Motorola and HTC Go All in With Android

Motorola is finally entering the smartphone market in Q4 of this year just in time for the Christmas season. Motorola's Co-CEO, Sanjay Jha, has said Motorola will be pulling back on low end phones and devoting more resources to the smartphone market. Analysts should get their first look at the new mobile phones in mid-September with the phones ready for market by Halloween.

Motorola has also devoted the lion's share of its mobile phone development team to Android. Also, another Android phone will be hitting stores this Wednesday. HTC's MyTouch, AKA the G2, is set for release throughout North America among other countries such as Taiwan, Thailand and Russia (the HTC MyTouch is often referred to as the HTC Magic in other countries).

Android based phones are still a small fraction of the iPhone. Still, one can't still wonder if Android will become a serious rival to the Mac Mobile OS X.

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