Google acquired Motorola after spending a hefty amount of $13 billion back in May last year. However, since then the search engine giant has not been able to produce even a single smartphone with Motorola that is running the Android mobile operating system. In fact the latest smartphone that Google has developed recently was Nexus 4 and it was a joint venture between the Mountain View-based company and South Korean electronics manufacturer LG. However, this does not mean at all that Google has lost faith in Motorola as the design chief of the smartphone manufacturing company, Jim Wicks, has divulged while talking to PC Mag that both the companies are working together on multiple devices powered by stock Android with less overlays for quite some time now and they are expected to make a debut sometime later this year.
“We’ve been spending the past eight months on this next generation of phones, and we’ve all seen positive feedback and collaboration around things.” Wicks was not the only person, who has gave us an idea about the new products from Motorola and recently at the Dive Into Mobile conference Google’s Chairman, Eric Schmidt has also promised that soon some amazing products from the mobile phone making company will come our way. Schmidt said, “They have a new set of products, which are phenomenal. Very, very impressive.” He added that, “Think of it as phones-plus.”
Wicks statement perhaps did not generate much hype about the future products of Motorola, but the way Schmidt has described the upcoming smartphones of the company, it has certainly made many eager about the forthcoming devices. According to Wicks, both Google and Motorola are all set to launch the mobile phones that will run stock Android on products with smaller form-factors, quoting that a sweet-spot is required in the middle of the display size. “I think ‘just right’ is important, and we’re designing so we don’t disappoint those people.”
Product design is not the only thing that Motorola is about to change, as the company also has plans to revisit its approach of launching multiple devices through different telecom carriers. “We are going to try to drive a more singular expression of our brand across multiple carriers.” Nevertheless, changing the design and approach does not mean that Motorola is not going to make Razr and Droid handsets any more, as Wicks has made it absolutely clear they will continue to develop these handsets in the future as well.
Source: 9to5Google, AllThingsD
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