Disqus
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 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]
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Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
