to work on its smartphone OS development team with the goal, he said in a Facebook update, of "making Android more awesome."

Google has been trying to lock Android down more, lately, in addition to buying Motorola for reasons that are cloudy but might include the need to stave off potential patent-trolling from Motorola if Google didn't come through with some love.

The acquisition is expected to produce a huge shift in the smartphone market, though no one is quite sure what that effect will be.

Nokia put out an announcement yesterday predicting the . That seems like a chancy prediction, however, .

While Samsung's gesture was a grand one, HTC is sticking with smaller ones that follow through on promises it made earlier in the year to deliver bootloader unlock tools for many of its most popular Android phones.