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Hot on the heels of AT&T rejecting the Android based HTC Lancaster, the phone titan has now rejected cold two more Android phones in the final stages of development, both of these from Motorola, saying they were displeased with the final results. It is unclear if they were unhappy with the hardware, the Android software, the integration of the two, or any combination of the above.

It is interesting to note however that Ed Hansberry at Information Week is saying that both Moto Android handsets had originally been prototyped using Windows Mobile. Perhaps these are phones which were originally meant to be WinMo handsets but were flipped to Android when Moto became desperate chose to develop more Android offerings instead of Windows Mobile (Et Tu, Brutus?). If so, the integration or Android deployment may be less then what AT&T was hoping for.

Either way, this leaves AT&T without an Android phone after three tries, all rejected for mysterious reasons by the carrier giant. Am I just paranoid, but does anyone else see Apple’s hand behind this somewhere?

It is also a massive blow to Motorola, who has put all it’s eggs in an Android basket at this point. Moto has a major Android event coming up in conjunction with Verizon and T-Mobile. If they fail to make an impression there, then this really could be the end of Motorola, Hail Mary play with Android or no.

(Sources: Information Week, TheStreet)

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