Motorola has announced plans to boost it’s already strong Android team by more than 600%, bringing the total from 50 to a staggering 350 workers in the following months. However, as Motorola is key component of the Open Handset Alliance, this comes as no surprise.
The coming months will tell whether Motorola’s high stakes venture into these news markets will help rebound it from it’s previous struggles in the handset market. Once a key leader, Motorola has taken drastic tumble down the mountainous handset market.
Hopefully, Motorola’s endeavors will pay off, and we will see increasing healthy competition in the smart phone market.
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October 14th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
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