Motorola plans to launch a device with Google later this year that will be sold directly to consumers, the same strategy we saw with the Nexus One.
According to TheStreet.com, the move was revealed in a conference call earlier today with Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha, who said the to-be-named device would be one of 20 smartphones the company releases this year. At this point, it’s not clear which carrier, if any, will offer a subsidy on the device.
The move doesn’t come as much of a surprise -- when Google debuted the Nexus One with HTC earlier this month, they indicated it wouldn’t be the only phone in which they worked directly with a manufacturer and sold the device direct to consumers via the Web.