(Credit: Androidguys.com)
Search-engine giant Google has announced it will buy mobile phone manufacturer Motorola for £7.7bn ($12.5). This could allow Google to be more competitive in the Smartphone market and steal some of it's rivals' share - watch out Apple.
Apple is the biggest smartphone producer in the world, accounting for 18.5% of all handsets shipped. However, Android - which is the OS designed by Google - is the most widely used operating system used in smartphones.
By acquiring Motorola Google will now have access to Motorola's 17,000 patents and 7,500 pending patents. I think this may have been the real reason Google actually bought Motorola - to defend the producers using its Android OS against legal battles over infringement issues.
We may see an all out patent war between the superpowers Apple, Google and Microsoft. The companies have been sueing each other non-stop over infringements and Google buying an extra 17,000 patents will boost it's power in the market. We shall wait and see...
