Motorola wants in on smartwatch game too, will launch one this year
The company says it will it also expand Moto Maker to Europe and Mexico in the second quarter.
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BARCELONA, Spain--Motorola Mobility maybe a lame duck waiting for Lenovo to take the reins, but that doesn't mean it can't make a little noise.
Motorola, for now still a unit of Google, said on Tuesday that it will build a smartwatch for later this year. The product will 'solve real user problems,' and be treated more like an item of jewelry, and will be announced in a few months, according to Rick Osterloh, who manages the Moto X.
'Right now, there are non wearable products you actually want to wear, and it's because they're all extremely ugly,' Osterloh said at an event at Mobile World Congress on Tuesday.
Osterloh said that it expand its Moto Maker feature, which lets consumers customize their own version of its flagship Moto X smartphone, to Europe and Mexico, starting in the second quarter. In Europe, the UK will get the Moto Maker first..
Last month, Lenovo agreed to acquire Motorola from Google in a deal valued at nearly $3 billion. The acquisition allows Lenovo to accelerate its plans to expand into more mature markets such as the US. Google, meanwhile, is able to offload a burden on its balance sheet and eliminate the appearance that it was playing favorites.
In the meantime, Motorola is in a bit of a holding pattern as it awaits the closing of the deal.
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