Dont Get Your Hopes Up for a Motorola NEXUS

I would like to see a Moto Nexus but suspect that the project must be so far along that this decision was made long ago....

sent from my Cyanogenmodded X

 

I'd still like to see a Moto Nexus personally. Mostly because they haven't had one yet, and as I stated yesterday...Moto is the only company to stick by Android and not venture into Windows Phone territory in this generation. I feel that Google would be crazy, even with this buyout, not to throw Moto a bone based on that fact alone. Besides, their whole DROID line sells incredibly well. Market it (for Verizon) as the DROID Nexus, people will rush to buy it since most have heard good things about the Nexus S. And those of us in this community would fall all over it. HTC and Samsung have had their field day with Nexus devices already, albeit with no release on Verizon. Moto needs some loving in that department. Or maybe I just like their build quality over other companies? Funny thing is, I'm more of an HTC fanboy than Moto.

Obviously, this would have to be for the 2012 device as the 2011 is supposedly being run by HTC?

 

The ICS Nexus has been in development for roughly 6-7 months MINIMUM according to Rubin. I can assure you're they're not going to purchase MotoMobil and then rush out a less than superb phone just so that Motorola can have the next Nexus device. While they may have been considering the acquisition around the time of the manufacturer selection my bet is going to be that it WON'T be Motorola for the very reason I listed above. Let's be realistic, Google bought Moto in large part because of the patents they hold, afterall, if you look up the names on the patent for a "radio telephone system" TWO motorola employees are listed. They also bought them because they turn a profit though. They change things up now and have Moto put out a Nexus in 4 months and risk devaluing a company they just purchased? I don't think so.

 

I pretty much agree, although I am probably more of a Motorola fan. I was hoping for a Motorola Nexus at some point. Funny thing is I think that Google's acquisition of Motorola makes this less likely than before. I doubt we will see a Moto Nexus any time soon.

Maybe if we are lucky we will see a Motorola Nexus-6 (Droid Replicant) that would be cool.

 

I'm starting to look forward to the Bionic next month, then maybe the Moto-Nexus will be out next time my contract comes up. :icon_ banana: That would seem to be the most likely time frame.

 

I got "we select the manufacturer of the Nexus device 9-12 months in advance." I think all this meant was that we can clearly assume the next Nexus is NOT a Moto phone but I'd be willing the bet what falls after that will be a Moto product. Nexus whatever drops this December and then right around oh say Sept2012 when iPhone whatever is about to drop the Droid Nexus drops (I kinda like the way that sounds too)

 

I thought that the Nexus phones were done by more than one manufacturer sometimes for some reason, like cpus from X, an Amoled screen from Samsung, etc etc? In any case, I personally thing Google wont give Moto exclusivity nor favoritism for the same reason Microsoft doesn't.... like, buy IBM then make Windows Operating Systems exclusive to IBM build PC parts. Android (and Windows) marketshare dominance is fueled by the fact that they can run on any manufacturers hardware out there. Which is the exact opposite of Apple, which is why Apples Mac lost all its marketshare to Windows, and Why Iphone is losing all its marketshare to Android, and so on and so forth. I dunno, it seems like the obvious sensible thing is to not **** where you eat. They would paint themselves into a corner pissing off Sony HTC and Samsung and sending those guys running to WP7. It wouldn't end well for Google and Android squeezing the lifeblood out of their OS by doing that. Seems like common sense to me. But everyone seems to be assuming they are going to give Moto all these perks and exclusive stuff to their own detriment, so maybe I'm the crazy one.