We can’t call it another feather in Moto’s hat but the handset vendor is really keen on experimenting with various mobile operating systems. Motorola has joined the Google-driven Open Handset Alliance, which means it will offer devices based on the Android platform. Motorola currently peddles in phones running on as many as three major operating systems including Windows Mobile, Symbian UIQ, Linux Java and will now add a fourth in the form on Android. This indicates the company’s desperation to churn out a winner from somewhere. But Motorola is not alone as companies like LG and Samsung are also working on a multiple-OS portfolio with devices running on Windows Mobile, Symbian S60 and now, Android.

The addition of Motorola to the OHA, makes Android available on three of the ‘big five’ handset vendors in adition to HTC. With speculation about Sny Ericsson toying with the idea of an Android drviven XPERIA device, that would leave Nokia as the sole mahor vendor not to be a part of Google’s dream. The Finnish giant is heard to be developing its own Linux-based mobile OS that will be first tested in its next generation Internet Tablet that will also have HSDPA capability