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Motorola Corp. (NYSE: MOT) is apparently planning on a rather large piece of its wireless business being wrapped around Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android operating system. The wireless company already has 50 employees working on Android development and will be boosting that number to 350 before long. Since Motorola is one of the larger members of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), the open-source software movement meant to support all things Android, this comes as no surprise.

Perhaps Motorola wants some revenue from software development for the mobile space instead of selling profit-challenged hardware? The company has had a rough time of things recently, but after spinning off its handset division soon, Motorola wireless hardware and software may be on the path to re-inventing themselves.

But can Google's vaunted wireless platform challenge the entrenched iPhone, Windows Mobile and Symbian space? Together, those three platforms control a huge swath of the smartphone market. Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), which now owns all of Symbian, has the lion's share of smartphone software sales globally. The newer iPhone 3G has launched in dozens of countries and continues to sell very well. Let's not count out Windows Mobile. Even Google may find it hard to take large pieces of market share away from these players. But at least Motorola is only placing a small bet here on Android's success. Three hundred fifty employees isn't too many, is it?

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