Motorola Droid News

Google Inc, the internet search giant has been planning for an all-out assault on the mobile-phone market via its own branded handset, which is called “Nexus One.” The new device will be one of the most advanced Smartphones present in the market with Android operating system and a large screen, and will directly challenge Apple’s iPhone supremacy in the sector.

Recently, the company has announced that the new phone has been distributed to employees to try out. It is reported that the handset would be sold via T-Mobile in US and unlocked version that can be capable of operating on any network, and will be available next month.

It is presumed that the device may steal the show from popular Android devices like the Motorola Droid, but can it stand tall against the Apple’s iPhone?

Specifications

According to sources, the new Nexus One will run Android 2.1 software and will be manufactured by HTC, exclusively for Google. It seems that the device is expected to feature onboard camera, Wi-Fi, GPRS, EDGE, 3G, Bluetooth, A-GPS (with Google Maps) and 3.5mm audio jack. Google has designed the entire user experience for the handset and it will be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz processor.

Nexus One on T-Mobile?

According to latest report, Google has announced that it will sell two versions of its own branded cellphone viz. one with a service contract with T-Mobile USA after Verizon refusal and another will be sold online and unlocked. It seems that the new device will be available as soon as January 5.

Can it challenge Apple’s iPhone?

Google name: Various analysts predict that the new device from Google will challenge Apple’s iPhone dominance just like IBM mainframe versus the Macintosh tussle. The phone is yet to be launched but, people expect that Google’s official backing and design would certainly be welcomed with an instant fan base. Just like Apple, Google has also a huge base of trusted fans who would be the future buyers.

SIM unlocked: In contrast to Apple, the “Nexus One” will be available SIM unlocked, which means that users could insert a SIM card from their favorite wireless service vendor. However, it is reported that Google has joined hands with T-Mobile, to subsidize the prices for US consumers who agree to a service contract.

Price factor: It is expected that to challenge the supremacy of Apple’s offering via AT&T subsidies, Google will also adopt aggressive pricing. Also, it is reported that the search giant will combine its “Google Voice” feature in the phone, which will provide phone service with unlimited free calls.

Applications: However, in one area, Google has to work hard, which is the number of applications. Apple has made available well over 100,000 apps, whereas Android is far behind with 12,000 apps. It is true that the iPhone maker has mastered the apps market and recently updated iTunes to stay competitive.

Meanwhile, Google had acquired Admob Inc, a maker of technology that integrates ads into thousands of mobile phone apps for $750 million. The acquisition will certainly help the company to improve its weak front in future.

Discussion

Many analysts predict that the Nexus One will not support for Microsoft Outlook users, who had played a key role in BlackBerry’s enterprise and SMB success. Also, by adopting Android for its own Smartphone, Google can irritate other Android Partners. Meanwhile, it seems that the new handset will satisfy the needs of business users, and will be paired with various Google Apps and services.

According to New York Reuters, Motorola Company will permit Chinese users who adopt Google Android operating system to set Baidu or other competitors as default networking search engines, not only limit to Google search.

Motorola declared to build partnership with Chinese biggest search engine and Google’s competitor Baidu last week, and promised to sign more search agreement. Before, Google cannot bear the networking attack and examine dispute from China, and threatened dropping out from China market.

Motorola still expressed, it will provide Chinese users with Android application shop ——install on its own brand mobile phones, this platform will be also installed in other brand mobile phones which obtain permit of this kind of shop.

This move ought to relieve parts of investors’ worry about Google dispute may be harmful to Motorola’s upturn in business, because it is up to Android and increase rapidly China mobile phone market to a great degree.    

Morgan Keegan’s analyst Tavis McCourt pointed out, the move eliminated the risk that Motorola’s success in China completely depends on Google. McCourt estimated, Motorola’s share in China mobile phone market has fall to 2 percent from quondam 20 percent in recent years. Christy Wyatt, Motorola’s vice CEO of software and service indicated, company expects to provide consumers with chances to choose search engines, and it also apply itself to provide consumers with various choices. Wyatt said, under some circumstances, the favored objects of carriers’ customers or single consumers are certainly different. But take Baidu for example, it is obviously a brand with very high popularity in China.

The vice CEO also expressed, except for Google, Motorola has provided other search choices for the Android mobile phones. For instance, company provided Yahoo search service for custom-made mobile phones of Latin America mobile carrier American Movil.

Wyatt did not give too many comments on Google present impasse, she pointed out, it will not do harm for Motorola business, as Android is an open source system, which means its distribution and development are not taken charge by Google.

She expressed, Google is bending itself to make strategies for providing applications and services, and they wish to see the achievement early.

As a cellphone wholesale droppshipper, cellphone-china.com is optimistic about Motorola’s new service. In this way, Motorola will appeal more consumers to buy its brand phones. As it allows users to search information according to their own minds, not only limit to Google. Users can select Baidu, Yahoo or other search engines freely. Consumers can user their mobile phones more comfortable.

During the economiccrisis, many companies had been bankrupted. This is a hard period for for cell phone sell too. They sell less mobile phones and get less profits. Motorola is not the exception. So Motorola is counting on Google juice to power its Motorola Mobile Phones and its future.

“The vast majority of our devices will be launched on the Android platform,” Motorola co-chief executive Sanjay Jha said on Thursday after the biggest US handset maker surprised Wall Street by reporting a small quarterly net profit. “We are very open to other options here, and we are engaged in exploring other options, but the vast majority will be Android,” Jha told financial analysts in a conference call.

Motorola released its third-quarter earnings a day after unveiling the second in a line of smartphones powered by Google’s Android operating system seen as key to turning around the company’s flagging fortunes.

The Schaumburg, Illinois-based Motorola posted a net profit of 12 million dollars, or one cent per share, in the quarter compared with a net loss of 397 million dollars in the same period a year ago.

Revenue continued to slide, however, falling 27 percent in the quarter to 5.45 billion dollars.Revenue in the struggling Mobile Devices division declined 46 percent to 1.7 billion dollars.

Mobile Devices managed to narrow its operating loss however to 183 million dollars from 840 million dollars in the same three months last year and 253 million dollars in the previous quarter.Motorola Replica shipped 13.6 million handsets in the third quarter as its share of the mobile phone market fell below five percent to 4.7 percent.

Revenue for the Home and Networks Mobility segment, which includes digital entertainment devices and other products, fell 15 percent to two billion dollars. Revenue for Enterprise Mobility Solutions fell 13 percent to 1.8 billion dollars.

Motorola forecast fourth-quarter earnings of seven to nine cents per share, better than the six cents per share expected by Wall Street analysts.The better-than-expected earnings and the optimistic outlook helped send Motorola’s share price 9.80 percent higher on Wall Street on Thursday to 8.74 dollars.Motorola’s results, which were boosted in part by aggressive cost-cutting measures, came a day after the company unveiled a new smartphone with Verizon Wireless called the Droid.

The Droid, which will cost 200 dollars and is being touted as a challenger to Apple’s iPhone, is powered by Android 2.0 software, Google’s next-generation mobile phone operating system.

The Droid notably includes a new GPS navigation system from Google that has many of the features of a traditional standalone GPS navigation device such as 3D map views and turn-by-turn voice guidance.

Motorola released another Android-powered smartphone, the Cliq, in September. The Cliq is heavily geared toward social networking and younger users with features built around sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.Jha, who was brought in last year to turn around the struggling mobile phone division, underlined the importance of the new smartphones in a statement.

“The introductions of our new products powered by Android are important milestones as we begin to address the mobilization of the Internet and the growing demand for modern smartphones,” he said.”Next year, we will continue to expand our smartphone portfolio and deliver improved financial results,” said Jha, a former Qualcomm executive who is chief executive of Replica Motorola Phone’s Mobile Devices division.

Motorola enjoyed success with its popular Razr phone launched in 2005 but has been losing ground since to Apple and Research in Motion, maker of the Blackberry, as well as to other major cell phone manufacturers such as Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.

Motorola also announced on Thursday that Edward Fitzpatrick, its acting chief financial officer, had been named permanent CFO.

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