Windows Phone Thoughts: Motorola to use Microsoft Software

Tom Lynch, chief of Motorola's handset division, reveals what I believe is the hottest news this year. Motorola will eventually start using Microsoft software in their handsets. Mr Lynch says that Linux and Java will be its preferred platform, but he says he expects to use Microsoft based software as well. I wrote in the "Motorola Rocks n' Rolls" post in January about eight new Motorola handset models to be released this year. This is the kind of broad hardware innovation that I have asked for to evolve around Microsoft software. Very, very cool.

"Motorola last week launched the first handset based on Linux and java software and Lynch said this would be its preferred platform for a future generation of smarter phones, which will connect to email, play games and have other data applications. "Linux/java is our core, our flagship product, but we'll also do other ones," he said, adding he expects to use Microsoft software too. "And we don't do that grudgingly. We understand they're going to be a major player." Read the entire article...

A couple of days ago frog design inc. reported that they have "teamed with Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT), a global leader in providing integrated communications and embedded electronics solutions, to create a family of fashionable wearable devices representing the next generation of personal computing and wireless communications." The press release contains a couple of cool pictures of prototype products. Looks like Windows CE to me! Read the press release...

For more pictures of these new Motorola products, go and visit the excellent Phone Scoop.