According to Chinese analyst Sun Chang Xu, the highly anticipated smartphone that was being worked on by Google and Motorola, the X Phone, has hit a snag. Apparently, according to this analyst, Google has decided it's just not into the X Phone anymore and has abandoned the project. Google isn't the love-them-and-leave-them type, but it has reportedly dropped the X Phone into Motorola's lap to work on alone.
According to the latest rumor, it appears that the X Phone did not live up to the "level of innovation" Google was originally anticipating the X Phone would have. There have been endless rumors about what kinds of features the upcoming smartphone would have. The X Phone has never been officially acknowledged, but the amount of press the unannounced smartphone has seen was unprecedented. This kind of speculation and coverage is usually reserved for an upcoming Apple product, which almost guarantees the success of the X Phone.
The X Phone was originally rumored to debut this month at Google's Google I/O Developer's Conference. The latest rumors have the X Phone being released as an AT&T exclusive in August. If Google isn't involved, as the analyst claims, it could result in potentially poor sales of the smartphone. The X Phone has been billed as the next big thing from Google and Motorola, but without Google, it's just another DROID or RAZR.
This latest rumor about Google dropping the X Phone and pushing it off on Motorola sounds hard to believe. Would Google really work on a project and get this far into the game on a smartphone that is expected to be a game changer, only to abandon it before its release? Like all rumors, take this one with a grain of salt.
