based on Linaro, and that they may again produce their own ARM chips.

 

[alent1234]

That's one way to interpret it. Another is that companies are merely trying to get a slice of the Android pie for free. Patent trolling, it's a(unfortunately) legitimate business.

nothing has been proven in court yet, but last i read Oracle presented evidence that Google copied and pasted parts of the java sdk or something like that into android. wouldn't surprise me since it's classic google. take the work of others, commoditize it and make money off it yourself

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

It would be dumb for Motorola to even try to create a whole new operating system. Maybe they don't like that they have to put their own skin on top of Android? and they will have the ability to work on the underlying OS.

 

[s44]

nothing has been proven in court yet, but last i read Oracle presented evidence that Google copied and pasted parts of the java sdk or something like that into android. wouldn't surprise me since it's classic google.

This is pure debunked FUD.

As far as Moto, hah! I heard MeeGo is available.

 

[NaOH]

http://www.itproportal.com/2011/03/25/motorola-ditch-android-os-revive-arm-partnership/

Looks like more rumors going around about Motorola moving away from Android:



Article also suggests that Motorola would build a platform based on Linaro, and that they may again produce their own ARM chips.

Sounds like they wanna be like Apple.

 

[s44]

Sounds like they wanna be like Apple.

So did Nokia--how'd that work out for them?

Apple has been a software company for a long, long time. These manufacturers haven't.

However, this doesn't necessarily mean dumping the biggest smartphone platform. They could just be dabbling like Samsung's Bada.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

they just need to make good phones. smart or dumbphones it doesn't matter.