TECH COMPANY
JANUARY 25, 2022
Great Innovations Of Motorola Company
These are the great innovations of Motorola Company that introduced many advanced technology devices to the world since their beginning.
Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Illinois, United States. After having lost $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009 the company split into two companies : Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011. Motorola Mobility is now a subsidiary of Chinese multinational technology company, Lenovo.
Motorola designed and sold wireless network equipment such as cellular transmission and signal amplifiers. Motorola’s home and broadcast network products included set-top boxes, digital video recorders and network equipment used to enable video broadcasting and high-definition television.
Motorola was also pioneering the cellular phones in the early stages. It launched the Dyna TAC, Micro TAC flip phone and the Star TAC in the mid 1990s. It had successor by the mid 2000s with RAZR but lost market share in the second half of that decade.
This handset division was later spun off into the independent Motorola Mobility. On May 22, 2012 Google announced that they had closed on its deal to acquire the company. Then on October 30, 2014 Google sold the Motorola Mobility to Chinese company, Lenovo for US$ 2.91 billion. So far the other company, Motorola Solutions, is commonly considered to be the direct successor to Motorola, Inc.
Motorola started in Chicago, Illinois as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in 1928 when two brother Paul V. and Joseph Galvin purchased the bankrupt Stewart Battery Company’s battery-eliminator plans.
In June 1930, Motorola was able to demonstrate an inexpensive car radio that could be installed in most vehicles. This product became a success and able to keep the company in business.
About the origin of its name, Paul wanted a brand name for Galvin Manufacturing new car radio unit and created the name “Motorola” by linking “motor” (for motorcar) with “ola” (from Victrola). They sold the first Motorola branded radio on June 23, 1930 to H.C. Wall of Fort Wayne, Indiana and the brand became so well known that Galvin Manufacturing Corporation later changed its name to Motorola, Inc.
In 1940, Motorola introduced the first hand-held walkie talkie to the world. During the World War II, the company produced the hand-held AM SCR-536 radio for Allied communication. Motorola went public in 1943 and became Motorola, Inc. in 1947. The current “batwing” logo was introduced in 1955, created by Morton Goldsholl a Chicago graphic designer.
Neil Armstrong spoke the famous words from the Moon on a Motorola transceiver in 1969. In 1980, Motorola’s next generation 32-bit microprocessor, the MC68000 revolutionized the computer industry, powering units for Apple, Commodore, Atari, Sun and Hewlett Packard.
In September 1983, Motorola introduced the DynaTAC 8000X telephone, the world’s first commercial cellular device. By 1998, cellphones provided the two thirds of Motorola’s gross revenue.
In 1991, Motorola demonstrated the world’s first prototype of digital cellular system and phones using GSM technology in Germany. In the same year, Motorola along with Apple and IBM formed the AIm alliance chich help created the PowerPC CPU.
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