Motorola looking to Google's Android for help
Motorola is turning to Google for help in righting its troubled ship. The phone maker is streamlining its operating systems for its handsets, and Google's Android OS will be one of three platforms it uses, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
For business smart phones, Moto will work off of Windows Mobile while it continues to use its proprietary OS for its basic phones. For the expanding mid-tier of multimedia and consumer-focused smart phones, the kind of showcase phones increasingly popular with consumers, Motorola's new CEO Sanjay Jha is throwing Moto's weight behind Android.
This focus allows Motorola to eliminate three other platforms that were apparently making things more complicated than they had to be. Now whether this will help the company turn things around remains to be seen. Motorola's market share has slid in the face of rising competition and it hasn't come up with a breakout hit a la the RAZR.
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