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In the company’s quarterly earnings call, Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha confirmed that he is reducing the number of cell phone platforms that his company supports.  Symbian OS and the UIQ user interface, as seen on devices like the Motorola Z10, will no longer be used except for devices that the company has already committed to [...]

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According to a Wall Street Journal story, Motorola’s new CEO, Sanjay Jha, will announce tomorrow that his company will focus on the Android platform for its top end handsets.  While Moto will continue to use its own platform for lower end devices, and will also continue to use Windows Mobile for some of its smartphones, [...]

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This isn’t really directly Android related, but it is interesting to see that Microsoft has just posted a job description on a Seattle job-hunting site that describes a position as a lead for its “Skymarket” project for Windows Mobile 7.
If Apple, Google, and Microsoft are all going to have integrated app stores, it seems likely [...]

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Information week is reporting that analyst firm J. Gold Associates is saying that it expects Nokia’s newly open sourced S60 UI and Symbian OS and Google’s Android are going merge starting in the next “three to six months.”
J. Gold states that the merger makes sense because they are both open source and the move would [...]

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Bill Hughes of market research firm In-Stat is predicting that 17.1 million Google Android OS based devices will be sold in 2009, nearly double what he is predicting for world-wide Apple iPhone sales. He believes that the Chinese market will be the driving force behind Android adoption, with its 1 billion potential cell phone [...]

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