BEIJING, Oct. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- Motorola plans to use Android, Google's royalty-free operating software, to run its mobile phones, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

    The world's third-largest maker of mobile phones is dumping three of its mobile operating systems to focus on Windows Mobile, Android and P2K OS, according to the report.

    Nokia uses just two operating systems for most of its handsets while Motorola has more than a half a dozen.

    Focusing on Android will allow Sanjay Jha, who took over as Motorola's co-chief executive in August, to reduce work on other systems and eliminate "thousands" of jobs, the paper said. A Motorola spokeswoman declined to comment.

    The paper said Motorola is hoping that using an open-source platform will spur outside developers to come up with applications that would allow Motorola to compete with Apple's iPhone and Research In Motion's BlackBerry.

    Android is the operating system for the T-Mobile G1 phone which went on sale this month and is Internet search king Google's first venture into the mobile market.

    (Agencies)