This is big news! Google is buying Motorola Mobility, the mobile phone division of Motorola for an estimated $12.5 billion.
Motorola was one of the first handset manufacturers to use Android in their handsets and has been somewhat successful in the US market.
In an announcement over at the Google blog, Google CEO Larry Page writes:
The combination of Google and Motorola will not only supercharge Android, but will also enhance competition and offer consumers accelerating innovation, greater choice, and wonderful user experiences. I am confident that these great experiences will create huge value for shareholders.
I look forward to welcoming Motorolans to our family of Googlers.
We should be seeing a dedicated Google+Motorola Android phone very soon. This will also mean the next Google Nexus phone will be a Motorola handset and we will say goodbye to HTC and Sammy or LG as a potential carrier.
This is also probably the reason why that come-back to the Philippine market has been put on indefinite delay.
The other division, Motorola Solutions, will be retained by the company (we featured some of their products here before).
Probably this is the reason why Samsung hired Steve Kondik.
naghihintay ako magmura ung samsung phones tapos biglang binili ng Google ung Motorola… another year of wait to wait and see ano ang difference ng android phones made by google and made by samsung :)
Wow it’s going to be Google/Motorola vs Apple vs Nokia/Microsoft vs Samsung
why is everyone here celebrating?
didn’t you know before this buying business by el-Goog, Motorola almost killed the Android ecosystem by trying to sue other Manufacturers over their infringed patents
Motorola the Android killer.. well almost..
“This will also mean the next Google Nexus phone will be a Motorola handset and we will say goodbye to HTC and Sammy or LG as a potential carrier.”
Sir Abe, any other article to support this statement? I’d be happy to see the next Nexus with Motorola, better build quality compared to Samsung.
But here’s one:
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/rubin-motorola-won-t-be-automatic-nexus-brand-991933
*GOOGLERS
*MOTOROLANS
???sound painfully cheap.
with this deal, their next phone will be nicknamed:
MoGo
GoMo
MotoGoo
GooMoto
lol.
wat about
Moogle…
Gootorola..LOL
Google Mo! LOL
It’s a smart move from Google. $12B might seem expensive, but I think the patents alone would be worth that much, if the Nortel patents will be used as yardstick. The Motorola patents will also more likely refers to handsets and the like, unlike Nortel’s which I think will be more on networks.
Eventually, I could see Google selling the handset part of the business and keeping the patents, with a perpetual license to whoever buy the handset business.
Now, Google could dare all comers to sue them… except maybe Oracle…