As several smartphone makers are working aggressively to form cooperation agreements with Google for an Android 3.0 tablet PC, Motorola is currently the company's priority choice, Digitimes Research senior analyst Mingchi Kuo has said citing upstream component makers.
Kuo pointed out that cooperation would be similar to Google's G1 smartphone, under which the two firms and their telecom partners would all have the rights to label their names on the device. Verizon is expected to be the distributor of the device in the telecoms channel.
Motorola's tablet PC will feature the Tegra 2 platform from Nvidia and a 10.1-inch panel supplied by Sharp. The panel has a lower brightness than that of Apple's iPad, but is thinner in size. The tablet PC will be manufactured by Motorola and is set for mass production by the end of 2010, according to Kuo.
Further, Kuo has noted that Google is said to have been heavily involved in setting the specifications of the Android 3.0 tablet, including its user interface, to ensure a good user experience. The device is expected to ship over two million units in 2011.
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