Motorola And Their Social Network Android Phone. They’ll Probably Screw It Up

by Jason Wilk on October 20, 2008

  • Motorola has been recruiting around 350 people and pumping $50M into developing a series of Android phones.
  • Their first phone, which is set to unveil early next year is geared to be social network intensive.
  • The team heading up the project right now is the team from Good Technology, the mobile e-mail company Motorola bought in 2006 that pissed off thousands with their high subscription fees and an app which couldn’t be deleted from the phone. Great.
  • For some reason Motorola is excited about standardization for phones, but I just think they no longer know what they are doing.
  • If you are going to make a social network phone, I would create it around Facebook since it uses real names. It should have a separate address book for social network friends that can be messaged or IM’d as opposed to sending an SMS. It should also feature one-click calling to friend’s cell phone or VoIP. Now my address book becomes my social network, and it puts me in direct communication with friends around the world that I avoid long distance calling/SMS fees. We have seen social network phones fail in the past though (cough cough..Helio)

TC, Business Week, jkOnTheRun, GigaOM, Silicon Alley Insider, OStatic blogs, CNET News

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