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Motorola was an American telecommunications company that was divided into two independent companies in 2011 - Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions. Motorola Mobility was later acquired by Lenovo in 2014 after experiencing significant losses from 2007 to 2009. Motorola was a pioneer in cellular phone technology and developed many "firsts" including the DynaTAC, the first flip phone, and the clamshell StarTAC phone. It focused on Android smartphones before its handset division was spun off into Motorola Mobility, which was later acquired by Google and then Lenovo.

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Motorola was an American telecommunications company that was divided into two independent companies in 2011 - Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions. Motorola Mobility was later acquired by Lenovo in 2014 after experiencing significant losses from 2007 to 2009. Motorola was a pioneer in cellular phone technology and developed many "firsts" including the DynaTAC, the first flip phone, and the clamshell StarTAC phone. It focused on Android smartphones before its handset division was spun off into Motorola Mobility, which was later acquired by Google and then Lenovo.

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Motorola, Inc.

(/motrol/[4]) is an American multinational telecommunications company


based in Schaumburg, Illinois, United States. After having lost $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009, the
company was divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola
Solutions on January 4, 2011.[5] Motorola Solutions is generally considered to be the direct
successor to Motorola, Inc., as the reorganization was structured with Motorola Mobility being
spun off.[6] Motorola Mobility was acquired by Lenovo in 2014.
Motorola designed and sold wireless network equipment such as cellular transmission base
stations and signal amplifiers. Motorola's home and broadcast network products included set-top
boxes, digital video recorders, and network equipment used to enable video broadcasting,
computer telephony, and high-definition television. Its business and government customers
consisted mainly of wireless voice and broadband systems (used to build private networks), and,
public safety communications systems like Astro and Dimetra. These businesses (except for settop boxes and cable modems) are now part of Motorola Solutions. Google sold Motorola Home
(the former General Instrument cable businesses) to the Arris Group in December 2012 for
US$2.35 billion.[7]
Motorola's wireless telephone handset division was a pioneer in cellular telephones. Also known
as the Personal Communication Sector (PCS) prior to 2004, it pioneered the "mobile phone"
with DynaTAC, "flip phone" with the MicroTAC as well as the "clam phone" with the StarTAC in
the mid-1990s. It had staged a resurgence by the mid-2000s with the RAZR, but lost market
share in the second half of that decade. Later it focused on smartphones using Google's opensource Android mobile operating system. The first phone to use the newest version of Google's
open source OS, Android 2.0, was released on November 2, 2009 as the Motorola Droid (the
GSM version launched a month later, in Europe, as the Motorola Milestone).
The handset division (along with cable set-top boxes and cable modems) was later spun off into
the independent Motorola Mobility. On May 22, 2012, Google CEO Larry Page announced that
Google had closed on its deal to acquire Motorola Mobility.[8] On January 29, 2014, Page
announced that pending closure of the deal, Motorola Mobility would be acquired by Chinese
technology company Lenovo for US$2.91 billion (subject to certain adjustments).[9] On October
30, 2014, Lenovo finalized its purchase of Motorola Mobility from Google. [10]

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