Motorola has launched a consumer-facing site in public beta to showcase the content available on its handsets, which seems to be simply chasing after Nokia (or maybe it just feels it is now safer to sell content). The site is dubbed Comprehensive Solutions Catalog, which I hope is a working title and not the planned brand name, and is a place for the MOTODEV community to sell its products. This is not really a content portal—there’s no unified billing system or special download provisions, if people want to buy a product they click on a link which takes them to the developers site…so all the content is already available online/off-portal. The big benefit is collecting new releases for each handset in one place, and Motorola seems to have a mailing list set up for each device (I haven’t tested this, it could be a generic mailing list, which would be less useful). (release)

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