Defecting from Android? the Motorola story
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According to a Wall Street Journal interview with Sanjay Jha, Motorola’s Co-CEO and head of the mobile division, the company is open to working with Windows Phone 7 Series. The interview touch mostly on the Motorola’s ideas regarding sharing it’s MOTOBLUR OS Skin with it’s set top box division. Has MOTO gone nuts?
It was just a few short months ago that Motorola was reeling from the downward spiral of Windows Mobile and their stagnant RAZR line. Once king of the hill, the RAZR phone remained largely unchanged and slowly became less relevant in the market. With Android, the company was able to get a major smartphone on the Verizon network, which pumped money into marketing the device. The Moto Droid currently sits as the best Android phone on the nation’s biggest network.
Perhaps Jha has learned companies can’t sit still and be happy with success. Now that Moto has found its way back into relevancy, the company is keeping its eyes out for the next wave. Heck, Jha was quoted as saying if he had the R&D budget, he’d build his own darn mobile OS. When asked pointedly about having the Microsoft OS on Motorola phones, Jha said, “I’m open to it…I think I need diversity in our portfolio.”
From what we’ve seen of Windows Phone 7 Series, the OS looks promising. Kudos for Motorola for not pulling a RAZR move yet again.
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