Motorola Working on Android iDEN Phone

Motorola has already thrown in its few remaing chips with Android, with solid pictures of their first device bubbling up recently. Apparently wholly-owned Israeli subsidiary, Mirs, is working on the Android-powered Opus 1, which will be fairly limited in that data access will only be via Wi-Fi, and voice will be supported through iDEN networks. We’ve seen Android crammed into netbooks and other smartphones, but the whole spectrum of mobility hasn’t really been explored yet; maybe Motorola (NYSE: MOT) will find a good niche in industrial setting mobile handsets and pave the way with a custom-tailored Android build. The Opus 1 should be arriving sometime in 2010.

As an interesting side-note, Mirs was the first company to make a Kosher cell phone.

[via Globes]