Motorola Developing Android-Powered Social Networking Phone

Motorola to unveil new Android Social Networking Smartphon,  The mobile versions of MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter on a Motorola Android based cell phone.

Google’s Android mobile and wireless software is creating quite a stir, spurring Motorola to hire an application development expert who can work on a special gadget.
That gadget is an Android-based smart phone optimized for social networks such as Facebook or MySpace. The move comes as social network use via mobile phones is growing.

Motorola appears to be taking quite a different approach compared to the T-Mobile G1. The Android-based handset will actually act as a mobile hub catering to all your social networking needs. It will give you complete and really quick access to the ever so popular Twitter, Flickr, Wordpress blogs, Facebook, Digg, and much more.

An eagle-eyed reader of The Android Guys blog spotted this job posting and saw fit to e-mail it on Over The Air’s favorite blog concerning all things Android. It reads:

“As a Senior Staff Interaction Designer, you will be responsible for leading and actively participating in the concept, design, documentation and development of user interfaces for our mobile products including our new Android Social Networking SmartPhone. You’ll lead brainstorming and work sessions, usability and innovation reviews and other forums of design development. In addition to your primary responsibility in the delivery of great design, you will also be expected to mentor other designers, bringing your personal strengths to the rest of the team.”

It’s one thing for Motorola to develop a phone based on Android. Given its membership status in the Open Handset Alliance, it is almost expected. But to call it a Social Networking Smartphone is something else altogether.

Speculation that Motorola would be developing an Android phone was based on the fact that the company is a member of the Open Handset Alliance. T-Mobile USA is launching the HTC G1, running on Android, on Oct. 22.