Android co-founder Andy Rubin to start his own smartphone company

The company initially planned to create an operating system for digital cameras but after careful consideration, it was determined that the market simply wasn’t large enough and instead made a decision to build a mobile OS. Considering Rubin’s history with Android, though, you can color us intrigued by today’s report.

Android original co-founder Andy Rubin is working on a smartphone company of his own, says a report. But in 2013, he moved to the robotics division within Google and Sundar Pichai became the Android boss.

The Information claims that Andy Rubin is trying to launch “an Android phone company”. So far playground has come up with $300 million with Rubin being more vigorous about the venture in the capital community, ever since he got into partnership at Redpoint Ventures in April.

It’s not clear whether Rubin will be seeking to build the company himself – or just looking to financially support it (and mentor it) via Playground Ventures.

It remains to be seen what kind of smartphones Andy Rubin’s company eventually goes for. Because of this, though, it would afford Rubin and his potential device company the opportunity to think of ways to innovate and offer up a device that would be compelling and follow the trends of the industry. He was quoted as saying that Mobile isn’t going away and in the future some form of AI will be the next computing platform.

Right now, it’s believed that the investment into the Android phone startup – name unknown – has focused on building a core team.