(Mobile Phones News) – Motorola is working to develop Google’s Android OS mobile phone to be sold directly to consumers, like Nexus One. All we called Nexus one as Google Nexus one. Will Motorola give name Moto Nexus or something else? But there are considerable chances for it to be the Nexus Two.
On a conference call with analysts Thursday, co-CEO Sanjay Jha confired that, company plan to launch 20 smartphones this year including “one direct to consumer device with Google.”
Motorola expects the market for mid-to-high-priced feature phones to “meaningfully decline throughout the year,” Jha said in the SeekingAlpha transcript, and they’ll fall back on manufacturing partners to make lower-end phones.
Jha’s observation suggests Google considers the Nexus One more than an experiment and is trying to replicate some of the integrated hardware and software model seen at competitors like Apple, Palm and RIM.
Motorola faces challenges from other Google-powered device. The Droid, for example, enjoyed its status as the flagship Android device for a little more than a month before interest and focus shifted to Google’s own Nexus One.
Motorola shipped 2 million Android smartphones during the fourth quarter of last year, and they expect to ship 11 to 14 million next year, Jha said. The US will “dominate” Motorola smartphone sales next year, Jha said.
Motorola reported a fourth-quarter profit of $142 million, or 6 cents a share, compared with a loss of $3.66 billion, or $1.61, a year earlier. Profit, excluding some costs, was 9 cents a share. Analysts predicted 8 cents. Sales declined 20 percent to $5.72 billion, missing the $5.96 billion analysts projected.