It was nearly a year ago that Google bought Motorola making it a potential maker of smartphones capable of competing with Apple. Today, that possibility, is quickly turning into a reality.
As if Apple and the iPhone don’t have enough trouble and competition in the mobile market already. From the newcomer in the market, Microsoft’s Windows 8, to the leading mobile champion, Android. Apple is fighting vehemently to remain a brand worth it’s nearly $520/per share current stock price. Things are about to get even harder though.
Recently reports have it that Google / Motorola is hard at work to make an iPhone destroyer of their own and is making a new line of smartphones to be released in 2013. The Google / Motorola smartphone development is currently known as the “X phone.”
The development of th “X phone” is almost in perfect timing with the shifting market today. Not only is Google of course trying to remove iPhone off the shelves, but when one thinks “Android” today in 2012, Samsung almost becomes analogous with it the word. Surely such control over the Android brand by the Samsung name has never say well with Google. The “X phone” is another way to compete in Google’s name taking top spot when one thinks “Android”.
A Gigaom blurb gives a rough leak of some expected features to appear on the X-phone: “reports suggest a possible bendable display, ceramics for the casing and some type of gesture recognition.” Those closest to the leaked source (first provided by the WSJ) say that Google and Motorola are looking to design a phone that has high quality photo/video capability, also with features capable of taking panoramic shots. There have been some issues already encountered with reduced battery life from the lofty goals (the details of which were not discolsed), but developments are still underway, even as imaging and gesture-recognition features from a recent Google acquisition (Viewdle) are being added.