Motorola Mobility

Motorola Mobility LLC, marketed and commonly known as Motorola (stylized in all-lowercase as motorola), is an American consumer electronics manufacturer primarily producing smartphones running Android software and other wearable accessories. Motorola Mobility is headquartered at Merchandise Mart in Chicago, Illinois, which houses all research and development and where its products are designed (with the exception of its tablets). The company has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Chinese company Lenovo since 2014, which handles device manufacturing and supply chain. Motorola Mobility was formed on January 4, 2011 after a split of the original Motorola Inc., founded in 1928, 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, while the enterprise and radio communication division continues as Motorola Solutions, a legal successor of the original company. In May 2012, Google acquired Motorola Mobility for US$12.5 billion; the main intent of the purchase was to gain Motorola Mobility's patent portfolio, in order to protect other Android vendors from litigation. Shortly after the purchase, Google sold Motorola Mobility's cable modem and set-top box business to Arris Group, and products increasingly focused on entry-level smartphones. Under the ATAP division, Google also began development on Project Ara. In October 2014, Google sold Motorola Mobility for $2.91 billion to Lenovo, which excluded ATAP and most of the patents. Lenovo's existing smartphone division was subsumed by Motorola Mobility. The company currently sells a range of smartphones, mainly consisting of the high-end Edge series, the Razr series of foldables, the Moto G series, as well as a number of other series and products depending on region, all running Android with an interface called "Hello UI". As of 2025, its flagship device is the Motorola Razr 60 Ultra.