By Greg Mills
When Google moved to buy Motorola they proclaimed that the purchase was to counter Apple and boost the patent portfolio behind the Android OS. They also maintained their intention to keep Android OS open source and support the various handset makers that have built the hardware behind the success of Android.
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By Greg Mills
The tech industry is collectively scratching its head trying to figure out just what the Google purchase of Motorola Mobility will mean. The other Android handset makers are now worried Google will favor Motorola with advanced features and that they will be left out of the loop. Uncertainty in business is a powerful thing.
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By Greg Mills
The patent war against Android has taken an interesting turn. Motorola Mobility has declined in market cap valuation to the point Google snapped it up in an acquisition described by both sides as amicable. According to the “Wall Street Journal,” the oldest of the handset companies, with a deep patent portfolio, sold for US$12.5 billion. Google intends to allow Motorola to continue business but with the Motorola patents in house, Google hopes to hold off Apple.
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By Greg Mills
Apple is certainly on a roll. As the stock market has gyrated the last few days due to the downgrade of US Treasury debt, Apple replaced Mobile/Exon as the most valuable company in the world by market cap. Over the last week or so, Apple got Samsung’s new touch screen tablet banned in Australia and Europe. HTC took a hit in the US International Trade Commission and may also face import bans on its Android handsets in the US market.
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By Greg Mills
The legal problems the Android OS is facing over patent infringement is certain to help alternative smartphone platforms. The large market share Android now holds may soon be divided into market segments going to surviving smartphone platforms. If Apple manages to crush or seriously stumble Google’s legally indefensible Android platform, the iOS is sure to be the biggest winner. iOS developers will come out on top.
Read MoreEd Zander, Motorola CEO’s media presentation is currently underway. It is available via Windows Media Player or Real Player. While the company has announced a slew of new products, noticeably missing is mention of the much-anticipated iTunes phone. Zander originally said that the Motorola iTunes phone will be launched this summer.
Read MoreMotorola canceled the unveiling of a new iTunes phone on Thursday after the company got “a last-minute message from a wireless carrier or carriers,” according to the Chicago Tribune. “Motorola had previewed the iTunes phone to the media earlier this week, with the intent of publicly announcing it Thursday… The iTunes phone that was to debut Thursday has a display screen akin to the iPod. It is capable of holding up to 100 songs.
Read MoreMobileTracker reports that the Motorola E1060 phone that was introduced on Monday is not the much-anticipated iTunes phone. “While iTunes was not mentioned in Motorola’s E1060 announcement, major news organizations (such as Reuters) rolled with the iTunes story Monday afternoon.
Read MoreMotorola unveiled several new mobile phones at the 3GSM event in France today, including the first phone to support Apple’s iTunes. The Motorola E1060 features a 1.3 megapixel camera for still photos or video, a VGA camera for 2-way video conferencing, Bluetooth, audio and video streaming with playback support for MPEG4 (AAC), WMV/WMA and MP3 files.
Read MoreA Motorola executive on Thursday previewed a new iTunes-compatible mobile phone during a keynote presentation at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. “It syncs with a computer and the iTunes Music Store like an iPod does, and incorporates the iPod interface for navigating and playing digital music, said Ron Garriques, a Motorola executive vice president. The phone is the first of many Motorola devices that will support iTunes this year, said Garriques.
Read MoreApple and Motorola could soon introduce the mobile phone the two companies are developing to play music purchased from Apple’s iTunes Music Store. “We’ve said we have something coming on this in the first half of 2005 and we’re definitely on schedule for that. Hopefully you’ll be able to see more about it soon,” Eddy Cue, vice president of applications at Apple, told Forbes. “What we’ve talked about is a something that is valuable for the mass market.
Read MoreWe’ve dug up a handful of new details on Apple and Motorola’s iTunes partnership, which the two companies announced late Monday. The New York Times reports that the new version of iTunes that will ship on the phones will be called “iTunes Mobile Music” and that iTunes users will be able to transfer a dozen to a few dozen songs to their phone.
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