Motorola to work with Google to sell the next direct to consumer Android phone

By on Jan 28, 2010 at 2:01 PM
Rumor January 28, 2010

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In its Q4 2009 financial conference call with analysts, Motorola’s Co-CEO Sanjay Jha confirmed that Motorola will be bypassing the traditional telco route and working with Google to sell an Android handset directly to consumers, similar to HTC and the Nexus One. This handset will be one of twenty smartphones that Motorola hopes to offer in 2010 as it attempts to shake off its lagging performance. Despite selling twelve million handsets in Q4 2009, two million of which were Android-based, Motorola continues to slide slowly downward with handset sales falling from $2.35 billion to $1.8 billion, a 22% year over year decline. Motorola also anticipates a first quarter loss of up to 3 cents per share which is far below the 3 cent per share profit expected by analysts. As of the writing of this post, Motorola’s stock has fallen 11% from yesterday’s close.

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  • gspot

    Opus One ~~> check into it “) Nuff said

  • webby

    Yeah Moto, that worked out so well for Goog with the N1, you’re just gonna order up a plate of that!

    Maroons! No wonder your stock has been in decline for many moons … And I say this wishing Moto well, having had owned several Startacs for some years, and now own a Droid, and like it.

  • ep

    I have stock in MOT…not surprised they are down now and I am losing some money…but I am long term with this company. I think they are making the turn around and it started with Droid.

  • Dave Brown

    I’ve had the MotoDroid since the day it came out on 6 November and really like it overall but if the thing continues to lose it’s mind over the known issue of the Corporate Account settings that I have to reenter every couple of days (it’s on a streak now of a couple weeks since the last one!) then it’s going back and won’t likely ‘go back’ to Droid, which really sucks because outside of that its such a useful device. I’ve read of many on forums that are having the same issue, not matter the rev of 2.0 or 2.0.1. I don’t care how many times I ‘reset to factory’ that the Support guy tells me to do or the swapout of the phone (twice already), if the problem is in the OS, it’s always going to be there lurking to pop it’s head again.

    When they make the next version to sell direct, if they don’t fix the damn problem it’s still going to be there.

    • Danny

      Yes my employees have that same problem with Exchange and their Droid’s.

      Every week like clockwork… I have to go and re-enter their mail settings.

      I thought it was just us.

      • Brad

        Hmm, this is the first I’ve heard about that bug. That’s good to know, because my company has client users using Droids. You might want to check out the third party TouchDown app. It offers a lot more features than the built-in Exchange support Android has, and in my opinion is well worth the $19.99 it costs in the Android Marketplace. You can download a fully functional 5-day free trial version to try it out and see if you like it or not.

        I work in IT support for a company that hosts numerous AD domains and Exchange environments for our clients, and one thing I absolutely love about it is the fact that it supports multiple Exchange profiles, so I can keep my own Exchange account intact by just creating a new profile when I need to test an account for a client. Also, it has support for tasks, which I don’t believe Android’s native Exchange support does, and it will work with Exchange servers that require extra security features, like security PIN codes to access the data.

        Yeah, yeah, I know what you’re saying, “but all those features should be there from the factory without third party addons.” I would tend to agree. However, one thing I love about Android is the fact that what it doesn’t have, somebody else can add on with extra software. Ultimately, I believe the platform will mature and acquire more and better features like this, but in the meantime, there are workarounds. Even Windows Mobile offers this capability, to a point. With the iPhone, slick as it is, all you get is what Apple will give you. With their stupid app store development rules, I don’t see them allowing anyone to write a better mail app anytime soon, because it would directly compete with the device’s built-in mail app. And yes, their mail app, though it doesn’t lose settings at random intervals, needs lots and lots of help in the feature department. To say it’s severely lacking in features would be stating the obvious.

      • Dave Brown

        I might give TouchDown another try. I tried it early on (the second week or so in November) and it didn’t seem to fix the issue, still ‘setting drops’, or maybe there were other issues going on in parallel. I’m fine with paying the mere $20 if it really FIXES the problem.

        I suffered through the iPOS, otherwise know as the iPhone 3G, for about 14 months. Five phone swaps later and finally some punk ass stealing the ‘sixth’ one off me and I was done. The only ‘justice’ would have been selling the ‘no contract’ phone to someone with iPhone lust and making enough money off the sale to pay my get out of AT&T jail free termination liability, pay for the Droid and have a couple $s left over. Why was the iPhone an iPOS? I could write ad nauseum on it but suffice to say the whole ‘simultaneous voice and data’ was nice … for the rare occasion the piece of shit could stay in the network or not drop calls constantly or that the battery could hold a charge more than an hour. When you can’t make, receive or maintain a call consistently, the phone is not a toy to text your skateboarding friends or watch YouTube videos on but is supposed to be a ‘business tool’ the only thing that looks a like a ‘tool’ is the person holding the phone because it’s nothing but a piece of shit.

        All those AT&T fanboys and girls have fun, I’d much rather be ‘limited’ on my Verizon phone and do voice or data and have it work reliably and consistently than have a piece of crap.

  • StevenGlansburg

    MOTOfail

    • Eloy

      spammer

      • Homer Simpson

        Mmmmmmmmmm…….spaaaammm
        I think I want fried spam.

  • http://www.dressyourmobile.com GM

    like that worked with the nexus, people want a store front to demo the phone and customer service reps that can help them in person

  • http://www.mobilepornhub.com Mobile Porn Hub

    Details of this deal aside, I love how Android has just spread itself into every nook and cranny of the tech world like an unstoppable virus.

    This is how you get marketshare booooy!

  • T Mac

    MotoHomos.

  • Luke in DC

    Maybe when they stop making hideous looking utililarian phones, people will actually buy them. Case in point, the Motorola Razr. Slick phone. No one had seen anything like it, Motorola sold a bundle. The Droid is a freaking ugly brick. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a die-hard Google fanboy. I just think they could have made it look sleeker or nicer. Or if they were going for the whole “droid” look, they should have made it more steampunk or a cyberpunk look.

  • rudy

    If it has the same specs as the nexus one and comes with tmo 3g and a keyboard i’m sold.

  • mi_canuck
  • Carlos Santana DVX

    What, oh no! I can’t take another round of a bunch of whiners complaining how $500 is too much for an unlocked smartphone! Please! I wanna sign more of my life away to a carrier and get my phone for dirt cheap. Please! Say it ain’t so!

  • QUESTION123

    So to clarify, this new device or variant or whatever can use AT&T 3G but not Tmobile 3G, right?

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