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Motorola, Moto Hub, retail stores

Sudhin Mathur, Managing Director, Motorola Mobility India, Country Head, Lenovo MBG India; Jan Huckfeldt, Vice President, Global Marketing & Communications, Lenovo MBG and Motorola Mobility; Jim Thiede – Senior Director Product Marketing, Motorola Mo

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	Motorola was an American telecommunications company founded in 1928 by Paul and Joseph Galvin as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation. The company&rsquo;s first product was a battery eliminator, a device that converted direct current to alternating current, allowing battery-powered radios to function through household electricity. Since early years, the company worked on radio communication devices. In 1940, it introduced a pair of two-way radio communication products for the US police and military personnel.</div>
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	In 1962, Motorola also started supplying radio communications gear for the unmanned Mariner and manned Gemini space programmes. The company&rsquo;s transponder was in 1969 used in America&rsquo;s first Moon exploration mission, Apollo, where astronaut Neil Armstrong&rsquo;s message from the moon was carried over a Motorola-designed device.</div>
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	Besides radio communication products, Motorola also produced wireless network equipment and home and broadcast network products, such as set-top boxes, digital video recorders, high-definition television, etc. Motorola&#39;s wireless telephone handset division was a pioneer in cellular telephones. The company introduced the concept of mobile phones, flip phones and clam phones in the mid-1990s. It was also among the first to build smartphones with Google&#39;s open-source Android mobile operating system. The first phone with the Android OS was released on November 2, 2009, as the Motorola Droid.</div>
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	In 2011, the company was divided into two independent public entities &mdash; Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions. Motorola Mobility, which included handset division, was sold to Google in 2012. In 2014, Motorola Mobility was acquired by Chinese technology company Lenovo for $2.91 billion. As part of the deal, Google retained a majority ownership of the Motorola Mobility patent portfolio, while Lenovo received a licence to the portfolio of patents and other intellectual property.</div>

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