• The Financial Times (UK), Wednesday, August 4, 2010 12:52 PM

Motorola and Verizon Wireless are building a TV-focused tablet computer that runs on Google's Android operating system, the Financial Times is reporting. The iPad challenger is expected to rely on Verizon's FiOS digital pay-television service. Driven by the success of Apple's iPad, "The tablet market is seen as the next battle ground in the mobile devices war that has pit myriad device makers and Microsoft, Google and Research in Motion against Apple," Financial Times reports.

According to FT.com, The Motorola tablet's integration with TV is seen as a key competitive advantage against rival developers. By contrast, ahead of the iPad's launch this year, Apple failed to convince TV programmers to either lower the price of TV show sales or sell a package of the top shows that was seen undercutting traditional TV pay models. Still, "By working with Verizon Wireless, which owns a 25 per cent share of the US television market where it operates and a 29 per cent share of broadband customers, Motorola will not be seen as upsetting the lucrative business of pay TV."

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