A job listing briefly posted on LinkedIn appears to confirm last month's report of an "X-Phone," now in development at Motorola, that represents Google's biggest effort to date to inject life into the struggling device maker.
The listing, first noticed by Android Headlines, advertises for a senior product manager for the X-Phone. The listing describes the project as a "next-generation smartphone platform."
The ad is now listed as "no longer active" on LinkedIn. But a companion listing on Motorola's Web site is nearly identical, with only the references to the "X-Phone" and next-generation smartphone platform scrubbed out.
"Motorola Mobility, owned by Google, is breaking through the barriers that separate people from the things they love," the ad says. "We're designing technology that connects seamlessly so consumers have the best content at their fingertips, every second of every day. TV, talk, text, email and web surfing - we're putting people at the center of it all. It's what we call a Motorola Powered future and we're making the devices that do more, so peop... [Read more]
by Casey Newton via CNET
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