Motorola Mission Statement:

"We are a global communications leader powered by a passion to invent and an unceasing
commitment to advance the way the world connects. Our communication solutions allow people,
businesses and governments to be more connected and more mobile."

Motorola Vision Statement:

"Our history is rich. Our future is dynamic. We are Motorola and the spirit of invention is what drives
us."

Background of Motorola
Motorola, was an American multinational telecommunications company founded on September
25, 1928, based in Schaumburg, Illinois. After having lost $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009, the
company was divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola
Solutions on January 4, 2011.[5] Motorola Solutions is generally considered to be the direct
successor to Motorola, as the reorganization was structured with Motorola Mobility being spun
off.[6] Motorola Mobility was sold to Google in 2012, and acquired by Lenovo in 2014.[7]

Motorola designed and sold wireless network equipment such as cellular transmission base

stations 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,
computer telephony, and high-definition television. Its business and government customers
consisted mainly of wireless voice and broadband systems (used to build private networks), and
public safety communications systems like Astro and Dimetra. These businesses (except for set-
top boxes, wireless networks, and cable modems) are now part of Motorola Solutions. Google
sold Motorola Home (the former General Instrument cable businesses) to the Arris Group in
December 2012 for US$2.35 billion.[8]

Motorola's wireless telephone handset division was a pioneer in cellular telephones. Also known

as the Personal Communication Sector (PCS) prior to 2004, it pioneered the "mobile phone"
with DynaTAC, "flip phone" with the MicroTAC, as well as the "clam phone" with the StarTAC in
the mid-1990s. It had staged a resurgence by the mid-2000s with the Razr, but lost market share
in the second half of that decade. Later it focused on smartphones using Google's open-
source Android mobile operating system. The first phone to use the newest version of Google's
open source OS, Android 2.0, was released on November 2, 2009 as the Motorola Droid (the
GSM version launched a month later, in Europe, as the Motorola Milestone).

The handset division (along with cable set-top boxes and cable modems divisions, which would
later be sold to Arris Group) was later spun off into the independent Motorola Mobility. On May
22, 2012, Google CEO Larry Page announced that Google had closed on its deal to acquire
Motorola Mobility.[9] On January 29, 2014, Page announced that, pending closure of the deal,
Motorola Mobility would be acquired by Chinese technology company Lenovo for US$2.91 billion
(subject to certain adjustments).[10] On October 30, 2014, Lenovo finalized its purchase of
Motorola Mobility from Google.[11]