Expect more such deals with other players to happen this year: Motorola plans to launch mobile phones with a Google search icon on handsets…this is a three-year deal. This is the first such hardware deal Google has done..it has a deal with T-mobile to be its default Web home page..
Motorola is hoping the one-click Google-carrying phones will win it increased orders from mobile operators which have struggled to increase data revenues, especially on 3G mobile networks that allow high-speed web access. ..the company said that consumer trials with Google-carrying phones had shown that the power of the search giant’s brand had significantly increased access to the web using mobiles.
Motorola plans to launch the phones with Google on by the end of Q1.
Related: T-Mobile Sheds Walled Garden; Starts With Google
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