The smartphone was developed in 2011 at Arris in the
NE Atlanta Metro by 500 US electronics engineers. They incorporated camera and
internet functions and testing of finished units for high speed automated
manufacturing. See Below.
Motorola Mobility LLC is an American consumer electronics and telecommunications company owned by technology firm Lenovo Group Limited. The company primarily
manufactures smartphones and other mobile
devices running the Android operating system
developed by Google.
Motorola
Mobility was formed on January 4, 2011, after a split of Motorola Inc. into two separate companies, with Motorola Mobility assuming
the company's consumer-oriented product lines (including its mobile phone business, as well as its cable modems and pay television set-top boxes), and Motorola Solutions assuming the company's
enterprise-oriented product lines.
In
May 2012 Google acquired Motorola Mobility for US$12.5 billion; the main intent
of the purchase was to gain Motorola's patent portfolio, in order to protect other Android vendors from
litigation. Under Google, Motorola increased its focus on the entry-level
smartphone market, and under the Google ATAP division, began development on Project Ara—a platform for modular smartphones with interchangeable
components. Shortly after the purchase, Google sold Motorola Mobility's cable
modem and set-top box business to Arris Group.
Google's
ownership of the company was short-lived. In January 2014, Google announced
that it would sell Motorola Mobility to Chinese consumer electronics firm Lenovo for $2.91 billion. The sale, which excluded ATAP and all
but 2,000 of Motorola's patents, was completed on October 30, 2014. Lenovo
disclosed an intent to use Motorola Mobility as a way to expand into the United States smartphone market. In August 2015, Lenovo's existing smartphone
division
was subsumed by Motorola Mobility, and in November 2016, Lenovo announced that
it would discontinue its existing, self-branded smartphone lines in favor of
Motorola-branded devices going forward.
Comments
Google’s
sale of Motorola Mobility to the Chinese in 2014 explains how China took over
this US-developed technology for $2.91 billion.
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