Not only Sony Ericsson indicated their interested in using Google’s Android platform, but also Motorola. The American company has even confirmed to assemble a 350 team of Android developers, while Nokia might follow.

Motorola is one of the original members of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), the main backers of Android. Other significant OHA members are HTC, LG and Samsung. The OHA was established on 5 November 2007, with 34 members including mobile handset makers, application developers, some mobile carriers, chip makers, and led by Google.

The Android news sounds interesting if we talk about Motorola. Can the Android recipe save Motorola?

Eric Zeman of Information Week described:

Motorola’s troubles the past 18 months have been well publicized. Sales have bottomed out, many of the company’s senior managers have left or been replaced, and the company hasn’t had a bona fide hit in what feels like forever. If there’s any company that needs to a shot in the arm, it is Motorola.

Enter Android. Since Android is — for the most part — free for handset manufacturers to adopt, it can keep development costs to a minimum. That’s important for Motorola. Motorola also happens to be a founding member of the Open Handset Alliance, so we know it has more than a passing interest in the new mobile operating system from Google.

Electronista wrote:

Motorola currently uses the Linux-based MOTOMAGX and Symbian-based UIQ operating systems on some phones but has so far had little success in using these to spur new sales and avoid losing market share. The company’s smartphones have so far been limited to the more business-oriented Windows Mobile and have suffered versus the iPhone, Nokia’s Nseries hardware, and other offerings with friendlier interfaces.

Beyond the camp, Nokia, who is not an OHA member, is said to already have an Android team mingling around. If the Android really takes off, it’s make sense Nokia won’t only keep Symbian as their single handset platform.

[Source: PCWorld, Information Week]