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.
Motorola hit with EU antitrust complaint
Google must be wondering whether its patent-driven purchase of Motorola Mobility was really worth the grief. The handset unit has been slapped with a European Union antitrust complaint which alleges i ...
- Judge awards royalties victory to Microsoft
- Google agrees not to seek product bans
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Motorola Razr i variant confirmed for China
19 November, 2012
Handset expanding its global reach, albeit with a facelift, after going on sale in US and Europe
Judge squashes Apple case
7 November, 2012
Apple's attempt to set a limit on RAND royalties backfires
Electrify M on its way to US Cellular next week
2 November, 2012
Carrier's version of Droid Razr M announced
Motorola scores patent point against Microsoft
8 October, 2012
German court rules that Google's handset arm does not infringe one of Windows giant's Android patents
Droid Razr HD and Razr Maxx HD face delays
1 October, 2012
Antenna problems are apparently the cause, still set for holiday release
Razr i priced on and off contract in the UK
24 September, 2012
Handset arriving in October, looking very affordable
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