Motorola China has a bunch of smartphones on tap this year

China is one of Motorola's last safe havens for Windows Mobile-powered devices, but even the Far East is falling to the inevitable onslaught of little green robots -- one need look no further than the XT701, MT710, and XT800 for evidence of that. That leads us to believe that the company's 2010 haul of smartphones for China will be primarily Android-based -- particularly in light of China Mobile's commitment to it through Open Mobile System -- expanding on comments in Korea this week by Moto's GM of the mobile devices business that there will "probably another four or five [smartphones] later" in the region following the recent announcements of the MT710 and XT800 and the upcoming launch of the XT701. Considering that China continues to be a stronghold for Moto, we're not surprised to see so much of the company's product R&D dollars go that way -- as long as the rest of the world ends up getting some trickle-down benefit, of course.

[nelagster Posted Jan 18th 2010 11:28AM]

I wonder if Google will disable search on their phones ;)

[pointdexler Posted Jan 18th 2010 7:48PM]

@nelagster
Google won't but the China firewall will block it...

[JeremyBenthem Posted Jan 18th 2010 11:37AM]

Droid, iPhone, Pre

[Edobe Posted Jan 18th 2010 11:48AM]

@JeremyBenthem
file folder, spiral notebook, egg.

[Jvalen Posted Jan 18th 2010 11:45AM]

honestly think they should just rerelease the razr in china :o

[NewL Posted Jan 18th 2010 11:56AM]

http://www.rethink-wireless.com/article.asp?article_id=2442

Interestingly enough, Android might have a hard time in China if Google and the government can't sort out things...

[bullshitexpresscom Posted Jan 18th 2010 12:27PM]

@NewL Isn't it open source? (just asking). It makes sense to drop MinMo for Android just for the savings in license fees.

[meepmeep Posted Jan 18th 2010 6:31PM]

@NewL

Google seems to censor sensitive content in at least South Korea, Italy, and India as well. The whole fiasco last week was not much more than a gesture by Google toward Hillary.

So if Google and the American government can get to a state where they're happy not dominating a foreign market, there wouldn't be problems for anybody.

[NeoSeer Posted Jan 18th 2010 1:51PM]

And???

[relinahtyles Posted Jan 18th 2010 3:01PM]

Actually xt720 is like a baby bro of xt710 which has 2 brothers reaching china as well. So at least, we could be sure that android is reaching asia now. More Details of the trio: http://bit.ly/motorola-xt710-rest-of-the-gang

[meepmeep Posted Jan 18th 2010 6:26PM]

"as long as the rest of the world ends up getting some trickle-down benefit, of course. "

North America gets Apple, and judging by the comments on Engadget (not to mention some articles), that's all we need.

[Atlantian Posted Jan 18th 2010 7:04PM]

@meepmeep your delusional (i told you not to drink the kool aid)