Motorola News
Motorola is now two separate operations, each with two businesses – Motorola Mobility has handsets and home devices such as set tops, and Motorola Solutions builds wireless and enterprise networks. Motorola launched in 1930 and came to fame making car radios. Later it entered the handset and chip industries, departing chips with the sale of Freescale in 2003. Since 2006 when Motorola was the second largest handset vendor in the world, it has fallen from a $42 billion business, to $19 billion, just before the split in mid-2010 with much of the fall coming in handsets. Motorola made the mistake of trying to compete at the low end of the handset market in emerging economies. In 2010/11 Motorola Mobility is seen as a recovering handset business focused on smart phones. It appointed Sanjay Jha, previously the respected Qualcomm COO, to turn the handset business around and his focus on Android as the company’s core handset OS, has breathed life back into it – handset shipments grew for the first time in years when in Q1 2011 it shipped 9 million handsets.
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16 February, 2012
Good news for the most part though a few devices are getting left behind
Motorola Defy Mini heading to the UK late March
15 February, 2012
Budget device destined for British shores next month
Motorola Motoluxe heading to UK by the end of Feb
9 February, 2012
"Ultra-vogue smartphone" coming soon with affordable price tag and low-end specs
Droid 4 confirmed for February 10
8 February, 2012
Carrier names day at last for Motorola's latest 4G LTE handset
Droid 4 expected on February 9
2 February, 2012
Latest rumour pegs next Thursday as possible day for handset's release
Defy Mini stops by FCC, may be headed to AT&T
31 January, 2012
Motorola's latest budget handset gets the green light for the US
Little joy for Google in Motorola's results
30 January, 2012
Motorola Mobility shows only modest smartphone growth while Apple soars, and merger costs cause Q4 loss
Droid 4 may launch for $199.99 on a contract
27 January, 2012
Still not available but when it does arrive looks set for $100 discount
Yet more US lawsuits added in Apple-Android war
26 January, 2012
Motorola Mobility files suit in Florida against iPhone 4S and iCloud, while Apple looks to step up pressure on HTC
Motorola Xoom gets to taste Ice Cream Sandwich
18 January, 2012
Last year's Gingerbread flagship is among the first slates to get update
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