Faced with a sea of red ink and a bare product pipeline, Motorola is pinning hopes to new models that will run on Google’s Android OS, pegged for New Zealand release this year.

Motorola today said it would refocus on the high-end of the cellphone market, developing handsets that will run on Android this year (making Motorola the first A-list phone maker to back Google’s open source mobile OS), and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile (which already powers the Q) in 2010.