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Motorola Building Up 350-Person Android Team. Nokia Also Sniffing Around.

Now that Google and T-Mobile have introduced the Android-equipped G1, other handset manufacturers and carriers are getting geared up their very own versions.

Motorola is increasing its Android team from 50 to 350 people.  Nokia and Verizon may also be recruiting developers.

According to TechCrunch:

There is a certain inexorable logic behind all the interest in Android.

1. It is a more capable mobile Web computer than anything other than the iPhone.
2. It is a very appealing development environment for app creators—and just like on the PC, apps will drive adoption.
3. Most importantly, as an open-source OS, manufacturers don’t have to pay a licensing fee to whoever controls the OS. Given the razor-thin margins in the cell phone business, that alone is reason for manufacturers to embrace Android (with the exception of Nokia, which owns Symbian). But you can see why Motorola might see Android as the key to its recovery.

I think this is an early indication of how big Android is going to be.  It may be Apple battling Google for the dominant position in the mobile market.

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