History Motorola in ten steps

The legendary company that created a walkie-talkie, a cell phone, several lines of microprocessors in demand in the market, invented the most stylish clamshell of all time – the RAZR V3, a pioneer of new designs and ideas, and much more – Motorola. I suggest you look at the history of the legendary company in a shortened version. So – ten steps of history Motorola.

1. Few people know that Motorola appeared long before it created its first cell phone. The company was founded in 1928 by brothers Paul and Joseph Galvin, called Galvin Manufacturing and was engaged in the production of power stabilization systems (Battery Eliminator).
2. The name Motorola came later and was originally not a company name, but a product line. When Galvin Manufacturing created the car receiver, Paul Galvin decided to come up with a nice name for it, he took a snippet of the word 'Motorcar' and added the ending 'ola', which was popular in those years for various names. In 1930, the company sold its first car radio Motorola, and after a while, Galvin Manufacturing itself was renamed Motorola.

Motorola 5t71 is the first car radio from Galvin Manufacturing

1. Motorola made the world's first portable radio – the army transceiver Motorola SCR-300, carried in a backpack. The device was introduced in 1940 and was used by the military, and for its capabilities received the comic name 'Walkie-Talkie' ('walker-talkie').
2. The world's first commercial portable cell phone was also created by the company Motorola. The device weighing almost 800 grams, huge size, with a battery that lasted for 8 hours, was released on March 6, 1983 and received the name Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. The cost of the device was cosmic at that time 4,000 US dollars, and, despite this, the phone was in great demand in the States. To understand – in 1984 the company Apple introduced its first Macintosh computer – Macintosh 128K, it cost $ 2,500. If we very roughly translate the prices of that time into the present, then the price Motorola of DynaTAC 8000X would be about 16,000 US dollars today, or about a million rubles.

Motorola DynaTAC 8000X – World's First Commercial Portable Cell Phone

1. For some time the company Motorola has been developing and manufacturing microprocessors. The first computers Apple (including the Macintosh line) were based on the Motorola 68000 processors, they were also used in the Commodore, Amiga and some others.

Apple Lisa – a computer Apple built on the basis of a microprocessor Motorola of the 68000 series

1. The end of the 1990s is the time from which it is possible to count the appearance of the first cell phones familiar to us under the brand Motorola. In 1997, for example, the company released the legendary model Motorola StarTAC 75. The screen contained two lines of 12 characters each, up to 10 dialed numbers, 5 answered and 5 missed calls were stored in memory, and the device also had a battery for 500mAh and cool design. That's all you need to know about this model now.
2. Then there were many glorious phones, from the Timeport line to the prominent representatives of the 'take and modify everything yourself with firmware and mods' genre represented by the C and E-series – Motorola С350, C380, E398 and so on. And in 2004 Motorola she created MPx200 and MPx220 – the dream of all amateurs Windows. Communicators in the clamshell form factor simply blew up the mind and brain with their capabilities, while remaining outside as if they were ordinary clamshells. In Russia, these models received a second life some time after sales, when Euroset sold them at a huge discount and the devices literally flew in a short time.
3. In 2004, the company introduced the RAZR V3 clamshell Motorola – one of the world's most legendary and popular cell phones. If you create a hall of fame for mobile devices, the RAZR V3 will definitely be in the top ten in it. It is a landmark, pivotal, iconic in many ways, a device that has changed the way cell phones are designed and constructed, from a scary but necessary item to a stylish and desirable accessory. You can praise the RAZR V3 for a very long time, and all this will be true. Motorola is the RAZR V3.

Legendary Cell Phone Motorola RAZR V3

1. If you describe the history of modern Motorola in one phrase, then we can say that everything was fine before Motorola RAZR V3 and with it, and that everything became bad then. Yes, Motorola made a lot of wonderful smartphones after – the chic, not like everything else, the DROID line and today remains the brand's calling card already under the wing Lenovo, but for one reason or another nothing is the same successful, like the RAZR V3, the company could no longer do. Probably because 'RAZR' only happens once in a lifetime, and Motorola had it.
2. In 2012, the company Motorola (mobile division) was bought by the search giant Google, ditched and ditched, selling in 2014 the Chinese one Lenovo. Unlike Google, which often buy companies precisely for the above purpose, Lenovo has a positive experience in supporting and developing the acquired assets, two large divisions IBM (ThinkPad and x86 Server Business) – a clear example of this. So far, not everything has been successful, but Lenovo – the company is big, they have enough money, they also have experience, so there is a hope that the Moto brand will at least not fade away and will develop, and then the hell is not joking, maybe Lenovo Moto will have their own 'RAZR' too.